The fact is, we sometimes read Scripture, thinking of what it ought to say, rather than what it does say.
- Charles Spurgeon
God is an infinite inexhaustible fountain of joy; and to have him, is to have all. -
Thomas Watson
If you had to split up the Bible, go into hiding, and were only allowed one book from the OT and one book from the NT to take with you which ones would you take?
Isaiah and Romans
"Beloved, if you would ever reign with Christ when you die, He must reign in you while you live." -Edmund Calamy.
Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people. -A.W. Pink
Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. -
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
"Genuine humility is a very gracious fruit of the Spirit." - Charles Spurgeon
A life lived by listening to God speaking is not one that excludes our own judgment.
Hearing God (p. 225).
“[God] uses the unlikely and the unimportant to accomplish his greatest purposes, even sending the Redeemer of the world to be born as an infant to an insignificant young girl from a common family in an inglorious birthplace.”
— Stephen Charnock, Divine Providence, 39.
Of all the doctrines of the Bible, none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's Sovereignty. -
There is a limit to affliction. God sends it and God removes it.… It is not hard for the Lord to turn night into day. He that sends the clouds can easily clear the sky.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Martin Luther
"A revival to be permanent must be a matter of growth and the result of much holy effort, longing, pleading and watching." - Charles Spurgeon
There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans -Thomas Watson
"There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: 'Mine!'" — Kuyper
"I find it odd that he who thinks so highly of what the Holy Spirit teaches him thinks so little of what the Holy Spirit teaches others also." - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands.
Martin Luther
The Pharaohs, the Herods, and the Neros have labored in vain to put down the church. The true Church outlives them all.
A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats. -C.H. Spurgeon
The Rapture is the light, our blessed hope 1 Thessalonians 5:4-5 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
"It's because God's wrath is real, that his mercy is relevant". — Alistair Begg
"O Holy Spirit! thou, and thou alone, workest wonders in the human heart, and thou comest from the Father and the Son to do the Father’s purposes and to give the Son to see of the travail of his soul." - Charles Spurgeon
We are not so far from Him but that He can see our tears, and hear the faintest whisper when we lift our hearts to Him in prayer.
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