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Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.

Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.

If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.

The love of Christ to sinners is the very essence and marrow of the Gospel.

Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.

Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us.

A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.

The surest mark of true conversion is humility.

The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.

Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.

Whatever others around you think, don't you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.

The Christian who keeps their heart diligently in little things shall be kept from great falls.

Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.

Do something, by God's help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.

A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.

Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

People are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world.

The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.

One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the
world.

Hell itself is truth known too late

Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: break up your fallow ground, sow not among thorns.

The only way to be really happy, in such a world as this is to be ever casting all our cares on God.

True Christians delight to read the Scriptures, because they tell them about their beloved Savior.

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

It is not possible to say too much about Christ. But it is quite possible to say too little about hell.

Unbelief about the existence and personality of Satan has often proved the first step to unbelief about God.

Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.

Be very sure, if you would train children for heaven, they are hints that ought not to be lightly set aside.

We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.

Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.

Laughter, ridicule, opposition and persecution are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.

Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.

The true Christian delights to hear something about their Master. They like those sermons best which are full of Christ.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.

It is a true saying of good Archbishop Leighton: 'The way of sin is down hill; a man cannot stop when he would.

There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world.

Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.

There is no fickleness about Jesus: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.

Good feelings and desires are useless if they are not accompanied by action.

We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.

The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.

Until we give God our heart, we give Him nothing at all.

There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

All the earth [will] know how evil a thing it is to despise the Son of God.

Prayer and temptation, the Bible and meditation, make a true minister of the gospel.

We should no more tolerate false doctrine that we would tolerate sin.

Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.

Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps

Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone

In walking with God, a man will go just as far as he believes, and no further.

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.

A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.

There are not a few people to whom I would far rather speak about their own sins, than tell them their children had done anything wrong.

The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.

If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.

Where there is no heart, there may be lip-work and tongue-work, but there is nothing that God listens to, - there is no prayer.

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer ... He may sometimes keep us long waiting ... but He will never send us empty away.

Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord ... He waits quietly for the King.

How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?

Fear puts an end to openness of manner; fear leads to concealment; fear sows the seed of much hypocrisy, and leads to many a lie.

If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.

A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.

No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.

I am one of those old-fashioned ministers who believe the whole Bible and everything that it contains.

There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.

Justification is the act of God about us and is not easily discerned by others. Sanctification is the work of God within us and cannot be hid

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.

Yes: I repeat it this day. I know no effectual remedy for the love of self, but a believing apprehension of the love of Christ.

Let us daily strive to copy our Saviour's humility.

The best of men are men at best

A sin ... consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God

A right heart leans on Christ, hangs on Christ, builds on Christ and cleaves to Christ.

The heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin.

It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.

A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.

Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins.

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

The chief end for which Christ lived and died: To provide eternal redemption for sinners.

Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands.