Quotes

Till the sinner repents, God and he cannot be friends.  [TDOR]

Topic: Repentance

Three men, asking one another what made them leave sin: one says, I think of the joys of heaven; another, I think of the torments of hell; but the third, I think of the love of God, and that makes me forsake it. How shall I offend the God of love?  [TDOR]

Topic: God's Love / Holiness / Sin

The sincere convert is not one man at church and another at home. He is not a saint on his knees and a cheat in his shop. [ASGTH]

Topic: Character / Christian - Disciple

The (converted) man … makes conscience even of little sins and little duties. [ASGTH]

Topic: Christian - Disciple / Conscience / Conversion

Though God cannot, and will not, dissolve the relationship which the Spirit of adoption has made between the Father and the sons, for any sin that such do commit: yet he can, and often does, take away from them the comfort of their adoption, not suffering children, while sinning, to have the sweet and comfortable sense thereof on their hearts. [TFOG]

Topic: Adoption / Assurance - Confidence / Comfort - Consolation

The hypocrite looks for applause abroad, and forgets that he is condemned at home; and both these he does because he lacks the fear of God. [TFOG]

Topic: Fear of God (Reverence) / Hypocrisy - Hypocrite

Gluttony is a sin little taken notice of, and as little repented of by those that use it; but yet it is odious in the sight of God, and the practice of it a demonstration of the lack of His fear in his heart. (Jude 12)  [TFOG]

Topic: Fear of God (Reverence) / Gluttony

Where there is a high mind, there is not the fear of God, and where there is the fear of God, the mind is not high, but lowly.  [TFOG]

Topic: Fear of God (Reverence) / Humility / Pride - Boasting

It is not the knowledge of the will of God, but our sincerely complying therewith, that proves we fear the Lord.  [TFOG]

Topic: Fear of God (Reverence) / God's Will / Obedience - Obey

All the beautiful objects in the world are not so lovely in the eye of God as a heart that trembles at the Word.  [GF]

Topic: Bible - Word of God / Fear of God (Reverence)

Lack of reverence for the word is the ground of all the disorders that are in the heart, life, conversation, and in Christian communion.  [TFOG]

Topic: Bible - Word of God / Sin

All transgression beginneth at wandering from the word of God.  [TFOG]

Topic: Fear of God (Reverence) / Sin

There is no duty performed by us, that can by any means be accepted of God, if it be not seasoned with godly fear.  [TFOG]

Topic: Fear of God (Reverence) / Service

True love will extend to mankind universally, because they all are our flesh, and created in the image of God, but in respect of degrees, it will begin with those who are of the household of faith.  [JCC – Col 1]

Topic: Love to Others

Thorough, impartial, frequent self-examination is not the characteristic of any who are at heart unsound. In fact the reluctance of some to this duty is sad evidence against them. It costs them too much.  [JJTP]

Topic: Self-examination

To doubt the genuiness of our faith because we have not full assurance is not wise. He to whom Christ is precious, to whom the word of God is sweeter than honey, to whom sin is odious, to whom secret devotion is a delight, who makes it the business of his life to honour his Master, and who regards the world as a broken idol, has the witness that he is passed from death unto life.  [ROOS]

Topic: Assurance - Confidence / Doubt - Unbelief

The more we fix our hopes on the recompense of reward in the other world, the more free and liberal shall we be of our earthly treasure upon all occasions of doing good.  [MHBC – Col 1]

Topic: Gift - Giving / Good Works / Hope / Rewards

Thanksgiving ought to be a part of every prayer; and whatever is the matter of our rejoicing ought to be the matter of our thanksgiving.  [MHBC – Col 1]

Topic: Joy (Happiness) / Praise to God / Prayer - Intercession - Supplication / Thankfulness - Thanksgiving

We often find more comfort in the falls and failures of great saints who repented and were forgiven and restored, than in their deeds of heroism.

Topic: Comfort - Consolation / Forgive / Forgiveness / Repentance

If God does not hold the hearts of the wicked in his hands, and entirely control them, how can the pious pray for deliverance from wicked men with any hope that they will be heard and answered?  [JJTP]

Topic: God's Sovereignty / Prayer - Intercession - Supplication