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1. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
2. Faith and obedience are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith.
3. Faith is the mother of virtues. Faith is the fire which consumes sacrifice. Faith is the water which nurtures the root of piety. If you have not faith, all your graces must die. And in proportion as your faith increases, so will all your virtues be strengthened, not all in the same proportion, but all in some degree.
4. Faith is the silver thread upon which the pearls of the graces are to be hung. Break that, and you have broken the string -- the pearls lie scattered on the ground.
5. Churches and chapels would not so often be empty if ministers would take heed what they preach as well as how they preach.
6. What is needed is thought, truth, and sound doctrine, and the Spirit of God. Young men are apt to think less of what to say than of how to say it; but our advice is, think of both in due proportion. Set the matter before the manner; get the horse first, and get a good one, and then harness him. Give the people the grand old Gospel, and plenty of it, and they will not much mind the way in which you bring it forth.
7. Impatient people water their miseries and hoe up their comforts; sorrows are visitors that come without invitation, and complaining minds send a wagon to bring their troubles home in.
8. "Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life----come poverty, come wealth, in death---come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, 'We love Him because He first loved us.'"
9. "You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so costly a sacrifice for us. When His hands are pierced, when He is parched with fever, His tongue dried up like a shard of pottery, when His whole body is dissolved into the dust of death, you never hear a groan or a shriek that looks like Jesus is going back on His commitment."
10. "When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love."
11. "Soar back through all your own experiences. Think of how the Lord has led you in the wilderness and has fed and clothed you every day. How God has borne with your ill manners, and put up with all your murmurings and all your longings after the 'sensual pleasures of Egypt!' Think of how the Lord's grace has been sufficient for you in all your troubles."
12. "We venture to assert, that if there be any day in the year, of which we may be pretty sure that it was not the day on which the Savior was born, it is the 25th of December....Regarding not the day, let us, nevertheless, give thanks to God for the gift of His dear Son."
13. "Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with Him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendor."
14. "The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded."
15. "We believe, that the work of regeneration, conversion, sanctification and faith, is not an act of man's free will and power, but of the mighty, efficacious and irresistable grace of God."
16. "Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!"
17. "You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come."
18. "Ah! dear friend, you little know the possibilities which are in you."
19. "When Andrew went to find his brother, he little imagined how eminent Simon would become....You may be very deficient in talent yourself, and yet you may be the means of drawing to Christ one who shall become eminent in grace and service."
20. "I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou can eat it all to thyself."
21. "As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others."
22. "Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service."
23. "I have no faith in that woman who talks of grace and glory abroad, and uses no soap and water at home. Let the buttons be on the shirts, let the children's socks be mended, let the roast mutton be done to a turn, let the house be as neat as a new pin, and the home be as happy as home can be."
24. "I would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries."
25. "Of two evils choose neither."
26. "By perseverance the snail reached the ark."
27. "You are saved--seek to be like your Savior."
28. "Christian, remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity."
29. "It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to 'dishonor God and to flatter man.'"
30. "Pride may be set down as "the sin" of human nature."
31. "Feel for others -- in your pocket."
32. "Without Christ there is no hope."
33. "Whatever subject I preach, I do not stop until I reach the Savior, the Lord Jesus, for in Him are all things."
34. "All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching"
35. "If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for."
36. "Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved."
37. "We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives."
38. "A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow."
39. "Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer."
40. "Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused."
41. "Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is."
42. Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.
43. "Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificied on the altar of conformity and popularity."
44. "The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. I can hear their trampings now as they traverse the great arches of the bridge of salvation. They come by the thousands, by their myriads, e'er since that day when Christ first entered His glory. They come and yet never a stone has sprung in that mighty bridge. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with themtrusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them."
45. "When you have no helpers, see your helpers in God. When you have many helpers, see God in all your helpers. When you have nothing but God, see all in God. When you have everything, see God in everything. Under all conditions, stay thy heart only on the Lord."
46. "If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all."
