What They Said

“The Holy Spirit is the only effectual reformer of the world. If he is absent, legislators may make laws against crime, philosophers may reason against vice, ministers may preach against sin, conscience may remonstrate against evil, the divine law may prescribe and threaten hell, the Gospel may invite and allure to heaven, but all will be in vain.The strongest arguments, the most melting entreaties, the most alarming denunciations from God and man, enforced with the highest authority, or the most compassionate tears, all will have no effect, all will not effectually claim one sinner or gain one sincere convert to righteousness.”

“Christian people, the world is looking to you for teaching, for instruction, for an example of how to live  triumphantly.  So exercise your senses, lay hold on these things, look to the great heroes of the faith for inspiration.  Above all, ‘look unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith’, ……”

"A scared world needs a fearless church."

“We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.”

"All the danger is when the world gets into the heart.  The water is useful for sailing of the ship; all the danger is when the water gets into the ship; so the fear is when the world gets into the heart.  "Thou shall not covet."

"When the church joins up with the world it is the true church no longer but only a pitiful hybrid thing, an object of smiling contempt to the world and an abomination to the Lord."

"Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless."

“The world gains the victory over the unregenerate by captivating their affections and capturing their wills; but the saint overcomes the world, because his affections are set upon Christ and his will yielded to Him.”

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

“The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church; but the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians; “Ye are the light of the world.””

"Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that the world judges God Himself, the Lord Jesus Christ, and the whole of the Christian faith by what it sees in us."

"A godly man preferreth grace before goods, and wisdom before the world."

"He gives often more of the world to those that shall have no more hererafter."

"Let us use the world, but enjoy the Lord."

"Pleasure, profit, preferment are the worldling's trinity."