“By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.”

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.

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.

Grace is God-given power to live differently.

If you have a story of grace, then you have a story of grace to tell.

Not going to give casual worship to a God of extravagant beauty and grace!

The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God’s loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God’s favor.

Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.