 It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. Author: A.A. Hodge
Topics: Courage |
| It is to be lamented that the term irresistible grace has ever been used, since it suggests the idea of a mechanical and coercive influence upon an unwilling subject, while, in truth, it is the transcendent act of the infinite Creator, making the creature spontaneously willing. Author: A.A. Hodge
Topics: Grace |
| There is nothing in the world that works such satanic, profound, God-defiant pride as false assurance; nothing works such utter humility, or brings to such utter self-emptiness, as the child-like spirit of true assurance. Author: A.A. Hodge
Topics: Humility, Assurance |
| Nothing in the world so tends to defile the imagination, to pervert the affections, and to corrupt the morals, as self-consciousness. You know it is connected with every disease and morbid action of the body. ...All self-consciousness is of the very essence and nature of sin.. Author: A.A. Hodge
Topics: Morality |
| It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. Author: A.A. Hodge
Topics: Truth |
| He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found. Author: A.A. Hodge
Topics: Knowledge |
| No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre. Author: A.A. Hodge
Topics: Truth |
| If professing Christians are unfaithful to the authority of their Lord in their capacity as citizens of the State, they cannot expect to be blessed by the indwelling of the Holy Ghost in their capacity as members of the Church. Author: A.A. Hodge
Topics: Holy Spirit |
| Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Christianity |
| Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Worship, Healing, Joy |
| We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Holy Spirit, Conversion, The Cross |
| We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Heaven, Trials, Overcoming |
| Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Charity |
| The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Creation |
| God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Humility |
| Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Holiness, The Heart |
| I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Love |
| If we walk in righteousness He will carry us through. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Holiness, Righteousness |
| Let us honor the Holy Ghost. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Holy Spirit |
| May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Holy Spirit, Fire |
| Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Humility, Helping, Unity |
| There is nothing so masterly as inactivity in some things, and there is nothing so hurtful as restless working, for God has undertaken to work His sovereign will. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: God |
| The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Church, The Gospel |
| The religion of the Bible is wholly supernatural. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: The Bible |
| The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Christians, Sanctification |
| There is no harm whatever in having money, houses, lands, friends and children if you do not value these things or ones for themselves. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Money |
| To those holy men who gave us the sacred Scriptures we owe a debt we can never hope to pay. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Scripture |
| We begin life with the natural, next we come into the spiritual; but then, when we have truly received the kingdom of God and His righteousness, the natural is added to the spiritual, and we are able to receive the gifts of His providence and the blessings of life without becoming centered in them or allowing them to separate us from Him. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Blessings, Gifts, Providence |
| We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Christ, Suffering |
| When you become satisfied with God, however, everything else so loses its charm that He can give it to you without harm. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Contentment |
| Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Christ |
| Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Faith |
| God has His spiritual splints that He wants to put upon His children and keep them quiet and unmoved until they pass the first stage of faith. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Faith |
| God is preparing His heroes. And when the opportunity comes, He can fit them into their places in a moment. And the world will wonder where they came from. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Examples |
| God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Christians, Power |
| I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christian are hurling on others. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Gossip |
| When we dare to depend entirely upon God and do not doubt, the humblest and feeblest agencies will become mighty through God, to the pulling down of strongholds. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Contentment, Doubt |
| One of the best results of temptation is that it shows us what is in our hearts. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Temptation |
| Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Christianity |
| Prayer is the link that connects us with God. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Prayer |
| When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Praise, Feelings |
| Superficial Christians are apt to be eccentric. Mature Christians are so near the Lord that they are not afraid of missing His guidance. They are not always trying to promote their loyalty to God by their independence from others. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Apathy |
| The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Obedience, The Heart |
| There are enough evidences of supreme skill in the structure of the human hand alone to prove the existence, intelligence and benevolence of God in the face of all the sophistry of infidelity. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Creation |
| One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Holy Spirit |
| The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God, give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost! Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Church, Holy Spirit, Compromise |
| Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Patience |
| Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Power |
| There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Prayer |
| There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Trials |
| You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Trials |
| We have accounts of the deification of men in pagan mythology. But I do not remember any account of a god becoming a man, to help man. Whoever heard of Jupiter or Mars or Minerva coming down and attempting to bear the burdens of men? The gods were willing enough to receive the gifts of men, but Christianity is unique in the fact that our God became a man with human infirmity and emptied Himself of the glory of heaven, in order that He might take upon Himself the sins, diseases and weakness of our humanity. Author: A.C. Dixon
Topics: God |
| When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament God revealed Himself to Joshua and others in human form. He puts Himself within the compass of our highest conception, in order that He may make Himself real to us in His love and sympathy and power. Author: A.C. Dixon
Topics: God |
| What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others. Author: A.C. Dixon
Topics: Prayer, Intercession |
| The Incarnation through the death of Christ makes it possible for God to be "just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus." If God should be merciful without the satisfaction of justice, He would cease to be a God of justice and would thus forfeit His throne of righteousness. In a word, He would cease to be God. Author: A.C. Dixon
Topics: Justice |
| When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way. Author: A.C. Dixon
Topics: Prayer |
| Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts us, in God's sight, back in Eden before sin entered. God looks upon us and treats us as if we had never sinned. Author: A.C. Dixon
Topics: Justification |
| Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul. Author: A.C. Dixon
Topics: Philosophy |
| We must pass by the good, moral man, and seek the outcast. We must pass by those who, we think, would make the best members of the Church, and go with our invitation to the very refuse of Society. Sad to say, we must. sometimes pass by our very children while we go out after others not related to us by fleshly ties. Author: A.C. Dixon
Topics: Evangelism |
| Justification is away beyond anything that a human court of justice ever realizes. It is putting the sinner in the condition before God as if he had never sinned at all. It is giving him a standing in the merit of Jesus Christ of absolute innocency before God. Author: A.C. Dixon
Topics: Justification |
| There is in the heart of every man or woman, under the conviction of the Holy Spirit, a sense of guilt and condemnation. Bunyan made it a heavy pack on the back of Pilgrim; and he did not lose it until he reached the Cross of Christ. When we realize how guilty sin is, and how condemned is the sinner, we begin to feel the weight of that load. Author: A.C. Dixon
Topics: Conviction, Holy Spirit |
| We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution. Author: A.C. Dixon
Topics: Faith, Salvation |
| In Jesus Christ on the Cross there is refuge; there is safety; there is shelter; and all the power of sin upon our track cannot reach us when we have taken shelter under the Cross that atones for our sins. Author: A.C. Dixon
Topics: The Cross |
| God has the right to be trusted; to be believed that He means what He says; and that His love is dependable. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Trust |
| A basic trouble is that most Churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message almost exclusively to those who are open to religious impression through the intellect, whereas ... there are at least four other gateways -- the emotions, the imagination, the aesthetic feeling, and the will -- through which they can be reached. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Church, Evangelism |
| We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God -- ah, then things must be critical indeed! Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Prayer |
| Pain is a kindly, hopeful thing, a certain proof of life, a clear assurance that all is not yet over, that there is still a chance. But if your heart has no pain -- well, that may betoken health, as you suppose: but are you certain that it does not mean that your soul is dead? Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Pain |
| A century or so since, they spoke of sharing our Lord with the heathen, and the world rocked with laughter at so crazy a scheme, with the Church joining loudly in the merriment. Yet today, who laughs now? We ought to be the gladdest and the most exultant people in the world; for we have found the key to our difficulties, and it turns; have come on a solution of life's problems, and it works. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Christianity |
| You cannot escape Christ, do what You will. You reject His divinity, but, so doing, you have not evaded Him. If He is a man just like us, then obviously you must be a man like Him. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Rebellion |
| Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Thankfulness |
| The Word of God can grow to be only a hunting-ground for texts; and we can preach, meaning intensely every word we utter, and yet in reality only lost for the moment like an actor in his part, or at least leaving it to the folk to live it out; for us, bless me, we have no time for that, but are already immersed, poor harried souls, in determining what we shall preach on next. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Preaching |
| At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, not indeed viewed as sin, but apparently as the invariable ways of a peculiarly repulsive insect, which it can't help, poor thing; and there is no manner of use expecting anything from it, except the nastiness natural to it. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Good and Evil |
| What exactly has Christ done for you? What is there in your life that needs Christ to explain it, and that, apart from Him, simply could not have been there at all? If there is nothing, then your religion is a sheer futility. But then that is your fault, not Jesus Christ's. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Religion |
| God is like the sun at high noon, always giving all he has. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: God |
| Hundreds of men are hoarse from continual speaking, and are wearied out with running here and running there. If things slow down, we evolve yet another type of meeting. And when this new and added wheel is spinning merrily with all the other wheels, there may be no spiritual outcome whatsoever, but there is a wind blowing in our faces; and we hot and sticky engineers have a comfortable feeling that something is going on. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Preaching |
| You will not stroll into Christlikeness with your hands in your pockets, shoving the door open with a careless shoulder. This is no hobby for one's leisure moments, taken up at intervals when we have nothing much to do, and put down and forgotten when our life grows full and interesting... It takes all one's strength, and all one's heart, and all one's mind, and all one's soul, given freely and recklessly and without restraint. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Godliness |
| Do you find life too difficult for you? So did we, but not now, with the amplitudes of grace there are for us in Jesus Christ, it grows satisfying and successful and exciting beyond measure, becomes another and a richer thing. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Life, Grace |
| The core and essence of the Gospel is its tremendous and glorious revelation of how deadly is God's hatred of sin, so that He cannot stand having it in the same universe as Himself, and will go any length, and will pay any price, and will make any sacrifice, to master and abolish it, is set upon so doing in our hearts, thank God, as elsewhere. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: The Gospel |
| Christ holds that prayer is a tremendous power which achieves what, without it, was a sheer impossibility. And this amazing thing you can set into operation. And the fact that you are not so using it, and simply don't believe in it and its efficiency and efficacy as our fathers did, and that so many nowadays agree with you, is certainly a major reason why the churches are so cold, and the promises seem so tardy of fulfillment. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Prayer, Church |
| If we are whimpering, and sniveling, and begging to be spared the discipline of life that is sent to knock some smatterings of manhood into us, the answer to that prayer may never come at all. Thank God! If you are not bleating to get off, but asking to be given grace and strength to see this through with honour, "The very day" you pray that prayer, the answer always comes. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Prayer, Strength |
| Do not burn false fire upon God's altar; do not pose and pretend, either to Him or to yourself, in your religious exercises; do not say more than you mean, or use exaggerated language that goes beyond the facts, when speaking to Him whose word is truth. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Prayer |
| There is still One whose faith in you has never wavered. And how wonderful it is that that one should be Jesus Christ! It was a wonderful dream God dreamed, Christ says, when He created you; it was a stately being that was in His mind when you were fashioned; and I can make you all He meant that you should be. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Jesus, Creation |
| There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer. Author: A.T. Pierson
Topics: Prayer, Unity, Revival |
| God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession. Author: A.T. Pierson
Topics: Prayer, Intercession |
| All that is glorious is but a phase of His infinite excellence, and so all truth and holiness, found in the Holy Scripture, are only a new tribute to Him who is the Truth, the Holy One of God. Author: A.T. Pierson
Topics: Truth |
| Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God's presence. It is vain to say, "I have too much work to do to find time." You must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him. Author: A.T. Pierson
Topics: Prayer, Time |
| It is in the deepest darkness of the starless midnight that men learn how to hold on to the hidden Hand most tightly and how that Hand holds them; that He sees where we do not, and knows the way He takes; and though the way be to us a roundabout way, it is the right way. Author: A.T. Pierson
Topics: Faith |
| There is a vast difference in the point of view from which circumstances are regarded. If they come between us and God they may hide God from us; if He comes between us and them, He may hide them from us, or even impart to them, when in themselves alone, they are dark and sad, a lustre and a glory. Author: A.T. Pierson
Topics: Circumstances |
| To a true child of God, the invisible bond that unites all believers to Christ is far more tender, and lasting, and precious; and, as we come to recognize and realize that we are all dwelling in one sphere of life in Him, we learn to look on every believer as our brother, in a sense that is infinitely higher than all human relationships. This is the one and only way to bring disciples permanently together. All other plans for promoting the unity of the Church have failed. Author: A.T. Pierson
Topics: Unity |
| We take our stand at the cross and consent to be nailed to it, voluntarily, actually; to submit to the pain whereby the flesh dies; the hands are pierced that carnal work may no longer be done in the energy of the flesh; the feet are pierced that no longer we may walk according to the flesh; the brow is pierced with the thorn crown that our head may not any longer be held up for human diadems and fading laurel wreaths; the side is pierced that the heart may relinquish its fleshly energy and preference, and be occupied with God. Author: A.T. Pierson
Topics: Surrender |
| The supreme test of service is this: For whom am I doing this? Much that we call service to Christ is not such at all....If we are doing this for Christ, we shall not care for human reward or even recognition. Author: A.T. Pierson
Topics: Service, Rewards |
| A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees." Author: A.T. Pierson
Topics: Prayer |
| By a matchless parable our Lord there taught us that all believers are branches of the Living Vine, and that, apart from Him we are nothing and can do nothing because we have in us no life. Author: A.T. Pierson
Topics: Jesus, Unity |
| By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness. Author: A.T. Pierson
Topics: Faith, Redemption |
| If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together. Author: A.T. Pierson
Topics: Missions |
| After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Forgiveness, Grief, Joy |
| As Christ has a Gospel, Satan has a gospel too; the latter being a clever counterfeit of the former. So closely does the gospel of Satan resemble that which it parades, multitudes of the unsaved are deceived by it. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Satan, The Gospel, Deception |
| Before He furnishes the abundant supply, we must first be made conscious of our emptiness. Before he gives strength, we must be made to feel our weakness. Slow, painfully slow, are we to learn this lesson; and slower still to own our nothingness and take the place of helplessness before the Mighty One. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Character, Humility, Weakness |
| Daily living by faith on Christ is what makes the difference between the sickly and the healthy Christian, between the defeated and the victorious saint. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Faith, Victory |
| Every Christian will readily allow that sin is insidious, but it is one thing to recognize this in theory and quite another to be regulated by it in practice. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Sin |
