"Nothing here below can fill an immortal soul." — Charles Spurgeon
"If grace itself fails to save a man, nothing else can be done for him." — Charles Spurgeon
"If our faith is to grow, we must maintain constant communication with God." —
Charles Spurgeon "Christ has lighted us that we may enlighten the world." — Charles Spurgeon
"Our business is not to think of our own idea of what God should be, but to find out what God really is." — Charles Spurgeon "You may think that because you sin in secret, you shall escape punishment; but it shall not be so." — Charles Spurgeon "You should serve the Lord with intense delight, because of what he has done for you." — Charles Spurgeon "You can never pay back a millionth of what you owe to God." — Charles Spurgeon
"If we would serve God we must forget self." — Charles Spurgeon
God fully expects the church of Jesus Christ to prove itself a miraculous group in the very midst of a hostile world. -A.W. Tozer - Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong faith in His changeless love. -C.H. Spurgeon -
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion. -Jonathan Edwards - You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed -John Bunyan -
Look not to yourselves. You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked. Look simply unto Jesus. -J.C. Ryle - For when anyone separates faith from love, it is the same as though he attempted to take away heat from the sun. -John Calvin -
No man preaches his sermon well to others if he doth not first preach it to his own heart. -
John Owen - Two things are beyond dispute: God is sovereign, and man is responsible. -A.W. Pink -
Anything God has ever done, He can do now...Anything God has ever done for anyone, He can do for you. -A.W. Tozer -
The person who does not like self-examination may be pretty certain that things need examining -C.H. Spurgeon -
It is of God that Christ becomes ours...It is of God that we receive faith 2 be close 2 Him and have an interest in Him -Jonathan Edwards - He hath set a Saviour against sin; heaven against a hell; light against darkness; good against evil. -John Bunyan - “True grace fixeth the affections on spiritual things.” John Owen, 3:240
“Let us value the gospel more than ever.” Matthew Henry "There are no quick fixes when it comes to defeating anxiety. Fighting it will require reorienting your entire life to Christ. Your goal in fighting your anxiety should always be the worship of Him." - Paul Tautges. Anxiety: Knowing God's Peace, 8.
“Thus in both its precepts and penalty, the law of God in its most exacting requirements was fulfilled by Jesus. And He did this in our place as our representative and substitute.” - Jerry Bridges. The Discipline of Grace, 49.
He “humbled himself,” according to the Scriptures, “taking on himself the form of a slave.” He became like us so that we might become like him. The work of the Spirit seeks to transform us by grace into a perfect copy of his humbling. Cyril of Alexandria, FESTAL LETTER 10.4.98
"We are conquerors before we engage with the enemy, for our head Christ has once for all conquered for us the whole world." — John Calvin, Commenting on 1 John 2:13
"The only way the veil is taken away from our eyes is when we understand who Jesus is and what Jesus has done." —Alistair Begg
"When professing believers have a lot of 'God talk' but very little godly living, their behavior not only matches that of the society outside but undermines the witness of the church to the society outside." —Alistair Begg
"One of the things we need to learn to do is answer the questions that God is asking. There is tremendous profit in addressing ourselves to the things that the Bible raises." —Alistair Begg
Have you ever thought your plan was better than God's? Or maybe you just didn't want to do what He wanted you to do? What happens when you try to outmaneuver Him? Explore the answers to these questions when you listen to Truth For Life with Alistair Begg:
"The Bible is a compendium of sixty-six books written by over forty authors, over a period of hundreds and hundreds of years, and yet possessing a unity and a clarity of focus that points to its divine inspiration." —Alistair Begg
"We do not have the ability to speak, hear, understand, or have the Word applied to our lives without God's divine enabling." —Alistair Begg
"The fitting punishment for our crime was death—yet Jesus Christ, the Son of God, bore that punishment in our place and instead clothed us with the credentials necessary to live as His ambassadors and die as His friends." —Alistair Begg
Have you ever thought your plan was better than God's? Or maybe you just didn't want to do what He wanted you to do? What happens when you try to outmaneuver Him? Explore the answers to these questions when you listen to Truth For Life with Alistair Begg:
"When you abide in Christ through prayer, He promises to cause you to bear much fruit and to fill you with joy as you march on in the battle for His kingdom." —Alistair Begg
"The providences of God are seldom self-interpreting. We have to learn to say, 'I do not know, but I do know that God knows.'" —Alistair Begg
How can we make sense of God's providence in the face of personal trauma or worldwide tragedy? How do we trust His will and His way when suffering and devastation are unrelenting? Hear the answers to these questions on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg:
