“We cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.”

God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.

The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success.

When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.

We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.

It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.

We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God’s benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

God is saying, “Be still and know that I am God.

Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.

God is on the throne. Him being for you is more than the world being against you. God won’t allow you to get into a problem that He can’t get you out of.

Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

They say they want heaven; They say they want god. I say I have heaven, I say I am god.