Rutherford Quotes 2

The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, whereby his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.

No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.

Build your nest in no tree here for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.

Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman; He purposed a crop.

Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.

When we shall come home and enter into the possession of our brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, then we shall look back to pains and sufferings and then we will see life and sorrow to be less than one step or stride from a prison to glory. Our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome-home to heaven.

Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.

I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways.

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

Grace grows best in winter.

There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ. 

 [Samuel Rutherford]

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Rutherford Quotes

Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven. 

Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. 

Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea. 

I urge you, a nearer communion with Christ, and a growing communion. There are curtains to be opened in Christ that we have never seen before Therefore, dig deep, and sweat, and labor. Take pains for Him and set aside as much time as you can in each day for Him. 

In our fluctuations of feelings, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus sails by. 

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. 

Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction. 

You will not get to steal quietly into heaven, into Christ's company, without a conflict and a cross. I find crosses to be Christ's carved work that he marks out for us and that with crosses he portraits us to his own image, cutting away pieces of our ill and corruption. Lord cut - Lord carve - Lord wound - Lord do anything that may perfect thy father's image in us and make us ready for glory. 

They lose nothing who gain Christ. 

I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet. 

I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons. 

O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want. 

There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.

[Samuel Rutherford]

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Simeon Quotes

If we had received our just deserving from God, there is not one among us who would not have been in the very depths of Hell, long, long ago! 

Believer! Not so much as a hair can fall from your head but by the divine appointment of your all-loving heavenly Father! 

The evil of sin far exceeds all that language can express, or that any finite intelligence can conceive! 

In everything we must endeavor to act as in God's immediate presence! 

Even though evil is a sweet morsel in your mouth for a season it will at last bite like a serpent, and sting like an adder! 

The ungodly often die as insensible of eternal realities as the beasts! 

The Word of God is the only standard of right and wrong; and by that we shall be judged in the last day. 

Every advance towards Christian maturity, will always be manifested by a proportionate growth in humility. 

No mother is so tender towards her newborn child, as God is towards his penitent and believing people. 

Can we survey the wonders of redeeming love, and not have our whole souls penetrated with an overwhelming sense of gratitude? 

We should always contemplate God's sovereign and saving mercies with overwhelming gratitude and whole-hearted devotion!  God is pleased oftentimes to afflict his people, in order to wean them from the love of this present world, and to quicken their souls to a greater delight in him. 

Godly principles in the heart always manifest themselves by actions in the life. Real piety is operative and influential on the whole life. 

The true Christian knows, that if he were judged by the best act he ever performed, he must forever perish! 

All that the blood of Christ could purchase, and all that the love of God can bestow is the portion reserved for every believer in the realms of bliss! 

[Charles Simeon]

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Consummate April Fool!

He who looks up to the heavens and then writes himself down as an atheist, brands himself at the same moment as an idiot or a liar! The Atheist is the fool preeminently, and a fool universally! To say there is no God is to belie the plainest evidence, which is obstinacy; to oppose the common consent of mankind, which is stupidity; to stifle consciousness, which is madness. 

[Charles H. Spurgeon] 

The world we live in, is a world of fools! 

[John Jamieson] 

Who in the world is a greater fool, a more ignorant, wretched person than he who is an atheist? 

[Jeremy Taylor]

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Psalm 94:8 ...  Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

Psalm 14:1 ...The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

Psalm 19:1-3 ... The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. ❤

"Sin"

Look to the cross and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well-Beloved to the tree.

As salt tinges every drop in the ocean, so does sin affect every atom of our nature.

Sin murdered Christ and will you be a friend to it?

He who does not hate sin, does not love God.

Sin is the greatest evil in the universe.

No sin is a little sin, because it is committed against a great God.

Sin is the leprosy of the soul, which defiles everything it touches.

Sin is the poison of the universe death and damnation are its sure result.

Sin is the mother and nurse of all evil. It is the egg from which every evil is hatched.

If you would see the true nature of sin, then look to the Savior scourged, bleeding, dying on the cross.

Sin is self-damnation.

To pursue sin, is to run into Hell with your eyes wide open.

The sin that you excuse today, will be your master tomorrow.

Sin is worse than the devil himself, for sin made the devil what he is.

Sin is the murderer of peace, and the destroyer of hope.

The smallest sin is an act of cosmic treason against the King of kings.

Sin is a serpent beware how you handle it, for its fangs are deadly!

Sin blinds the eye, hardens the heart, and sears the conscience.

If sin were not so terrible then Hell would not be so dreadful.

Sin may look sweet, but it is deadly poison disguised as honey.

Sin is not only an enemy to God, but the greatest enemy to your own soul.

Sin is the seed, and damnation is the harvest.

The sinner's laughter today, will become weeping tomorrow.

Sin thrives on excuses and dies in the presence of repentance.

Sin never comes alone; it always brings a host of sorrows with it.

If sin were truly seen as it is, we would flee from it as from a poisonous viper!

[Charles H. Spurgeon]

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"Sin"

Sin is worse than suffering; it is better to suffer than to sin. Every sin is an attempt to dethrone God in your heart. Sin never goes alone but leaves a stain wherever it touches.

[Richard Baxter]

Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, and the contempt of His love. Sin turns the soul into a dungeon of darkness.

[John Bunyan] 

Sin is infinitely worse than any affliction. One sin allowed, is enough to damn the soul. Sin is the soul's only sickness, and Christ is the soul's only Physician.

[Jeremiah Burroughs]

Sin in the heart is like Jonah in the ship it turns the soul into a tempest. Sin will usher in the greatest and saddest losses imaginable. Sin is Satan's firstborn.

[Thomas Brooks]

Sin is an offense against infinite holiness and deserves infinite punishment. Sin is a deicide every sin would kill God if it could.

[Stephen Charnock]

Be killing sin, or it will be killing you. The seed of every sin is in every heart. 

[John Owen]

The smallest sin is an infinite evil, because it is committed against an infinite God. Sin is the foulest evil it pollutes everything it touches. 

[Samuel Rutherford]

Sin is the cause of all suffering and the root of all sorrow. Sin is the disturber of Heaven, earth, and Hell. One of the greatest sins, is not to see sin as the greatest evil. Sin is the soul's enemy, the heart's wound, and the thief of eternal joy.

[Ralph Venning]

Till sin is bitter, Christ will not be sweet. Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages. Sin is a spiritual poison that would murder the soul. Sin is worse than Hell, because sin brought Hell into being.

[Thomas Watson]

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My Real Name!!

 To Rev. John Newton,

Oh, what is man! How easily we spy the vanity and inconsistency in another, and how hardly we discern it in ourselves. The foulest stain, and worst absurdity in our nature, is pride! And yet this vile hedgehog so rolls himself up in his bristly coat, that we can seldom get a sight of his claws. Pride cleaves to us, like a shirt soaked in tar cleaves to the skin. No sharp ploughing and harrowing will clear the ground of it. This foul weed will be sure to spring up with the next rain!

Pride follows me like my shadow! This diabolical sin has brought more scourges on my back than everything else! It is of so insinuating a nature, that I know not how to rid myself of it. I hate it and love it. I quarrel with it and embrace it. I dread it and yet allow it to lie in my bosom. It pleads a right, through the fall, to be a tenant for life. It has such an amazing appetite that it can feed both on grace and garbage! It will be as warm and snug in a monastery, as a brothel and be as much delighted with a fine prayer, as a foul curse!

Lord, save me! If pride must dwell with me, let it not be a lordly master, but a loathed viper! Oh, that I could once say unto you, foul pride: "Farewell forever!"  There is no Christian grace, but pride will creep into its bosom and mix with it as freely as oil with oil. Nor is Lady Pride ever so delighted as when she becomes intimate with humility, and by soft caresses and kind speeches, encourages the sweet damsel to think highly of herself, even when she looks and talks humbly.

One moment she whispers and tells me that I am a fine fellow and then I am elated. By and by, she calls me a fool and then I am sullen. I can do no religious act, but pride is skulking at my elbow and much affecting me both by her smiles and frowns. This foul pride besieges my heart, besets all my steps, and meets me at every turn. Pride has more heads than a Hydra! (A mythological serpentine water monster which had many heads. Every time someone would cut off one of them, two more heads would grow out!) Pride has more shapes than Proteus! (A mythical Greek figure who could assume a different shape at will.)

It is such an odd mysterious evil that I can even be proud of loathing my pride. Henceforth if you ask my real name, it is Pride!

[John Berridge]

Proverbs 16:18 ... Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

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Swept Off

Dear Friend, 

We shall both very soon, I anticipate, be called away from seeing all things through a glass darkly to meeting God face to face and shall have to answer to Him for the deeds done in the body. 

We would certainly exhibit the most inordinate vanity, if we thought that the great mass of our fellowmen would be losers by our being swept off the great chessboard of this world. This board, indeed, is always so crowded that, with the exception of our attached relations and a few friends, the greater number of our neighbors will be glad to know that our being cleared away has left more elbowroom for them. 

Think how soon the world gets over the death of an eminent minister and let us be content that the place that knew us once, shall know us no more. 