"Unnumbered comforts to my soul Thy tender care bestowed Before my infant heart conceived From whom those comforts flowed." —Joseph Addison, "When All Thy Mercies, O My God"
Remember Christian “It is no sign of humility, no mark of saintliness, to go into the presence of God doubting whether God is forgiving you.” —
Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Great Doctrines of the Bible, 1.355
Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it. —Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Works 2:8 Wisdom and spiritual understanding are poured into the minds of men from God, not for barren knowledge and idle speculation, but for the practice and exercise of holiness. —John Davenant, Geneva Series Commentaries: Colossians, Pg. 122 There is nothing that is so encouraging to holiness, so stimulating, so uplifting, as to know the 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘺 of my final salvation and glorification. —
Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Exposition of Romans 5:188 "The actions of God, in judgment and in mercy, are not constrained by our understanding of what's taking place." —Alistair Begg
“When you are arguing against God you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.” - C.S. Lewis
“He that believeth in me hath eternal life”: he does not say shall have, but hath. —John Davenant, Geneva Series Commentaries: Colossians, Pg. 151
"[…]we shall see him closely; we shall see him face to face; as a man talketh with his friend, even so, shall we then talk with Jesus." - Charles Spurgeon
The work that Christ came to do in the world, was to 'bear our iniquities,' and lay down his life a ransom for our sins. - John Owen
"A prayerless preacher is a powerless preacher." -A.T.Robertson
“God is with me in the darkness. He is with me in the pain. He is with me in my uncertainty. He is with me in the waiting. God will work everything in my life for His glory and my best interests.” —Nanci Alcorn
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
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. Martin Luther
Do not have Jesus Christ on your lips, and the world in your heart. —Ignatius of Antioch
Jesus will come suddenly, and when it happens it will be quick! He is coming to redeem His people. We ought not to be troubled now but have faith.
"When thy sword is reeking with the blood of thy sins, it will be a glory indeed to meet thy master, when thou art clothed with triumph, and then to "see him as he is."
- Charles Spurgeon
I'll trust in God's unchanging Word, till soul and body sever. For though all things pass away, His Word shall stand forever. Martin Luther
The secret to a good life is seeking the Lord. Chuck Smith
15 Rules for Success: - Be Kind - Be Useful - Be Strong - Be Loving - Never Quit - Never Fear - Stay Happy - Be Thankful - Stay Faithful - Stay Healthy - Be Honorable - Be Respectful - Stay Confident - Refuse To Lose - Remain Humble
“Saving grace makes a man as willing to leave his lusts as a slave is willing to leave his galley, or a prisoner his dungeon, or a thief his bolts, or a beggar his rags.” —Thomas Brooks
"The Gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough." - Martin Luther
“Human history is the long terrible story of a man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” - C.S. Lewis
There is no middle state, but all men are either the most wretched slaves under the dominion of Satan or translated into the kingdom of Christ. —
John Davenent, Geneva Series Commentaries: Colossians, Pg. 157
Was God to leave me, I should be a remarkable sinner. But redeeming love, I believe, will not let us go. - George Whitefield "And thou, dear brother, and thou, dear sister, who hast come to middle age, struggling with the toils of life, mixed up with all its battles, enduring its ills, thou art asking, it may be, shalt thou see him!" - Charles Spurgeon
“He is one of those holy men, one seldom meets with who do possess a single eye to God's glory.” — Hudson Taylor describing Rev William Burns.
And now you have an extraordinary opportunity, a day wherein Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open and stands in calling and crying with a loud voice to poor sinners. —
Jonathan Edwards, Sermon: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Lover of our souls The Lover of souls, the Light of life, the Desire of men’s hearts, is our Lord Jesus. He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. He tears down the walls of world religion, and with the Sacrifice of Himself, He is the Creator of the new.
He enjoys much who is thankful for a little. —William Secker, Puritan Remembrancer, Pg. 19
"The design of every biographer should be, not to exalt the man, but the grace of God displayed in him." -John Owen.
For he who requires that with his mouth which he disregards with his heart, does not pray to God, but mocks him. —John Davenant, Geneva Series Commentaries: Colossians, Pg. 115
"Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested." ―Lee Strobel
This is the character of a true servant of Christ. He endeavors to follow Christ in thought, word, and work. —George Whitefield
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