The man who can fully understand the word covenant is a theologian. That is the key of all theology—the covenant of works by which we fell, and the covenant of grace by which we stand, Christ fulfilli...
I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather...
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
There is no learning sympathy except by suffering. It cannot be studied from a book, it must be written on the heart.
You will not be saved by feeling that Christ died for you, but by his dying for you.
It is well to praise the Lord for his mercy when you are in health, but make sure that you do it when you are sick, for then your praise is more likely to be genuine.
Unless our faith makes us pine after holiness, it is no better than the faith of devils, and perhaps it is not even so good as that.
If all my senses were to contradict God, I would deny every one of them and sooner believe myself to be out of my right mind than believe that God could lie.
Faith is the surest of all sin-killers.
Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it.
So honesty, sobriety, and such things may be very good among men. But all these things put together, without faith, do not please God. Virtues without faith are whitewashed sins.
Remember, he that believes shall be saved, be his sins ever so many.
Get to Christ somehow, anyhow, for if you get to him you shall live. It is not the greatness nor the perfection of your faith, it is his greatness and his perfection which is to be depended on.
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say it is in that one word—prayer.
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
It's not the having, it's the getting.
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
You believe in God for your soul. Believe in him about your property. Believe in God about your sick wife or your dying child. Believe in God about your losses and bad debts and declining business.