What They Said

"Sanctification is glory begun. Glory is sanctification completed."

"There prevails still a subtle form of legalism which would rob the Saviour of his crown of glory, earned by the cross, and would make of him a second Moses, offering us the stones of the law instead of the life-bread of the gospel."

"There are many who are lip servants but not life servants."

"Religion, in its most general view, is such a sense of God in the soul, and such a conviction of our obligations to him, and of our dependence upon him, as shall engage us to make it our great care to conduct ourselves in a manner which we have reason to believe will be pleasing to him."

"We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ."

“The Word supplies us with an unerring chart by which to steer through the dangerous sea of life. If we sincerely and diligently follow, it will deliver us from disastrous rocks and submerged reefs and direct us safely to the heavenly harbor. That Word has all the instructions we need for every problem, and every emergency we may be called upon to face. That Word has been given to us "that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good work" (2 Timothy 3:17). How thankful we should be that the Triune God has favored us with such a Word.”

"Can anyone be arrogant when he stands beside the cross?"

"Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is for me to have no trouble; never to be fretted or vexed or irritated or sore or disappointed.  It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me.  It is to be at rest when nobody praises me and when I am blamed or despised.  It is to have a blessed home in the Lord where I can go in and shut the door and kneel to my Father in secret and be at peace as in a deep sea of calmness when all around is trouble.  It is the fruit of the Lord Jesus Christ’s redemptive work on Calvary’s cross, manifested in those of His own who are definitely subject to the Holy Spirit."

“The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of communism, nor even the threat of rationalism and the monolithic consensus which surrounds us [nor, I would add today, postmodernism or materialistic consumerism or visceral sensualism or whatever]. All these are dangerous but not the primary threat. The real problem is this: the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, individually or corporately, tending to do the Lord’s work in the power of the flesh rather than of the Spirit. The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.”

“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”

“We must delight in each other, make others’ conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.”

"Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, not otherwise."

“If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.”

"Christianity is not engrossed by this transitory world, but measures all things by the thought of eternity."

“Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.”

"For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ."

"Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation."

“Let us learn to pass a charitable judgment on the conduct of professing believers.  Let us not set them down in a low place, and say they have no grace, because we see in them much weakness and corruption.  Let us remember that our Master in heaven bears with their infirmities, and let us try to bear with them too.  The Church of Christ is little better than a great hospital.  We ourselves are all, more or less, weak, and all daily need the skillful treatment of the heavenly Physician.  There will be no complete cures until the resurrection day.”

"Give me twenty-six soldiers of lead and I will conquer the world."

"Value God and his love more than all the world, though there were millions of them. He valued you before the world, and therefore is beforehand with you in his love. He not only loved you from everlasting, (whereas your love is but of yesterday,) but in the valuation of it, he loved you before all worlds, and preferred you to all worlds: though you loved the world first, before you loved him."