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Found 100 quotes matching your search:  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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | |
| | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | The Christian life is a life that consists of following Jesus. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Christianity | | Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Affliction | | Jesus is not one of many ways to approach God, nor is He the best of several ways; He is the only way. Author: A.W. Tozer
Topics: Jesus, Salvation | | Saints are planted in the house of God; they have a kind of rooting there: but though the tabernacle be a good rooting place, yet we cannot root firmly there, unless we are rooted in Jesus Christ. Author: Abraham Wright
Topics: Christians, Jesus | | If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency. Author: Adoniram Judson
Topics: Light, God | | Christianity is a love relationship between a child of God and his Maker through the Son Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit. Author: Adrian Rogers
Topics: Christianity | | I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they're counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they've never been born again. Author: Adrian Rogers
Topics: Hell, Religion, Self-righteousness | | I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew it was for Jesus, have been some of the happiest times of my entire life. I cannot tell you the indescribable joy that has come into my heart and my life. Author: Adrian Rogers
Topics: Suffering | | The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future. He is still in the miracle-working business, and His business is the business of transformation. Author: Adrian Rogers
Topics: Transformation | | We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon. Author: Adrian Rogers
Topics: Holiness | | You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart. Author: Adrian Rogers
Topics: Giving, Money, The Heart | | Give up the struggle and the fight; relax in the omnipotence of the Lord Jesus; look up into His lovely face and as you behold Him, He will transform you into His likeness. You do the beholding--He does the transforming. There is no short-cut to holiness. Author: Alan Redpath
Topics: Holiness, Transformation, Struggles | | Alan Redpath is no different as a man from what he was as a youngster. And the sins that beset him then beset him now, were it not for a constant, continual dependence upon the blood of Jesus, and the grace of God, and the power of the Holy Spirit to keep me. Author: Alan Redpath
Topics: Grace, Holy Spirit, Power | | There's some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do, and which will remain undone and incomplete until by faith and obedience you step into the will of God. Author: Alan Redpath
Topics: Obedience, Redemption | | Any battle for victory, power, and deliverance - from ourselves and from sin - which is not based constantly upon the gazing and the beholding of the Lord Jesus, with the heart and life lifted up to Him, is doomed to failure. Author: Alan Redpath
Topics: Sin, Victory, Power | | The man who gazes upon and contemplates day by day the face of the Lord Jesus Christ, and who has caught the glow of the reality that the Lord is not a theory but an indwelling power and force in his life, is as a mirror reflecting the glory of the Lord. Author: Alan Redpath
Topics: Holy Spirit, Power | | We are not saved in order to be a blessing to other people--you will be that inevitably--but primarily we are saved in order to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, God's Son. Author: Alan Redpath
Topics: Salvation | | Obey God in all things today ! Drive out the enemy ! Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity for Jesus Christ will be increased tomorrow. Author: Alan Redpath
Topics: Obedience | | The immense step from the Babe at Bethlehem to the living, reigning triumphant Lord Jesus, returning to earth for His own people - that is the glorious truth proclaimed throughout Scripture. As the bells ring out the joys of Christmas, may we also be alert for the final trumpet that will announce His return, when we shall always be with Him. Author: Alan Redpath
Topics: Christmas | | Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed. Author: Albert Schweitzer
Topics: Holiness, Character | | The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Heaven | | The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Heaven | | Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was not that a more powerful appeal than all words? And, depend upon it, that the soul which cries aloud on God, "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," though it have "no language but a cry," will never call in vain. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Prayer, Mercy | | The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: God, Mercy | | The risen life of Jesus is the nourishment and strengthening and blessing and life of a Christian. Our daily experience ought to be that there comes, wavelet by wavelet, that silent, gentle, and yet omnipotent influx into our empty hearts, this very life of Christ Himself. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Resurrection | | Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up our eyes, like those wondering three, and see no man any more, save Jesus only. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Jesus | | Embrace in one act the two truths--thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Mercy | | The act of faith, which separates us from all men, unites us for the first time in real brotherhood; and they who, one by one, come to Jesus and meet Him alone, next find that they are come to the city of God "and to an innumerable company." Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Faith, Unity | | The cross is the center of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifixion of our Lord are the pivot round which all the events of the ages revolve. The testimony of Christ was the spirit of prophecy, and the growing power of Jesus is the spirit of history. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: The Cross | | Jesus did not come to live as an example of how to die as a martyr, but as a substitute, taking the place that we deserve in order that we might enjoy what we don't deserve. This is good news. Let us tell all our friends! Author: Alistair Begg
Topics: Atonement | | At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us. Author: Alistair Begg
Topics: Mercy | | Do not strive in your own strength; cast yourself at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and wait upon Him in the sure confidence that He is with you, and works in you. Strive in prayer; let faith fill your heart-so will you be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. Author: Andrew Murray
Topics: Prayer, Strength, Holiness | | Abide in Jesus, the sinless One - which means, give up all of self and its life, and dwell in God's will and rest in His strength. This is what brings the power that does not commit sin. Author: Andrew Murray
Topics: Selfishness | | There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of radical change in the relation of the majority of our Christian people to mission work. Author: Andrew Murray
Topics: Revival, Consecration | | Here's to true 'NEW TESTAMENT' Christianity, my friends - the kind that Jesus and the apostles actually invented in the beginning. Author: Andrew Strom
Topics: Christianity | | As we live a life that is about as unlike Jesus as you can get, a life of comfort and coddling undreamt of by billions around the world;- a lifestyle in the top 10% of the earth today (-in debt up to our eyeballs all the while) - the fact is that we don't really CARE that we have lost original Christianity, do we? We are too busy, man. Don't bother us with that kind of talk. Author: Andrew Strom
Topics: Christianity, Apathy | | If you have been touched or involved in any way with manifestations or experiences that you think may not have been from God, then I urge you to utterly RENOUNCE (with your mouth, but also from the depths of your very being in Jesus' name) any links or involvement with that experience or 'anointing'. Author: Andrew Strom
Topics: Repentance, Deception | If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
- C.T. Studd Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Obedience, Service, Sacrifice | Our peace and confidence are to be found not in our empirical holiness, not in our progress toward perfection, but in the alien righteousness of Jesus Christ that covers our sinfulness and alone makes us acceptable before a holy God.
- Donald Bloesch Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Atonement, Righteousness | Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.
- Elton Trueblood Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Evangelism, Responsibility | To meet Jesus is to look yourself in the pocketbook, which is the most unmistakable way of looking yourself in the heart.
- J. Robert Ross Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Finances, The Heart | No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.
- John Knox Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Jesus | The gospel alone is sufficient to rule the lives of Christians everywhere - any additional rules made to govern men's conduct added nothing to the perfection already found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
- John Wycliffe Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Christians, The Gospel | Turn to God from idols. For the sword of His wrath that had been aimed at you has been sheathed into the heart of His Son. And the arrows of His anger that had been put against your breast were loosed into the Lord Jesus Christ. Because He has died for you, you were forgiven.
- Paris Reidhead Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Atonement, Idolatry | It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.
- Patrick Henry Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Christianity, Freedom, The Gospel | My dear Jesus, my Savior, is so deeply written in my heart, that I feel confident, that if my heart were to be cut open and chopped to pieces, the name of Jesus would be found written on every piece.
- Ignatius of Antioch Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Death, Jesus, The Heart | It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth.
- Ignatius of Antioch Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Death | Fear not to go down with Jesus into the grave.
