Birth: November 5, 1851 Death: February 16, 1921
If we compare the present state of the New Testament text with that of any other ancient writing, we must... declare it to be marvelously correct. Su….
There is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in ….
We have but one Saviour; and that one Saviour is Jesus Christ our Lord. Nothing that we are and nothing that we can do enters in the slightest measur….
It is never on account of its formal nature as a psychic act that faith is conceived in Scripture to be saving. It is not, strictly speaking, even fa….
The marvel of marvels is not that God, in His infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that He has elected any..
We can no longer speak of a bourne from which no traveler e'er returns. The middle wall of partition has been broken down and the boundary become but….
In the infinite wisdom of the Lord of all the earth, each event falls with exact precision into its proper place in the unfolding of His divine plan.….
Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving..
He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God..
I do not think that there is any general statement in the Bible or any part of the account of creation, either as given in Genesis 1 and 2 or elsewhe….
A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles..
A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that a clear and full apprehension….
From the empty grave of Jesus the enemies of the cross turn away in unconcealable dismay. Those whom the force of no logic can convince, and whose he….
Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture.
In Christ's resurrection, therefore, the Christian man sees the earnest and pledge of his own resurrection; and by it he is enheartened as he lays aw….
Had Christ not risen we could not believe Him to be what He declared Himself when He "made Himself equal with God." But He has risen in the confirmat….
Had He not emerged from the tomb all our hopes, all our salvation would be lying dead with Him unto this day. But as we see Him issue from the grave ….
To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling..
A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME WILL SMELL AS SWEET. BUT IT DOES NOT FOLLOW THAT WHATEVER WE CHOOSE TO CALL A ROSE WILL POSSESS THE ROSE'S FRAGRANCE..
Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your book….
The Bible is the Word of God in such a way that when the Bible speaks, God speaks..