It is not opinions that man needs, it is truth. It is not theology that man needs, it is God. It is not religion that man needs, it is Christ. It is not literature and science that man needs but the knowledge of the free love of God in the gift of His only begotten Son!
In order to grow in grace, we must be much alone with God. It is not in society, that the soul grows most vigorously. In one single quiet hour of prayer, it will often make more progress than in days of company with others. It is in the desert that the dew falls freshest and the air its purest.
I looked for the church and I found it in the world! I looked for the world and I found it in the church!
We are forgiven that we may be like Him who forgives us!
Christian, your whole life is to be one continuous following of the Lord.
In the day of prosperity, we have many refuges to resort to. In the day of adversity, we have only One.
Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die upon another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity!
Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted with Him. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly every thought, feeling, wish, plan, doubt to Him. He wants not merely to be on good terms with you but to be intimate.
The gospel is the proclamation of God's free love the revelation of the boundless charity of God. Nothing less than this will suit our depraved world. Nothing else is so likely to touch the heart, to go down to the lowest depths of depraved humanity, as the assurance that the sinner has been loved, loved by God, loved with a righteous love, loved with a free love that makes no bargain as to merit, or fitness, or goodness.
Have I then no work to work in this great matter of my pardon? None! What work can you work? What work of yours can buy Divine forgiveness or make you fit for the Divine favor? What work has God bidden you work in order to obtain salvation? None. His Word is very plain and easy to be understood, "To him who works not but believes in Him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness" (Romans 4:5). There is but one work by which a man can be saved. That work is not yours but the work of the Son of God. That work is finished.
Your way, not mine O Lord, however dark it be; Lead me by your own hand; choose out the path for me.
The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of complete forgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy. It does not say, "Go and sin no more and I will not condemn you." It says at once, "Neither do I condemn you go and sin no more." (John 8:11)
[Horatius Bonar]
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