- William Romaine Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Fear | | Our faith itself, though it be the bond of our union with Christ through which we receive all His blessings, is not our saviour. 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 measure into the ground of our acceptance with God. Jesus did it all. Author: B.B. Warfield
Topics: Jesus, Salvation | | How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified priestly souls! These are souls who have the power to bless, for they intercede with sanctified hearts. They never begin their daily time of intercessory prayer without having first brought to the cross all that is unholy in their lives, so that their old self can be crucified there with Jesus, the sacrificial Lamb. Author: Basilea Schlink
Topics: Intercession | | Prayer means talking over with Jesus everything that happens from morning until night. Author: Basilea Schlink
Topics: Prayer | | Do not be lazy. Run each day's race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God. Keep on running even when you have had a fall. The victory wreath is won by him who does not stay down, but always gets up again, grasps the banner of faith and keeps on running in the assurance that Jesus is Victor. Author: Basilea Schlink
Topics: Laziness, Perseverance | | Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Conversion, Surrender | | Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Jesus | | Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Conversion | | There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Hypocrisy, Laziness | | There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because He was infinitely beyond all that any one name could express. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Jesus | | Look into the preaching Jesus did and you will find it was aimed straight at the big sinners on the front seats. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Sin | | Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Jesus | | Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Humility | | There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: God, The Heart | | Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Humility | | Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because He shows us both God and our own wretchedness. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Pride | | And yet, along comes this idea called Grace to upend all that "as you reap, so will you sow" stuff. Grace defies reason and logic. Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.I'm holding out for Grace. I'm holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I don't have to depend on my own religiosity. Author: Bono
Topics: Grace | | But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross. Author: Bono
Topics: The Cross | | Nothing in the afterlife of the believer adds in the smallest degree to his title of favor with God, nor to his perfect security. Through faith alone this standing before God is conferred, and before Him the weakest person, if he be but a true believer on the Lord Jesus Christ, has precisely the same title as the most illustrious saint. Author: C.I. Scofield
Topics: Heaven | | Christians, let us leave the government of the world till the King comes; let us leave the civilizing of the world to be the incidental effect of the presence there of the Gospel of Christ, and let us give our time, our strength, our money, our days to the mission distinctively committed to the Church, namely, to make the Lord Jesus Christ known "to every creature"! Author: C.I. Scofield
Topics: Government, Evangelism | | Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.' Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Salvation | | Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God because He said so. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Christians, Jesus | | The Gospel that represents Jesus Christ, not as a system of truth to be received, into the mind, as I should receive a system of philosophy, or astronomy, but it represents Him as a real, living, mighty Savior, able to save me now. Author: Catherine Booth
Topics: Salvation, The Gospel | | A Christian is one who recognizes Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, as God manifested in the flesh, loving us and dying for our redemption; and who is so affected by a sense of the love of this incarnate God as to be constrained to make the will of Christ the rule of his obedience, and the glory of Christ the great end for which He lives. Author: Charles Hodge
Topics: Christians, Redemption | | Whatever subject I preach, I do not stop until I reach the Savior, the Lord Jesus, for in Him are all things. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Preaching, Jesus | | The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Miracles, Jesus, The Gospel | | 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. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Atonement, Commitment | | Be careful, dear friends, that you do not misrepresent God yourselves. You who murmur; you who say that God deals hardly with you, you give God an ill character; when you look so melancholy, worldlings say, "The religion of Jesus is intolerable;" and so you stain the honor of God. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: A Jealous God, Sermon 502, March 29, 1863.
Topics: Bitterness, Worldliness | | Courage we shall need, and for the exercise of it we have as much reason as necessary, if we are soldiers of King Jesus. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Exposition of Psalm 27.
Topics: Courage | | Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Heaven | | Genuine faith that saves the soul has for its main element - trust - absolute rest of the whole soul - on the Lord Jesus Christ to save me, whether He died in particular or in special to save me or not, and relying, as I am, wholly and alone on Him, I am saved. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Sermons, v. 58, p. 583-84.
Topics: Faith, Trust, Salvation | | God in his infinite mercy has devised a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can be triumphant. Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, took upon himself the form of man, and offered unto Divine Justice that which was accepted as an equivalent for the punishment due to all his people. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Expiation, Sermon 561, Isa. 53:10.
Topics: Justice, Mercy | | Hang this question up in your homes - "What would Jesus do?" and then think of another - "How would Jesus do it?" For what Jesus would do, and how He would do it, may always stand as the best guide to us. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Examples, Jesus | | I am never ashamed to avow myself a Calvinist; I do not hesitate to take the name of Baptist; but if I am asked what is my creed, I reply, "It is Jesus Christ." Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Christian History, n. 29.