[George Wilson]

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Psalm 103:15-16 ... As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.  For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

Ecclesiastes 1:11 ... There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

Ecclesiastes 2:16 ...  For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.

Psalm 90:10 ... The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. ❤

Mystery, Wonder and Love of Christ's Incarnation

He who was eternally in the bosom of His Father, chose to be born in a foul stable. He who hung the stars in the sky, chose to be nailed and die upon the accursed tree. This is love immeasurable, love incomprehensible!

[William Gurnall]

Consider Christ's condescension: He who made man, was made man. He who is the eternal Word, was pleased to be an infant who could not speak. Oh, the depth of this mystery! 

[Isaac Ambrose]

The Eternal God was pleased to wrap Himself in flesh, in order to come down from the height of His glory to the depths of our misery. Here is a love that surpasses comprehension. Here is the greatest wonder that heaven and earth have ever seen!

[John Flavel]

He came not as a fierce lion to devour, but as a spotless lamb to be sacrificed, that we might be reconciled to God. Marvel at this: the King of glory chose a cradle over a crown, and a cross over a throne.

[John Bunyan]

The Son of God left His glorious throne, to become a servant; in order that we who were rebels, might become children of God. The incarnation is the key to all our hope and joy.

[John Cotton]

The Creator became the creature. The infinite was clothed in flesh. The Son of God, became the Son of Man. Such is the divine wisdom and love that it staggers the comprehension of angels and men alike.

[William Perkins] 

What greater wonder is there, than that the infinite God should clothe Himself in finite flesh in order to save wretched and rebellious men? This is the bottomless ocean of mercy.

[Jeremiah Burroughs]

Behold the marvelous mystery! He who was rich, became poor; that we who were poor, might become rich. The Son of God entered the misery of the world that we might enter the glory of Heaven.

[Christopher Love]

The infinite became an infant. Incomprehensibility was made man. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman's bosom. Supporting the universe and yet needing to be carried in a mother's arms. Oh the wonder of wonders. Oh, the mystery of mercy. Oh, the profoundness of His matchless grace.

[Charles Spurgeon]

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"Providential Care"

In every trial and tribulation, let us find comfort in the knowledge that God, in His infinite wisdom, orchestrates all for the good of His chosen people. God's hand is behind every event, crafting our lives for His glory. 

[John Owen] 

The providence of God is a tapestry of grace, where every thread, even the darkest, contributes to the glorious picture of our salvation. His providence is a rich treasure; He knows how to turn our trials into triumphs, our sorrows into songs. [Thomas Watson] 

The heart that loves God finds peace in knowing that even the most confusing paths are ordered by Him for our benefit. [Richard Sibbes] 

To love God is to rest in His sovereign will, trusting that even the most perplexing circumstances are shaped for our ultimate good. In every situation, whether in joy or sorrow, we are called to trust that God is orchestrating the events of our lives for His glory. 

[Jonathan Edwards] 

Though the winds may howl and the storms rage, we are assured that God's hand is upon us, guiding every event to our benefit and His glory. 

[Richard Baxter] 

God's providence is a divine compass, guiding our lives through every storm, always pointing us toward our true good and His eternal glory. In the tapestry of life, every thread of sorrow is skillfully woven by God, contributing to the beauty of our salvation. 

[Matthew Henry] 

God's providence is like a skilled artisan who, though unseen, is weaving our lives into a masterpiece, with every thread serving His holy purpose! 

[John Bunyan] 

All that befalls us, whether sweet or bitter, is ordained by God, who works all things in concert for the good of those who are called according to His purpose. 

[William Perkins]

Trust in the Lord, for He has a wise design in every affliction, transforming our pain into a pathway of grace. Trust the divine Designer; He weaves even our pain into His purpose. 

[Samuel Rutherford] 

We may often walk through the valley of shadows, but remember, dear believer, that God is sovereignly guiding our steps toward a glorious end! We may rest assured that even the harshest providences are part of God's plan, working towards a good that we may not yet see. 

[John Flavel]

Romans 8:28 ... And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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"Afflictions"

Afflictions teach us to value the blessings of God which in prosperity we are apt to forget.

God's afflictions are not to destroy us, but to wean us from the world and bring us closer to Christ.

It is folly to doubt God's goodness because of His chastening rod, for the rod is in the hand of infinite love.

[Richard Baxter]

Afflictions are but God's furnace to refine His gold. 

Christ's school of affliction is the best school in this world.

God would not rub so hard, if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures.

Afflictions are God's medicines to cure His people.

[ Thomas Brooks]

As the winter prepares the earth for the spring, so affliction prepares the soul for glory.

