We must not lose our reverential fear of God in His familiarity with us. —
William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 3:199
"We can tell you, dear hearers, that God’s words of promise are very, very sweet; but we can convey to you no sort of idea of how great that sweetness is. Oh, taste for yourselves, and see that the Lord is good!" - Charles Spurgeon
"Of all the crowns of kings in this world, none of them compare with Jesus' crowns of thorns." — Charles Spurgeon
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer. Richard Sibbes
If our sins are as high as the mountains, the ocean of His atonement is like Noah's flood, covering the utmost summit. Charles Spurgeon
He is no Christian who believes not that faith in the person of Christ is the spring of all evangelical obedience. —John Owen, Works 1:305
"I am a friend of peace. I declare my sentiments of truth, but do not offer to force them down people's throats." -
John Newton.
"The Son of God had no relationship to us until he chose to assume one out of his infinite compassion." — Charles Spurgeon
"If there be joy, if there be peace, if there be rest, if there be bliss, to be found in anything else, all that, and more than that can be found in a higher degree in the teachings of God’s word, and in the blessings of the covenant of grace." - Charles Spurgeon
How unreasonable to expect that Christ should make the soul of man happy any otherwise than as his own. Jonathan Edwards
"You must find joy in God, or you will not find joy at all." — Charles Spurgeon
Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you. Charles Spurgeon
"Every genuine Christian has been saved, is now being saved, and will yet be saved." -
Arthur Pink.
Since God has a Son of his own, and such a Son, how wonderful God’s love is in adopting us! We needed a Father, but He did not need sons. —
Thomas Watson, Body of Divinity, 234-235
“On the cross, God unleashed his holy fury upon our sin-bearer and substitute, Jesus Christ, who became for us a propitiation by his blood’.”
"We know some people who love God’s promises, but they do not care much about his precepts. If God speaks a word of grace, they like that; but if it is a word of command, they do not care about that." - Charles Spurgeon
Be not contented to have right 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 of the love of Christ in your minds, unless you can attain a gracious 𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 of it in your hearts. —
Puritan John Owen, Works 1:338
"If you do not love the Bible, you certainly do not love the God who gave it to us." —
Charles Spurgeon
There was nothing attractive to be seen in us. All was repulsive. We had nothing amiable or any way desirable in us. All was abominable to his pure eyes. But Christ has infinite loveliness to win and draw our love.
Jonathan Edwards
The wisdom of God will always be foolishness to natural men. - George Whitefield
"Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible." — Charles Spurgeon
Can anything be more foolish, sottish, and stupid, than for men to put off the consideration of the eternal concernment of their souls for one hour, being altogether uncertain whether they shall live another or not? —John Owen, Works 1:429
Christ in the darkness of a womb.
Christ in the darkness of the garden.
Christ in the darkness of the cross.
Christ in the darkness of the tomb.
God often performs His most marvelous acts away from watching eyes.
"[…] if there is anything that could cheer a man, God’s word could comfort him better than any other consolation." - Charles Spurgeon
"That minister will never hit hearts who shoots over the heads."
-Thomas Watson.
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