Topics: Religion | | I believe that if I should preach to you the atonement of our Lord Jesus, and nothing else, twice every Sabbath day, my ministry would not be unprofitable. Perhaps it might be more profitable than it is. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Atonement | | I find myself frequently depressed - perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Depression, Trust | | I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death, still to be a soul winner, still to be a true herald of the cross, and testify the name of Jesus to the last hour. It is only such who in the ministry shall be saved. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Faithful | | I love the pure doctrine of unadulterated Calvinism. But if that be wrong - if there be anything in it which is false - I for one say, "Let that perish too, and let Christ's name last forever. Jesus! Jesus! Jesus! Crown Him Lord of all!" Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: 1.212.
Topics: Doctrine | | I question whether the defenses of the gospel are not sheer impertinences. The gospel does not need defending. If Jesus Christ is not alive and cannot fight His own battles, then Christianity is in a bad state. But He is alive, and we have only to preach His gospel in all its naked simplicity, and the power that goes with it will be the evidence of its divinity. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Christianity | | I sometimes wonder that you do not get tired of my preaching, because I do nothing but hammer away on this one nail. With me it is, year after year, "None but Jesus!" Oh, you great saints, if you have outgrown the need of a sinner's trust in the Lord Jesus, you have outgrown your sins, but you have also outgrown your grace, and your saintship has ruined you! Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Jesus | | If I only had one more sermon to preach before I died, it would be about my Lord Jesus Christ. And I think that when we get to the end of our ministry, one of our regrets will be that we did not preach more of Him. I am sure no minister will ever repent of having preached Him too much. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: 54.149.
Topics: Preaching | | If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Holiness | | If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Power, Prayer | | In holiness God is more clearly seen than in anything else, save in the Person of Christ Jesus the Lord, of whose life such holiness is but a repetition. Author: Charles Spurgeon
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Found 100 quotes containing your search: | This Man (Jesus) suddenly remarks one day, 'No one need fast while I am here.' Who is this Man who remarks that His mere presence suspends all normal rules? Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Jesus, Fasting | | In math, if you divide an infinite number by any number, no matter how large, you still have an infinite quotient. So Jesus' love, being infinite, even though it is divided up for every person on earth, is still infinitely poured out on each one of us! Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Love | | It always seems inexplicable to me that those who claim free will so very boldly for man should not also allow some free will to God. Why should not Jesus Christ have the right to choose his own bride? Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Freedom | | It is a very remarkable fact that no inspired preacher of whom we have any record ever uttered such terrible words concerning the destiny of the lost as our Lord Jesus Christ. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Hell | | Keep your eye simply on Him; let His death, His sufferings, His merits, His glories, His intercession, be fresh upon thy mind; when you wake in the morning look to Him; when thou lie down at night look to Him. Oh! let not your hopes or fears come between thee and Jesus; follow hard after Him, and He will never fail you. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Evening by Evening, March 3.
Topics: Perseverance | | Let this be to you the mark of true Gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Sermons, 42.586.
Topics: Salvation | | Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man lifted up, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, that those who are bitten by the old serpent may look unto Jesus and live. Our sinnership is that emptiness into which the Lord pours his mercy. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Salvation, Mercy | | Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: The Cross | | Love to Jesus is the basis of all true piety, and the intensity of this love will ever be the measure of our zeal for His glory. Let us love Him with all our hearts, and then diligent labor, and consistent living will be sure to follow. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Piety, Zeal | | Millions have never heard of Jesus. We ought not to ask, "Can I prove that I ought to go?' but, "Can I prove that I ought not to go?"; Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Missions | | Morality is a neat cover for foul venom, but it does not alter the fact that the heart is vile, and the man himself is under damnation. Men will be damned with good works as well as without them, if they make them their confidence (rather than Jesus Christ). Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Morality | | Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Morality, Hell | | My deacons know well enough how, when I first preached in Exeter Hall, there was scarcely ever an occasion in which they left me alone for ten minutes before the service, but they would find me in a most fearful state of sickness, produced by that tremendous thought of my solemn responsibility. I am compelled to put my responsibilities where I put my sins, on the back of the Lord Jesus Christ. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: 48.619.