The greatest afflictions are less than we deserve.

God empties us of worldly comfort to fill us with heavenly joy.

[William Bridge]

God's people are like gold they are purified by fire. 

God does not strike as an enemy to destroy, but as a father to correct.

[Jeremiah Burroughs]

Sanctified afflictions are better than unsanctified prosperity.

The furnace of affliction is where God polishes His jewels.

[John Flavel]

God's wounds cure sin's kisses kill.

[William Gurnall]

Afflictions quicken our desires for eternal things.

Afflictions are blessings to the soul, though they seem bitter to the flesh.

[John Owen]

Your afflictions are your father's love-tokens.

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

[ Samuel Rutherford]

God breaks the cistern to drive us to the fountain.

The fire does not destroy the gold, but only refines it.

God's hammer breaks us in pieces, that He may fashion us into His own likeness.

God squeezes the sins out of His saints by affliction.

It is better to go limping to Heaven, than leaping to Hell.

[ Richard Sibbes]

A sick bed often teaches more than a sermon.

God's rod is a pencil to draw Christ's image more distinctly upon us.

[Thomas Watson]

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Gordon Quotes

There is more you can do after you pray but there is nothing you can do until you pray.

This is what is needed a mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart.

Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. Just so, it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.

Doctrine is the framework of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life.

The Holy Spirit, not the pope is the vicar of Christ on earth.

[Adoniram Gordon]

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Judson Quotes

Doctrine is the framework of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life.

If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated sufferings.

A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the heart this is what is needed.

O slow of heart to believe and trust in the constant presence and overruling agency of our almighty Savior!

In spite of sorrow, loss and pain our course is onward still!

Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another road; and by and by they meet. God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.

I beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent. 

Thanks be to God, not only for rivers of endless joys above but for rills of comfort here below.

There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success, it is because someone will succeed after you.

"Nothing is impossible," said one of the seven sages of Greece, "to industry." Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer' and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption. God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.

Love to Jesus is a sure title to the greatest possible happiness; for Jesus is omnipotent and has determined to make his friends happy, and surely will not forget a single one in whose heart is enkindled one spark of love.

We cannot sit still and see the dear Burmans, flesh and blood like us and, like ourselves, possessed of immortal souls that will shine forever in Heaven or burn forever in Hell, we cannot see them go down to perdition without doing our very utmost to save them. And thanks be to God, our labors are not in vain.

[Adoniram Judson]

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Puritan Quotes 1

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition. (Jeremiah Burroughs)

It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most, but he who meditates most who will prove to be the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian!  (Thomas Brooks)

Let us use worldly things as wise pilgrims do their staves and other things necessary for their journey. So long as they help us forward in our way let us make use of them, and accordingly esteem them. But if they become troublesome hindrances and cumbersome burdens let us leave them behind us or cast them away. The temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned! (George Downame)

The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance from it. He who will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit may find by woeful experience, that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit! Sin is a plague, yes, the greatest and most infectious plague in the world; and yet, ah! how few are there who tremble at it, who keep at a distance from it! (Thomas Brooks)

Riches are long in getting with many pains, hard in keeping with much care, quick in losing with much sorrow. (Thomas Fuller)

Your life is short, your duties are many, your assistance is great, and your reward is sure! Therefore, faint not, hold on and hold up in the paths of godliness and Heaven shall make amends for all! (Thomas Brooks)

Where one thousand are destroyed by the world's frowns ten thousand are destroyed by the world's smiles. The world, siren-like, sings us and sinks us! (Thomas Brooks)

We fear men so much because we fear God so little. One fear cure another. When man's terror scares you turn your thoughts to the wrath of God! (William Gurnall)

When we grow careless in keeping our souls then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses. (Richard Sibbes)

How sweet is rest, after fatigue! How sweet will Heaven be, when our toilsome journey is ended. (George Whitefield)

The winter prepares the earth for the spring so do sanctified afflictions prepare the soul for glory! (Richard Sibbes)

As the wicked are hurt by the best things so the godly are bettered by the worst. (William Jenkyn)

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride! (Richard Sibbes)

To bless God for mercies is the way to increase them. To bless Him for miseries is the way to remove them. (William Dyer)

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Clark Quotes

Sin is the spawn of the old Serpent, the source of Hell, and the vomit of the Devil!

Sin is more hateful to God than the Devil; for God hates the Devil for sin's sake and not sin for the Devil's sake. 

Sin is like a serpent in our bosoms, which cannot live but by sucking out our life blood. 

The godly hate sin because of sin's defilement. The ungodly fear sin because of sin's punishment. 

