What They Said

“The new birth is God coming unto your life and giving you a new nature, a nature of love to God and other people.  Nothing in life can make up for a lack of this; nothing can take its place.”

"Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode."

"The success of an illegitimate coiner depends largely upon how closely the counterfeit resembles the genuine article. Heresy is not so much the total denial of the truth as a perversion of it. That is why half a lie is always more dangerous than a complete repudiation."

"Love is that jewel of human nature which commands valuation wherever it is found."

"Better is the sin which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud."

"Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own, He hath run away to heaven with it."

"News may come that Truth is sick, but never that it is dead"

"A sense of Christ's amazing love to us has a greater tendency to humble us than even a consciousness of our own guilt. May the Lord bring us in contemplation to Calvary, then our position will no longer be that of the pompous man of pride, but we shall take the humble place of one who loves much because much has been forgiven him. Pride cannot live beneath the cross. Let us sit there and learn our lesson, and then rise and carry it into practice."

"Eternity is an Everlasting now."

"Humility is both a grace and a vessel to receive grace."

""We love Him because He first loved us."  Love is like an echo, it returneth what it receiveth."

"Civility is a good staff to walk with among men, but it us a bad ladder to climb up to heaven."

"If we would always, punctually and with resolute zeal, put in practice what we hear upon the spot, or at the first fit occasion, our attendance at the means of grace, and our reading of good books, could not fail to enrich us spiritually. He will not lose his loaf who has taken care at once to eat it, neither can he be deprived of the benefit of the doctrine who has already acted upon it."

"The new birth is no mere turning over a new leaf, but is the inception and reception of a new life. It is no mere reformation, but a complete transformation. In short, the new birth is a miracle, the result of the supernatural operation of God.  It is radical, revolutionary, lasting."

“When a man comes under the blood of Christ, his whole capacity as a man is refashioned. His soul is saved, yes, but so are his mind and his body. True spirituality means the lordship of Christ over the total man.”

“Is it not a solemn thought, that the eye of God marks all our common dealings of life, either as an abomination or a delight?”

"Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word.  They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it."

"A place is said to be sanctified when it is separated from other things for God; so also the blessing of God is upon all my possessions, upon all that I own, when it all works for God's glory and my ultimate good.  That is when it becomes sanctified to me."

"As the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, so likewise a cheerful thanksgiver."

“Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society, the way that a child catches the measles. But people with understanding realize that their presuppositions should be *chosen* after a careful consideration of which worldview is true.”

“The fool talks forever about nothing, not because he is full, but because he is empty, not in order to give instruction, but for the pure love of talking.”

“Culture is concerned with the world of values. All cultures are irreducibly value-oriented.”

"Therefore a godly man, who has learned by the grace of God how to be full, accounts himself to be made rich by sharing whatever fullness God has given him, for the glory of His name and for the good of others."