Topics: Responsibility | | The Gospel does not need defending. If Jesus Christ is not alive and cannot fight His own battles, then Christianity is in a bad state. But He is alive and we have only to preach His gospel in all its simplicity, and the power that goes with it will be evidence of its divinity. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Christianity, The Gospel | | The man who is all aglow with love to Jesus finds little need for amusement. He has no time for trifling. He is in dead earnest to save souls, and establish the truth, and enlarge the kingdom of his Lord. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Evangelism | | The saints are sinners still. Our best tears need to be wept over, the strongest faith is mixed with unbelief, our most flaming love is cold compared with what Jesus deserves, and our intensest zeal still lacks the full fervor which the bleeding wounds and pierced heart of the crucified might claim at our hands. Our best things need a sin offering, or they would condemn us. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Sin, Zeal | | The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Preaching | | The treatment of our Lord Jesus Christ by men is the clearest proof of total depravity. Those must be stony hearts indeed which can laugh at a dying Savior and mock even his faith in God! Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Rebellion | | They believe the doctrine of election, but they have not the faith of God's elect. They swear by final perseverance, but persevere in unbelief. They confess all the five points of Calvinism, but they have not come to the one most needful point of looking unto Jesus, that they may be saved. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: 17.531.
Topics: Salvation | | To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in this world. And with every soul you bring to Jesus Christ, you seem to get a new heaven here upon earth. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Sermons, 11.431.
Topics: Evangelism | | We are convinced that all of our race who die in infancy partake in the redemption wrought out by our Lord Jesus. Whatever some may think, we believe that the whole spirit and tone of the Word of God, as well as the nature of God Himself, lead us to believe that all who leave this world as babes are saved. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Sermons, 24.583.
Topics: Children, Death | | We want personal consecration. I have heard that word pronounced purse and all consecration, a most excellent pronunciation. He who loves Jesus consecrates to Him all that he has, and feels it a delight that he may lay anything at the feet of Him who laid down his life for us. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Giving, Consecration | | When a man is saved by divine grace, he is not wholly cleansed from the corruption of his heart. When we believe in Jesus Christ all our sins are pardoned; yet the power of sin, albeit that it is weakened and kept under by the dominion of the new-born nature which God doth infuse into our souls, doth not cease, but still tarrieth in us, and will do so to our dying day. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Indwelling Sin, Sermon from Job 40:3-4.
Topics: Salvation, The Heart | | Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God, there is good news. Jesus waits to embrace you now in the arms of unconditional, divine love. Author: Charles Stanley
Topics: Habits | | The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom. Author: Charles Stanley
Topics: Service, Scripture, Meditation | | As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you. Author: Charles Stanley
Topics: Anxiety, Jesus | | Keep from me Thy loveliest creature, till I prove Jesus' love infinitely sweeter. Author: Charles Wesley
Source: Written during his courtship.
