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.
Faith is the surest of all sin-killers.
There is no learning sympathy except by suffering. It cannot be studied from a book, it must be written on the heart.
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.
You will not be saved by feeling that Christ died for you, but by his dying for you.
It's not the having, it's the getting.
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.
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.
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.
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
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.
I can never cease to wonder that God has elected me.
Remember, he that believes shall be saved, be his sins ever so many.
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior.
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say it is in that one word—prayer.