'If lustful looking be so grievous a sin, then those who dress and expose themselves are not less, but even more guilty." -Arthur Pink.
Is he not a cruel man who takes a job as a pilot for a ship full of passengers, but does not even know how to use a compass? Far worse is the preacher who earns his living by wrecking souls because he is too lazy to study his Bible.
—William Gurnall
His name is faithfulness, and I know it, for he has never forsaken me though my troubles have multiplied upon me. -
Charles Spurgeon
The gospel breaks hard hearts and heals broken hearts.
Charles Spurgeon
The serving of God is the most excellent kind of action that man is capable of.
Jonathan Edwards
"O Spirit of the living God, breathe upon us, that we may live yet more abundantly, and then shall we be chosen vessels to bear the name of Jesus to others." -
Charles Spurgeon
"Satan knows all our weak points." -
Mary Winslow.
“You must be saved as a sinner or not at all. You must give up all claims of merit and all reliance on what you can do, or else you never can be saved.” —
Charles Spurgeon
We mistake our religion if we look upon it only as a system of notions and a guide to speculation. No, it is a practical religion, that tends to the right ordering of life. —
Matthew Henry, on Romans 12:1
"Is there not a sick one at home? Take Jesus home to her. Is there no sorrow at home? Entreat your Lord to come home to help you in your distress." -
Charles Spurgeon
Faith believes the promise; but that which faith rests upon in the promise is the person of Christ - Thomas Watson
"The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word." -
Lady Jane Grey.
Can there be a greater heartache in this life than to see your own child running full speed toward hell, and know that you were the one who outfitted him for the race? Oh, do your best while they’re young and in your constant care, to win them to God. —
William Gurnall
The Christian life begins (positional holiness) in the gospel and continues (progressive holiness) in the gospel. Begin in Christ. Continue in Christ.
Dustin Benge
Christ loved us when we were infinitely below him, and shall not we love him who is infinitely above us?
Jonathan Edwards
"We have an old proverb that charity must begin at home, let me shape it into this,—piety must begin with yourself. Before you ask salvation for your family, lay hold upon it for yourself." - Charles Spurgeon
"Worship disinfects us from egotism." -
William Sangster.
Just standing on the sidelines and cheering other saints to victory is not enough. You too must run the race that is set before you. —
William Gurnall
Those lingering torments that Christ suffered would have overcome all merely human love. There never was any love of one man to another so strong that it would have been carried through such a kind of death.
Jonathan Edwards
When you see men of power and intellect using their talents against God, weep for their souls. —William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 1:140
"I would sooner work with James and John for twenty shillings a week than with swearers and drunkards for sixty. You who reside with really consistent Christians are much favored, and ought to become eminent Christians." -
Charles Spurgeon
That principle of heart that is the greatest beauty of man is holiness, a principle of love for God.
Jonathan Edwards
"No man who is full of himself can ever truly preach the Christ who emptied Himself." -
J. Sidlow Baxter
"The best of us need instruction. It is unwise for Christian people to be so busy with Christ's work that they cannot listen to Christ's words. We must be fed, or we cannot feed others." -
Charles Spurgeon
"Upon a life, I did not live, Upon a death, I did not die; Another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity." -Horatius Bonar.
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
Martin Luther
Satan and your old nature may lie down together, but sin and grace never will. —
William Gurnall
It is the comprehensive compendium of the character of true Christians, that 'they are walking by faith, and not by sight' - William Wilberforce
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