Hugh Binning — A Treatise of Christian Love

The bond of creation was great, but the tie of redemption is greater. God gave a being to man, that is enough. But God to become a miserable man for man, that is infinitely more. Fellow creatures, that is sufficient for…

It looks upon the Bible as an oracular book,—as the Word of God in such a sense that whatever it says God says,—not a book, then, in which one may, by searching, find some word of God, but a book which may be frankly app…

Self-denial is the ornament and beauty of a creature, and therefore humility is an ornament and clothing; and honour upholds the humble spirit. But God's self-seeking, and seeking of his own glory, is his eminent excelle…

There must be an emptying before there can be a filling; and when the heart is turned upside down, and everything is turned out that is contrary to God, then the Spirit will come, just as He did in the tabernacle, and fi…

Sin will not only be striving, acting, rebelling, troubling, disquieting, but if let alone, if not continually mortified, it will bring forth great, cursed, scandalous, soul-destroying sins.

He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, doth but half his work.