"When we all stand before the judgment seat of Christ, we will have our true motives revealed."
“When we Christians behave badly or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.” - C.S. Lewis
"I believe that the secret of success for all our ministries lies very largely in the simple charm of concentrating their intellectual force on the one work of preaching. I have tried to make my ministry a ministry of exposition of Scripture." - Alexander MacLaren
"You have come to look into things as well as upon things— a look at Christ saves; but oh, it is the look into Christ that wins the heart’s love and holds it fast and binds us to him as with fetters of gold." - Charles Spurgeon
The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.
Charles Spurgeon
If you will have heaven, you must have Christ, who is all in all. And if Christ, you must accept his service as well as his sacrifice. No holiness, no happiness. Take the whole offer, or take nothing. —William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 1:239
You will find that the men who lived nearest to God and had the most power with Him, were those who confessed their sins and failures.
God created the world to communicate with Himself, not to receive anything.
Jonathan Edwards
“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different ...” - C.S. Lewis
"Do not read the Bible because you want to find texts for sermons, read it because it is the food that God has provided for your soul." -
Martyn Lloyd-Jones.
"We never outgrow Christ, but we grow to need him more and more." —
Charles Spurgeon
When you see what your sins cost Christ, it should produce in you a godly sorrow and hatred for sin. —
William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 1:256
"God hath not put away sin without a sacrifice and hath not winked at sin nor waived his justice in order to indulge his mercy, but he remains just as he ever was— the same thrice holy God who will by no means spare the guilty." - Charles Spurgeon
"When the Spirit of God blesses an affliction to us, it is one of the Saviour’s illuminated books out of which we learn something more of the Father’s name, and consequently come to love him better: for that is the thing Christ aims at." - Charles Spurgeon
If God doth such great things to teach us, we ought not to do little to learn. —
Jonathan Edwards
“Indeed, if prayer does not make a man leave sin, sin will make him leave prayer.” —
Thomas Watson, The Doctrine of Repentance, 68.
God, through the word & His Spirit, calls forth sinful men, subject to condemnation & under the dominion of sin, out of the defilements & corruptions of this world, to obtain a supernatural life in Christ through repentance & faith, that they may be united in Him
-Arminius
True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person – Jesus Christ.
Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages. -
Thomas Watson
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