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The doctrines of original sin, election, and effectual calling, final perseverance, and all those great truths which are called Calvinism 'though Calvin was not the author of them, but simply an able writer and preacher…
[Jesus] did not say, ' Simon, son of Jonas, fearest thou me.' He did not say, ' Dost thou admire me? Dost thou adore me?' Nor was it even a question concerning his faith. He did not say, ' Simon, son of Jonas, believest…
I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it…
That same spirit which makes us love the praise of men makes us dread the threats of men. You cannot be pleased with the adulation of mankind without becoming fearful of tour censure.
Whether you are Calvinists, or Arminians, or anything else, dear friends, be first and chiefly Christians—Christians—following Christ, receiving him as the great Expositor to you of God, and of the great truths of revela…
We are so little, that if God should manifest His greatness without condescension, we should be trampled under His feet; but God, who must stoop to view the skies, and bow to see what angels do, turns His eye yet lower,…
You have not read till you understand the spirit of the matter.
Say to your soul' Come, soul, wake up: thou art not now about to read the newspaper; thou art not now perusing the pages of a human poet to be dazzled by his flashing poetry; thou art coming very near to God, who sits in…
Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!
Ministers should be stars to give light,not clouds to obscure. In some cases the text is as clear as a mirror, till the preacher's breath bedims it.
We have all things and abound; not because I have a good store of money in the bank, not because I have skill and wit with which to win my bread, but because the Lord is my shepherd.
Do have a mind of your own. This is not just a spiritual matter only, but one which concerns ordinary manliness. I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture.
Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction in earthly things. They will exhaust themselves in the deceitful delights of sin, and, finding them all to be vanity and emptiness, they will become very perplexed and dis…
There must be knowledge of God before there can be love to God: there must be a knowledge of divine things, as they are revealed, before there can be an enjoyment of them.
When John Knox went upstairs to plead with God for Scotland, it was the greatest event in Scottish history.
The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.
There are no crown-bearers in heaven that were not cross-bearers here below.
I must take care above all that I cultivate communion with Christ, for though that can never be the basis of my peace - mark that - yet it will be the channel of it.
When you speak of heaven, let your face light up... When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.
He cannot be a glorious God unless His people ultimately are a glorified people.
He was inspired, and yet he wants books!He had been preaching for thirty years, and yet he wants books!He had seen the Lord, and yet he wants books!He had a wider experience than most men do, and yet he wants books!He ha…
There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands, accept whatever he prescribes, and do whatever He bids. We feel that nothing can be wr…
If thou dost continually draw thine impulse, thy life, the whole of thy being from the Holy Spirit, without whom thou canst do nothing; and if thou dost live in close communion with Christ, there will be no fear of thy h…
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Debarred from public worship, David was heartsick. Ease he did not seek, honour he did not covet, but the enjoyment of communion with God was an urgent need of his soul; he viewed it not merely as the sweetest of all lux…
The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it.
The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.
True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.
Humility makes us ready to be blessed by the God of all grace.
A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles.
There is no glory in being a featherbed soldier, a man bedecked with gorgeous medals, but never beautified by a scar, or ennobled by a wound. All that you ever hear of such a soldier is that his spurs jingle on the pavem…
I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes 'that every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit, as well as the sun in the…
But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
He who does not hate the false does not love the true; and he to whom it is all the same whether it be God's word or man's, is himself unrenewed at heart.
I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, ' He is very clever, a fine preacher, a man of genius, a born orator.' Is cleverness to make fals…
Of the seven days God gave to us in a week, He said to take six, and use them for our business. Yet we think that we must have the seventh as well. It is like someone who, while traveling, comes upon a poor man in distre…
Give yourself to reading.'... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.
The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains, proves that he has no brains of his own.
I bear my testimony that there is no joy to be found in all this world like that of sweet communion with Christ. I would barter all else there is of heaven for that. Indeed, that is heaven. As for the harps of gold and t…
The Word of God will be to you a bulwark and a high tower, a castle of defense against the foe. Oh, see to it that the Word of God is in you, in your very soul, permeating your thoughts, and so operating upon your outwar…
Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them!Here they find their law and profits,their judges and chronicles,their epistles and revelations.
Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.
it seemed as if hell were put into His cup; He seized it, and at one tremendous draught of love, He drank damnation dry.
The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart.
Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.
A sheep in the midst of wolves is safe compared with the Christian in the midst of ungodly men.
The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there' (Ez. 35:10)
Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.
