Horatius Bonar — Words to Winners of Souls

In all unbelief there are these two things, - a good opinion of one's self, and a bad opinion of God.

We must be more in earnest if we would win souls.

Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, an…

If Christ be not the Substitute, he is nothing to the sinner. If he did not die as the Sinbearer, he has died in vain. … He did not come to risk his life; he came to die!

If Christ be not the Substitute, he is nothing to the sinner. If he did not die as the Sinbearer, he has died in vain. … He did not come to risk his life; he came to die!

Its burden was not, "Do this or do that; labor and pray, and use the means;" - that is, law, not gospel: - but Christ has done all! He did it when he was "delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justificatio…