What They Said

“If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified. Let us daily praise God for common mercies — common as we frequently call them, and yet so priceless, that when deprived of them we are ready to perish.”

“It is a wondrous and blessed fact that God manifests his love to the members of his Church in precisely the same way that he evidenced his love to its head when he became incarnate, namely, by the transcendent gift of his Spirit.”

"To begin then, faith cometh by Hearing. The preaching of the gospel is God's soul-saving ordinance. It hath pleased God by the "foolishness of preaching" to save them that believe."

“Nothing can satisfy the entire man but the Lord's love and the Lord's own self.”

“Toward divine things in general, holiness is spirituality of mind, or the habitual current of godly thought, and devout affections flowing through the soul. “

“For God to give us his Spirit is far more than if he had given us all the world, for the latter would be something outside himself, whereas the former is himself.”

"The Lord is our all-sufficient portion. God fills Himself; and if God is all-sufficient in Himself, He must be all-sufficient for us."

“You may judge of a man by what he groans after. Some men groan after wealth — they worship Mammon; some groan continually under the troubles of life — they are merely impatient; but the man who sighs after God, who is uneasy till he is made like Christ, that is the blessed man.”

“Toward self, holiness is the control of our fleshly appetites; the eradication of our pride; the mortification of our selfishness.”

“To be "dead to sins" is to be delivered from the condemning power of sin; or, in other words, from the condemning sentence of the law, under which, if a man lies, he cannot be holy; and from which, if a man is delivered, his holiness is absolutely secured.”

"Let your desire for God's glory be a growing desire."

“It is in vain that we possess the Scriptures unless we bind them around us like a girdle, surrounding our entire nature, keeping each part of our character in order, and giving compactness to our whole man.”

“Toward man, holiness is charity, integrity, truth, mercy. “

“All God’s thoughts concerning everything in heaven and in earth begin and end in Christ. "God created all things by Jesus Christ" (Eph. 3:9), and all things were created "for him" (Col. 1:16).”

"A grateful spirit should ever be cultivated by the Christian; and especially after deliverances we should prepare a song for our God. Earth should be a temple filled with the songs of grateful saints, and every day should be a censor smoking with the sweet incense of thanksgiving."

“Peace and rest belong not to the unregenerate, they are the peculiar possession of the Lord's people, and of them only. The God of Peace gives perfect peace to those whose hearts are stayed upon Him.”

“Toward Christ, holiness is a conformity to his example, and imbibing his spirit.”

“The aim of God in creation, in providence, and in redemption, is the magnifying of himself Everything else is subordinate to this paramount consideration.”

"O branch of the vine, thou canst have no fruit without the sap! O child of God, thou hast no life within thee apart from the life which God gives thee through His Spirit! Then let us not grieve Him or provoke Him to anger by our sin."

“In heaven there shall be no interruptions from care or sin; no weeping shall dim our eyes; no earthly business shall distract our happy thoughts; we shall have nothing to hinder us from gazing for ever on the Sun of Righteousness with unwearied eyes.”