It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness..

People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell..

A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God.

All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble..

The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise up another. But they little think tha….

The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion -- whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on once a week, and then laid aside ….

True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a p….

Without the blessing of the Lord, your best endeavors will do no good. He has the hearts of all men in His hands, and except He touch the hearts of y….

The true Christian regards all Christ's friends as his friends, members of the same body, children of the same family, soldiers in the same army, tra….

Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do, don't delay for a moment in att….

Let it be a settled principle in our minds, in reading the Bible, that Christ is the central sun of the whole book. So long as we keep Him in view, w….

Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins..

There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences;….

Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But a….

The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop..

God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul..

What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No ma….

I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond quest….

Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too of….

Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct..

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors..