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The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying..
The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something of Christ ….
No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified..
The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards..
He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever a soul can desire is found in Him..
Look to it, my dear friends, that none of you be found Christless at your appearance before him. Those that continue Christless now, will be left spe….
Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us..
If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not tea….
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves..
Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which….
Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our understanding to our lips,….
As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low..
Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it; so that we find t….
To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world..
They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud..
The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little..
As the blood of Christ is the fountain of all merit, so the Spirit of Christ is the fountain of all spiritual life; and until he quicken us and infus….
When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them..
The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated..
Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God..
Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three–your own lust, Satan's tempt….