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The doctrines of original sin, election, and effectual calling, final perseverance, and all those great truths which are called Calvinism 'though Calvin was not the author of them, but simply an able writer and preacher…
[Jesus] did not say, ' Simon, son of Jonas, fearest thou me.' He did not say, ' Dost thou admire me? Dost thou adore me?' Nor was it even a question concerning his faith. He did not say, ' Simon, son of Jonas, believest…
I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it…
That same spirit which makes us love the praise of men makes us dread the threats of men. You cannot be pleased with the adulation of mankind without becoming fearful of tour censure.
Whether you are Calvinists, or Arminians, or anything else, dear friends, be first and chiefly Christians—Christians—following Christ, receiving him as the great Expositor to you of God, and of the great truths of revela…
We are so little, that if God should manifest His greatness without condescension, we should be trampled under His feet; but God, who must stoop to view the skies, and bow to see what angels do, turns His eye yet lower,…
You have not read till you understand the spirit of the matter.
Say to your soul' Come, soul, wake up: thou art not now about to read the newspaper; thou art not now perusing the pages of a human poet to be dazzled by his flashing poetry; thou art coming very near to God, who sits in…
Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!
Ministers should be stars to give light,not clouds to obscure. In some cases the text is as clear as a mirror, till the preacher's breath bedims it.
We have all things and abound; not because I have a good store of money in the bank, not because I have skill and wit with which to win my bread, but because the Lord is my shepherd.
Do have a mind of your own. This is not just a spiritual matter only, but one which concerns ordinary manliness. I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture.
Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction in earthly things. They will exhaust themselves in the deceitful delights of sin, and, finding them all to be vanity and emptiness, they will become very perplexed and dis…
There must be knowledge of God before there can be love to God: there must be a knowledge of divine things, as they are revealed, before there can be an enjoyment of them.
When John Knox went upstairs to plead with God for Scotland, it was the greatest event in Scottish history.
The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.
There are no crown-bearers in heaven that were not cross-bearers here below.
I must take care above all that I cultivate communion with Christ, for though that can never be the basis of my peace - mark that - yet it will be the channel of it.
When you speak of heaven, let your face light up... When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.
He cannot be a glorious God unless His people ultimately are a glorified people.
He was inspired, and yet he wants books!He had been preaching for thirty years, and yet he wants books!He had seen the Lord, and yet he wants books!He had a wider experience than most men do, and yet he wants books!He ha…
There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands, accept whatever he prescribes, and do whatever He bids. We feel that nothing can be wr…
If thou dost continually draw thine impulse, thy life, the whole of thy being from the Holy Spirit, without whom thou canst do nothing; and if thou dost live in close communion with Christ, there will be no fear of thy h…
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Debarred from public worship, David was heartsick. Ease he did not seek, honour he did not covet, but the enjoyment of communion with God was an urgent need of his soul; he viewed it not merely as the sweetest of all lux…
The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it.
The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.
True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.
Humility makes us ready to be blessed by the God of all grace.
A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles.
There is no glory in being a featherbed soldier, a man bedecked with gorgeous medals, but never beautified by a scar, or ennobled by a wound. All that you ever hear of such a soldier is that his spurs jingle on the pavem…
I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes 'that every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit, as well as the sun in the…
But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
He who does not hate the false does not love the true; and he to whom it is all the same whether it be God's word or man's, is himself unrenewed at heart.
I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, ' He is very clever, a fine preacher, a man of genius, a born orator.' Is cleverness to make fals…
Of the seven days God gave to us in a week, He said to take six, and use them for our business. Yet we think that we must have the seventh as well. It is like someone who, while traveling, comes upon a poor man in distre…
Give yourself to reading.'... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.
The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains, proves that he has no brains of his own.
I bear my testimony that there is no joy to be found in all this world like that of sweet communion with Christ. I would barter all else there is of heaven for that. Indeed, that is heaven. As for the harps of gold and t…
The Word of God will be to you a bulwark and a high tower, a castle of defense against the foe. Oh, see to it that the Word of God is in you, in your very soul, permeating your thoughts, and so operating upon your outwar…
Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them!Here they find their law and profits,their judges and chronicles,their epistles and revelations.
Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.
it seemed as if hell were put into His cup; He seized it, and at one tremendous draught of love, He drank damnation dry.
The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart.
Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.
A sheep in the midst of wolves is safe compared with the Christian in the midst of ungodly men.
The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there' (Ez. 35:10)
Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.