Topics: Romance | | Remember that you are not called to produce successful, upwardly mobile, highly educated, athletically talented machines...Giving your children great opportunities is good; it is not, however, the goal of parenting. Christlikeness is. Above all, seek to raise children who look and act a lot like Jesus. Author: Chip Ingram
Source: Effective Parenting in a Defective World
Topics: Parents | | The cross is the greatest example of humility and devotion in the universe. Jesus put your needs ahead of His own. He considered you more valuable than Himself. Author: Chip Ingram
Topics: The Cross | | Although we will never be perfect in this life, it's God's passionate desire to continually transform our hearts and lives to reflect the beauty, love and holiness of Jesus. Author: Chip Ingram
Topics: Life, The Heart | | Nothing breaks down barriers and preconceived ideas about 'Christians and Christianity' more than when we treat people the way Jesus treated His enemies. Author: Chip Ingram
Topics: Relationships | | The disciples' decision to obey Jesus after the Ascension proved to be a pivot point in history. The word was never the same again. Author: Chuck Colson
Topics: Obedience | | More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks. Author: Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Selfishness, Hypocrisy, Commitment | | As the saints of God meet together Jesus still manifests Himself. And seeing Him, there comes to us a new joy and peace, a new sense of the purpose and worthfulness of life. Seeing Him there comes to us a new power for battle and for conquest. Author: Clovis G. Chappell
Topics: Joy, Peace, Power | | A religion that does not permeate and purify and uplift and sanctify business and business relations is not the religion of Jesus Christ. Author: Clovis G. Chappell
Topics: Business | | Saints and martyrs are famous for testifying to the truth about Jesus Christ while their enemies set them on fire, but each day ordinary Christians experience small martyrdoms when they blow the whistle on a dangerous product, or lose a friend they had to confront, or stand up in a small group and, for the first time in their lives, say to a group of strangers,"My name is Maxine, and I am an alcoholic." Author: Cornelius Plantinga
Topics: Persecution, Witnessing | | Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you. Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Holy Spirit, Service | | I think there are many who would like to be saved but have been presented the faulty idea that repentance is turning from sin and therefore they are convinced that they cannot be saved. Oh, if we would only make salvation plain and explain to men that we are not saved by doing anything; rather we are saved by trusting in what Jesus has already done. Author: Curtis Hutson
Topics: Salvation, Repentance | | No one will ever go to Hell who has put his trust in Jesus Christ, but many will end up in torment who have trusted their own righteousness and reformation. Author: Curtis Hutson
Topics: Hell, Self-righteousness | | In addition to saying that the believer has everlasting life the moment he believes, Jesus adds the promise that he shall not come into condemnation; that is, the sentence of sin will never be put on the believer again. Author: Curtis Hutson
Topics: Salvation | | If the believer sins after he is saved, God will chastise him. But the chastisement is not payment for sin. Jesus Christ paid for our sins two thousand years ago when He died on the cross. Author: Curtis Hutson
Topics: Chastisement | | Jesus is hungry but feeds others; He grows weary but offers others rest; He is the King Messiah but pays tribute; He is called the devil but casts out demons; He dies the death of a sinner but comes to save His people from their sins; He is sold for thirty pieces of silver but gives His life a ransom for many; He will not turn stones to bread for Himself but gives His own body as bread for people. Author: D.A. Carson
Topics: Jesus, Examples | | What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus' sake. Author: D.A. Carson
Topics: Unity | | A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Jesus, Friendship | | Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings! Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Death, Jesus | | Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Jesus | | I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray. Author: D.L. Moody
Source: Leadership, v. 1, n. 1.
Topics: Prayer, Preaching | | I never preached a sermon yet that I could not pick to pieces, and find fault with. I feel that Jesus Christ ought to have a far better representative than I am. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Preaching | | No matter how low down you are; no matter what your disposition has been; you may be low in your thoughts, words, and actions; you may be selfish; your heart may be overflowing with corruption and wickedness; yet Jesus will have compassion upon you. He will speak comforting words to you; not treat you coldly or spurn you, as perhaps those of earth would, but will speak tender words, and words of love and affection and kindness. Just come at once. He is a faithful friend - a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Compassion | | There was never a sermon which you have listened to but in it Christ was seeking for you. I contend that a man cannot but find in every page of this book that Jesus Christ is seeking him through His blessed Word. This is what the Bible is for to seek out the lost. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: The Bible | | I wish we had a few more women like the woman of Samaria, willing to confess what the Lord Jesus Christ had done for their souls. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Women | | Now just think a moment and answer the question, "What shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?" Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Choices | | If you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ you are free. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Freedom | | Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Prayer, Surrender | | Our culture does not help us to smash our graven image of the casual god. Our culture proclaims that God must be the essence of tolerance; He is chummy rather than holy; the 'man upstairs' rather than my Father for Jesus' sake. Author: Dale Ralph Davis