The godly hate sin because it has filth in it to pollute the soul. The ungodly fear sin because it has fire in it to burn the soul! 

The deluge of waters which overflowed all the world, washed away many sinners but not one sin! 

The world shall one day be all on fire yet all that fire, and those flames in Hell which follow shall not purge one sin! 

All the evils in the world serve to give names to sin: Sin is called poison and sinners are called serpents. Sin is called vomit and sinners are called dogs. Sin is called mire and sinners are called hogs. Sin is called darkness, blindness, shame, nakedness, folly, madness, death, and whatever is filthy, vile, infective, or painful! 

A glutton may fill his belly, but he can never fill his lust! A covetous man may have his house full of money, but he can never have his heart full of money. An ambitious man may have titles enough to overload his memory but never to fill his pride. 

The Devil's last stratagem is, if he cannot beat us down to sin to blow us up with pride! 

Nothing will make God's children so pure, as to wash themselves every morning in tears of repentance. 

Without sound repentance, sin is not seen as the greatest evil nor Christ as the greatest good.

[Samuel Clark]

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Watson Quotes on Sin

The natural heart is the nursery of sin, the magazine where all the weapons of wickedness lie, full of antipathy against God, a lesser Hell! 

Morality is but nature refined old Adam put in a better dress. The garnishing of man with moral excellencies, is but adorning a dead man with a garland of flowers! 

Civility is not grace, although it is a good wall against which to plant the vine of grace. 

If a wicked man seems to have peace at death it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger! 

God's long forbearance in not punishing of sin, is not forgiveness! The longer God delays the blow the heavier it falls when He strikes! 

The sinner may live in a calm, but he will die in a storm of wrath! 

Sin makes the soul red with guilt and black with filth! 

The love of sin makes sin taste sweet this sweetness beguiles the heart and ruins the soul. It is worse to love sin, than to commit it. The love of sin hardens the heart, keeps the devil in possession, and freezes the soul in impenitence. 

View sin in the looking glass of Christ's sufferings! The least sin cost His blood!

[Thomas Watson]

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Wolfe Quotes

How should even the innocent pleasures of life sink in your estimation, when you think of those pleasures that are at the right hand of God! 

Where will you find a man that has not some thorn in his side? 

Choose which master you will serve, mammon or God? Choose which wages you will receive, damnation or salvation? 

Think before you decide, which master loves you most, which would sacrifice most for you? 

The wicked man thinks there is a chance that God may not be in earnest and upon that chance he risks his immortal soul. 

[Charles Wolfe]

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Hodge Quotes

To be in Christ is the source of the Christian's life. To be like Christ is the sum of the Christian's excellence. To be with Christ is the fullness of the Christian's joy. The grace of God exalts a man without inflating him and humbles a man without debasing him. 

The gospel is so simple, that small children can understand it and it is so profound, that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches! 

Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and in the consciousness that what we have of good is due to the grace of God. 

This is true religion: to approve what God approves, to hate what God hates, and to delight in what God delights. 

[Charles Hodge]

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Sibbes Quotes

The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of God's mercy. 

What the heart loves best the mind studies most. 

It is better to go afflicted to Heaven than merry to Hell. 

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride. 

Whatever God takes away from His children He either replaces it with a much greater favor, or else gives strength to bear it. 

Sin is not so sweet in the committing of it as it is bitter in the reckoning of it. 

 [Richard Sibbes]

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McCheyne Quotes 2

Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make you a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating he has ruined your ministry.

Seek to be made holier every day. Be as much you can with God. I declare to you that I had rather be one hour with God than a thousand with the sweetest society on earth or in Heaven. All other joys are but streams God is the fountain!

You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm!

Self-righteousness is the largest idol of the human heart yet the idol which man loves most, and God hates most. 

Beware of false Christs. Strive to be holy but do not make a Christ of it.

Watch against mere lip religion.

A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christs sake until he gives up striving to attract people to himself and seeks only to attract them to Christ.

Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an object of tender interest to the surgeon as when he is bleeding beneath his knife. So, you may be sure if you are suffering from the hand of a reconciled God that His eye is all the more bent on you!

I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment and is not to be thrust into any corner.

A calm hour with God is worth a whole lifetime with man.

When you are reading a book in a dark room and come to a difficult part you take it to a window to get more light. In the same way take your Bibles to Christ.

It is a sure mark of grace, to desire more.

Get your texts from God yet your thoughts, your words, from God. It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.

It is the mark of a hypocrite, to be a Christian everywhere but home.

God will either give you what you ask or something far better.

[Robert Murray McCheyne]

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