Quotes

"The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness."

 

"Contentment, then, is the product of a heart resting in God. It is the soul’s enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding."

 

"The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness."

 

"Those, then, who declare that a bare believing of the Gospel is all that is needed to ensure heaven for any sinner are "false prophets," liars and deceivers of souls. It also requires to be pointed out that saving faith is not an isolated act but a continuous thing."

 

"Faithful people have always been a marked minority"

 

“But why should we not place implicit confidence in God and rely upon His word of promise? Is anything too hard for the Lord? Has His word of promise ever failed? Then let us not entertain any unbelieving suspicions of His future care of us. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not so His promises.”

 

“An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam’s descendents.”

 

“Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but in the blesser Himself.”

 

"Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make up."

 

“When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.”

 

“The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.”

 

"No relaxation unto the duty of holiness is granted by the Gospel, nor any indulgence unto the least sin. The Gospel is no less holy than the Law, for both proceeded from the Holy One."

 

"It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors."

 

“True liberty is not the power to live as we please—but to live as we ought.”

 

“The Bible is no lazy man’s book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the recesses of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker. No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.”

 

“No sinner was ever saved by giving his heart to God. We are not saved by our giving—we are saved by God’s giving.”