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The established church of the town of Mansoul has the Devil for its archbishop. Sin has enclasped our nature as a boa constrictor encircles its victim, and when it has maintained its hold for twenty, forty, or sixty year…
Now I will give the poor sinner a means of detecting Satan, so he may know whether his convictions are from the Holy Spirit, or merely the bellowing of hell in his ears. In the first place, you may always be sure that th…
There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.
It is not possible that you will repent unless you are aware of your sin; it is not likely that you will look to Christ unless you first know what it is for which you are to look to him. Therefore, I pray you, set apart…
Dream of yoking a gnat with an archangel, and then imagine that you can help your Lord in the work of salvation.
Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.
it is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good like a medicine; it must never be used as the food of the individual.
When a man is willing to find an excuse for being God's enemy he need never be at a loss. He who hath to find a fact may find some difficulty; but he who would forge a lie may sit at his own fireside and do it.
The wide awake man seizes opportunities or makes them, and thus those who are widest awake usually come to the front.
He who has two grounds of trust is lost! He who relies upon twosalvations, and cannot say of Christ, ' He is all my salvation and all my desire,'that man is not only in danger of beinglost, but he is already condemned; b…
Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty…
A certain man placed a fountain by the wayside, and he hung up a cup near to it by a little chain. He was told some time after that a great art-critic had found much fault with its design. ' But,'said he, 'do many thirst…
Whatever you may know, you you cannot be truly efficient ministers if you are not apt to teach. You know ministers who have mistaken their calling, and evidently have no gifts for it: make sure that none think the same o…
In God's case, if He had said in the infinite sovereignty of His absolute will, I will have no substitute, but each man shall suffer for himself, he who sinneth shall die, none could have murmured. It was grace, and only…
A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will.
When we cannot trace God's hand, we must simply trust His heart.
My friends, I do not believe it is preaching Christ and him crucified, to give people a batch of philosophy every Sunday morning and evening, and neglect the truths of this Holy Book. I do not believe it is preaching Chr…
If I had to sum up the gospel I should have to tell you certain facts: Jesus, the Son of God, became man; he was born of the virgin Mary; lived a perfect life; was falsely accused of men; was crucified, dead, and buried;…
carve your name on hearts and not on marble.
It is a doctrine, as I believe, taught us in Holy Writ, that when a man is saved by divine grace, he is not wholly cleansed from the corruption of his heart. When we believe in Jesus Christ all our sins are pardoned; yet…
The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back.
Christ is all in the entire work of salvation. Let me just take you back to the period before this world was made. There was a time when this great world, the sun, the moon, the stars, and all which now exist throughout…
That eye which sees anything good in the creature is a blind eye; that eye which fancies it can discern anything in man, or anything in anything he can do to win the Divine favor, is as yet stone blind to the Truth of Go…
My love of consistency with my own doctrinal views is not great enough to allow me knowingly to alter a single text of Scripture. I have great respect for orthodoxy, but my reverence for inspiration is far greater. I wou…
If the Lord Jehovah makes us wait, let us do so with our whole hearts; for blessed are all they that wait for Him. He is worth waiting for. The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trai…
Ought we not to look upon our own history as being at least as full of God, as full of His goodness and of His truth, as much a proof of His faithfulness and veracity, as the lives of any of the saints who have gone befo…
Thurough examination will do the healthy no harm, and it may bless the sick.
I would not give a penny for your love to the truth if it is not accompanied with a hearty hatred of error.
Come my, heart, up and away!
We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence comes the bread of your soul but from the cross? What is your joy but the cross? What is your delight, what is your heaven, but the Ble…
To preach the gospel is to state every doctrine contained in God's Word, and to give every truth its proper prominence.
Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into the very warp and woof o…
Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.
His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners after great lengths of time and then gives great favors and great privileges and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God!
Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to be a Christian--to bear the cross Christ gives me to carry and to follow in the footsteps of the great…
Repentance must dig the foundations, but holiness shall erect the structure, and bring forth the top-stone. Repentance is the clearing away of the rubbish of the past temple of sin; holiness builds the new temple which t…
Would to God we were all Christians who profess to be Christians, and that we lived up to what we profess. Then would the Christian shine forth 'clear as the sun, fair as the moon,'and what besides'why, 'amazing as an ar…
God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!
God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.
God's law is our pleasure when the God of the law is our God.-Commentary on Psalm 119
Ah! If you have a self-will in your hearts, pray to God to uproot it. Have you self-love? Beseech the Holy Spirit to turn it out; for if you will always will to do as God wills, you must be happy. I have heard of some go…
The evil heart which still remaineth in the Christian, doth always, when it is not attacking or obstructing, still reign and dwell within him. My heart is just as bad when no evil emanates from it, as when it is all over…
Love and self-denial for the object loved go hand-in-hand. If I profess to love a certain person, and yet will neither give my silver nor my gold to relieve his wants, nor in any way deny myself comfort or ease for his s…
Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.
The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last…
To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.
Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants, then pride will be impossible.
How often have you and I helped to keep sinners easy in their sin, by our inconsistency! Had we been true Christians, the wicked man would often have been pricked to the heart, and his conscience would have convicted him…
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The established church of the town of Mansoul has the Devil for its archbishop. Sin has enclasped our nature as a boa constrictor encircles its victim, and when it has maintained its hold for twenty, forty, or sixty year…
Now I will give the poor sinner a means of detecting Satan, so he may know whether his convictions are from the Holy Spirit, or merely the bellowing of hell in his ears. In the first place, you may always be sure that th…
There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.
It is not possible that you will repent unless you are aware of your sin; it is not likely that you will look to Christ unless you first know what it is for which you are to look to him. Therefore, I pray you, set apart…
Dream of yoking a gnat with an archangel, and then imagine that you can help your Lord in the work of salvation.
Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.
it is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good like a medicine; it must never be used as the food of the individual.
When a man is willing to find an excuse for being God's enemy he need never be at a loss. He who hath to find a fact may find some difficulty; but he who would forge a lie may sit at his own fireside and do it.
The wide awake man seizes opportunities or makes them, and thus those who are widest awake usually come to the front.
He who has two grounds of trust is lost! He who relies upon twosalvations, and cannot say of Christ, ' He is all my salvation and all my desire,'that man is not only in danger of beinglost, but he is already condemned; b…
Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty…
A certain man placed a fountain by the wayside, and he hung up a cup near to it by a little chain. He was told some time after that a great art-critic had found much fault with its design. ' But,'said he, 'do many thirst…
Whatever you may know, you you cannot be truly efficient ministers if you are not apt to teach. You know ministers who have mistaken their calling, and evidently have no gifts for it: make sure that none think the same o…
In God's case, if He had said in the infinite sovereignty of His absolute will, I will have no substitute, but each man shall suffer for himself, he who sinneth shall die, none could have murmured. It was grace, and only…
A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will.
When we cannot trace God's hand, we must simply trust His heart.
My friends, I do not believe it is preaching Christ and him crucified, to give people a batch of philosophy every Sunday morning and evening, and neglect the truths of this Holy Book. I do not believe it is preaching Chr…
If I had to sum up the gospel I should have to tell you certain facts: Jesus, the Son of God, became man; he was born of the virgin Mary; lived a perfect life; was falsely accused of men; was crucified, dead, and buried;…
carve your name on hearts and not on marble.
It is a doctrine, as I believe, taught us in Holy Writ, that when a man is saved by divine grace, he is not wholly cleansed from the corruption of his heart. When we believe in Jesus Christ all our sins are pardoned; yet…
The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back.
Christ is all in the entire work of salvation. Let me just take you back to the period before this world was made. There was a time when this great world, the sun, the moon, the stars, and all which now exist throughout…
That eye which sees anything good in the creature is a blind eye; that eye which fancies it can discern anything in man, or anything in anything he can do to win the Divine favor, is as yet stone blind to the Truth of Go…
My love of consistency with my own doctrinal views is not great enough to allow me knowingly to alter a single text of Scripture. I have great respect for orthodoxy, but my reverence for inspiration is far greater. I wou…
If the Lord Jehovah makes us wait, let us do so with our whole hearts; for blessed are all they that wait for Him. He is worth waiting for. The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trai…
Ought we not to look upon our own history as being at least as full of God, as full of His goodness and of His truth, as much a proof of His faithfulness and veracity, as the lives of any of the saints who have gone befo…
Thurough examination will do the healthy no harm, and it may bless the sick.
I would not give a penny for your love to the truth if it is not accompanied with a hearty hatred of error.
Come my, heart, up and away!
We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence comes the bread of your soul but from the cross? What is your joy but the cross? What is your delight, what is your heaven, but the Ble…
To preach the gospel is to state every doctrine contained in God's Word, and to give every truth its proper prominence.
Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into the very warp and woof o…
Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.
His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners after great lengths of time and then gives great favors and great privileges and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God!
Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to be a Christian--to bear the cross Christ gives me to carry and to follow in the footsteps of the great…
Repentance must dig the foundations, but holiness shall erect the structure, and bring forth the top-stone. Repentance is the clearing away of the rubbish of the past temple of sin; holiness builds the new temple which t…
Would to God we were all Christians who profess to be Christians, and that we lived up to what we profess. Then would the Christian shine forth 'clear as the sun, fair as the moon,'and what besides'why, 'amazing as an ar…
God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!
God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.
God's law is our pleasure when the God of the law is our God.-Commentary on Psalm 119
Ah! If you have a self-will in your hearts, pray to God to uproot it. Have you self-love? Beseech the Holy Spirit to turn it out; for if you will always will to do as God wills, you must be happy. I have heard of some go…
The evil heart which still remaineth in the Christian, doth always, when it is not attacking or obstructing, still reign and dwell within him. My heart is just as bad when no evil emanates from it, as when it is all over…
Love and self-denial for the object loved go hand-in-hand. If I profess to love a certain person, and yet will neither give my silver nor my gold to relieve his wants, nor in any way deny myself comfort or ease for his s…
Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.
The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last…
To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.
Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants, then pride will be impossible.
How often have you and I helped to keep sinners easy in their sin, by our inconsistency! Had we been true Christians, the wicked man would often have been pricked to the heart, and his conscience would have convicted him…