Spurgeon to a dying boy in his orphanage: “Jesus loves you. He bought you with His precious blood, and He knows what is best for you. It seems hard for you to lie here and listen to the shouts of the healthy boys outside at play...
“Christ is hated because sin is loved.” —Matthew Henry (1662-1714), on John 3:19
There is in God all that may draw forth both wonder and delight; there is a constellation of all beauties - Thomas Watson
"God is so well pleased with his only-begotten Son, that he takes pleasure in all who lay hold upon him as their one and only hope." — Charles Spurgeon
One mark of a man's true wisdom is his knowledge of his ignorance.
Charles Spurgeon
Hudson Taylor founded the China Inland Mission in 1865. When he died in 1905 there were 721 mission stations, 703 chapels, 150 schools, 118 churches, 825 missionaries, 1,152 Chinese helpers, 7 hospitals, 87 dispensaries, 101 centers for opium addicts, and 18,000 baptisms.
"It is the glory of the gospel that God does hear sinners, and that he does grant their requests." - Charles Spurgeon
"Truth is as essential to holiness as light is to vision." -
Charles Hodge.
"There is nothing little in God; his mercy is like himself; it is infinite. You cannot measure it." — Charles Spurgeon
Whatever else may be uncertain, God's care of believers is sure. -
Charles Spurgeon
That sin is exceedingly sinfully committed which we sit and prepare ourselves to commit. —Westminster Divine Joseph Caryl, on Psalm 36:4
"Never say that God heareth not sinners. Have you not read the parable of the publican who “would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner”?" - Charles Spurgeon
What does it mean to be “sealed” with the Holy Spirit (Eph 1:13)?
1. Security (Matt 27:66)
2. Ownership (Rev 7:3)
3. Authenticity (Rom 4:11)
The Holy Spirit locks in our faith, authenticates us in Christ, and protects us as God’s own people.
True love is fruitful. It always seeks the benefit and advantage of the beloved. And will procure it if there is an opportunity. But there is no other instance of love that in this respect is to be equaled or compared with Christ's dying love
Jonathan Edwards
"We are never more like the devil than when we lie." -Erwin Lutzer.
"Why, my Lord Jesus came into the world on purpose to hear sinners, — he came here to seek and to save sinners." - Charles Spurgeon
Above all, keep close to the throne of grace. - John Newton
The only proper Christian response to any theology, philosophy, ideology, psychology, or sociology, must be: “What does the Bible say?”
"Our God not only hears prayer but also loves to hear it." —
Charles Spurgeon
Let those who are in darkness come to God for light.
Jonathan Edwards
"Theology is speaking about God, through God, and to God." -
Herman Bavinck.
"A doctor, who never had any patients, would be a poor doctor, would he not? And Jesus Christ could not be a great Saviour if there were no great sinners, and he could not be a great Saviour if there were not a great many sinners to be saved." -
Charles Spurgeon
We don’t have to work up a frenzied worship performance to appease God; just come in faith.
Satan tells me I am unworthy, but I always was unworthy, and yet God has long loved me.
Charles Spurgeon
A believer may now come with more boldness into the presence of God, than Adam in the state of innocence. —William Bridge, Works 2:259
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