“A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.”

True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.

The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.

True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.

They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due

The material universe exists only in the mind.

The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.

I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.

A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd.

As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.

Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.

in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.