The law, though it have no power to condemn us, hath power to command us. (Thomas Adams)
The Law by which God rules us is as dear to him as the Gospel by which he saves us. (William Secker)
There are but three ways to fulfil the law: either in my own person here; or to suffer forever in hell; or to believe in and receive another that may do it for me. (Walter Cradock)
The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.…
‘Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter controntations still to come, to savour to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back; in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. …
The world has many religions; it has but one gospel. (George Owen)
Euangelion (which we call gospel) is a Greek word, and signifies good, merry, glad, and joyful tydings, that makes a mans heart glad, and makes him sing, dance, and leap for joy. William Tyndale (C. 1494-1536)
The Gospel is the greatest story ever told, about the greatest offer ever made, by the greatest person who ever lived. (D. J. Kennedy)
There are two things to do about the gospel – believe it and behave it.…
“Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!” (George Whitefield)
It is a true saying, that believers should not act for life, but from life. They must act as those that are not procuring life by their works, but as such who have already received and derived life from Christ, and act from the power and virtue received from him. …
It is the person who most knows himself liable to fall that will be most ready to overlook any offences from his fellow men. (Alexander Auld)
The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows, the more lowly he bends his head. (Thomas Guthrie)
‘The truly humble Christian does not inquire into his neighbour’s faults; he takes no pleasure in judging them; he is occupied wholly with his own.’ (Athanasius)
Richard Sibbes ‘was most eminent for that grace which is most worth, yet costs the least to keep it, viz.…
When Jesus came to earth he did not cease to be God; when he returned to heaven he did not cease to be man. (John Blanchard)
Jesus Christ is God in the form of man; as completely God as if he were not man; as completely man as if he were not God. (A.J.F. Behrends)
Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. (Phillips Brooks)
Christ uncrowned himself to crown us, and put off his robes to put on our rags, and came down from heaven to keep us out of hell. …
1. Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. (Harold Hulbert)
2. No man or woman ever had a nobler challenge or a higher privilege than to bring up a child for God, and whenever we slight that privilege or neglect that ministry for anything else, we live to mourn it in heartache and grief. (Vance Havner)
3. The cure of crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. (J. Edgar Hoover)…
Ask any person – rich or poor – how much money they would need in order to make them happy, and the answer will always be the same: ‘A little more’.
Money will buy a bed but not sleep, books but not brains, food but not appetite, fine clothes but not beauty, medicine but not health, luxury but not culture, amusement but not happiness, a crucifix but not a saviour, a temple but not heaven. Naismith, 1200 Notes, Quotes and Anecdotes)
Martin Luther astutely observed, “There are three conversions necessary: the conversion of the heart, mind and the purse.”…
A few choice quotes from that wonderful collection, A Puritan Golden Treasury:-
Pride loves to climb up, not as Zacchaeus to see Christ, but to be seen. (William Gurnall)
A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil. (Stephen Charnock)
I may say of pride, many sins have done wickedly, but thou surmountest them all; for the wrathful man, the prodigal man, the lascivious man, the surfeiting man, the slothful man, is rather an enemy to himself than to God; the envious man, the covetous man, the deceitful man, the ungrateful man, is rather an enemy to men than to God, but the proud man sets himself against God (because he does against His laws), he maketh himself equal with God (because he does all without God and craves no help of Him); he exalteth himself above God (because he will have his own will).…
God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair. (Martin Luther)
My temptations have been my masters in divinity. (Martin Luther)
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole; yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. (Billy Sunday)…