Topics: God | | Worship is not a repetitious exercise of rituals and formulas. These create a veil that actually prevents us from enjoying the presence of the Lord. Worship is the heart poured out in gratitude and awe, expressing our appreciation of who He is and what He has done for us by His grace through Jesus Christ. Author: Dave Hunt
Topics: Worship, The Heart | | I was a little better than speechless all day. O my God, I am speedily coming to Thee! Hasten the day, O Lord, if it be Thy blessed will. Oh, come, Lord Jesus, come quickly. Author: David Brainerd
Topics: Jesus | | The only Jesus that unbelievers ever see on this earth is the one reflected in those who already know Him. By mirroring Christ, we should be ready to turn any conversation or meeting with an unbeliever into a divine encounter. Author: David Jeremiah
Topics: Examples | | Jesus became mortal to give you immortality; and today, through Him, you can be free. Author: David Jeremiah
Topics: Atonement | | That's what Jesus did. The gulf between God and human beings is far greater than the distance between humans and birds, yet His grace spanned the great divide. Author: David Jeremiah
Topics: Grace | | All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book. Author: David Livingstone
Topics: Scripture | | To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Topics: Suffering, Endurance, The Cross | | Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ. Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Topics: Grace, Discipleship, Confession | | We must take ourselves in hand, and school ourselves, especially our wills, into a greater fitness for the serious business of living as Christian workers, of being ambassadors of Jesus Christ. Author: Duncan Campbell
Topics: Evangelism, Perseverance | | Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will. Author: E.M. Bounds
Topics: Prayer, Perseverance | | Why grow we weary when asked to watch with our Lord? Up, sluggish heart, Jesus calls thee! Rise and go forth to meet the Heavenly Friend in the place where He manifests Himself. Author: E.M. Bounds
Topics: God, The Heart | | Jesus endorsed the inspiration of the Old Testament, not only as "full" or "plenary," but even "literal" in the sense that the very letters of the words were inspired. Author: Edmund Clowney
Topics: Scripture | | Yes, to Jesus we come, for with richness of figurative language, wealth of ethical insight, and depth of redemptive-historical grasp we are brought by the Scriptures to Jesus. God spoke in diverse manners has spoken in a Son. What focus in brought to our preaching in this approach. Author: Edmund Clowney
Topics: Jesus, Scripture | | If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road - abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called. In Latin America someone who feels sorry for himself is said to look like a donkey in a downpour. If we think of the glorious fact that we are on the same path with Jesus, we might see a rainbow. Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Topics: Suffering, Adversity | | The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.' Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Topics: Happiness, Joy | | Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things work. It is an act of will, a choice, based on the unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ. Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Source: Secure in the Everlasting Arms, Revell, 2002
Topics: Faith, Feelings | | It is Christ who is to be exalted, not our feelings. We will know Him by obedience, not by emotions. Our love will be shown by obedience, not by how good we feel about God at a given moment. "And love means following the commands of God." "Do you love Me?" Jesus asked Peter. "Feed My lambs." He was not asking, "How do you feel about Me?" for love is not a feeling. He was asking for action. Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Source: Discipline - The Glad Surrender, Revell, 1982
Topics: Obedience, Feelings | | Don't ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified savior. Author: Erwin Lutzer
Topics: Religion, Jesus | | Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money's worth! He paid for ALL, and He has had but a fragment of our energy, time and earnings. By an act of consecration, let us ask Him to forgive the robbery of the past, and let us profess our desire to be henceforth utterly and only for Him - His slaves, owning no master other than Himself. Author: F.B. Meyer
Topics: Atonement, Consecration | | Jesus Christ, came into the world to glorify the Father, and the Holy Ghost came into the world to glorify the Son. Author: F.B. Meyer
Topics: Holy Spirit | | The church which is not a missionary church will be a missing church when Jesus comes. Author: F.B. Meyer
Topics: Church, Missions | | Where love is the compelling power, there is no sense of strain or conflict or bondage in doing what is right: the man or woman who is compelled by Jesus' love and empowered by His Spirit does the will of God from the heart. Author: F.F. Bruce
Source: Paul - Apostle of the Heart Set Free, Eerdmans
Topics: Love, The Heart | | God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite. Author: F.F. Bruce
Source: Hard Sayings of Jesus
Topics: Blessings | | Jesus defeated satan in Gethsemane on the cross, not by directly confronting the devil, but by fulfilling the destiny to which He had been called. The greatest battle that was ever won was accomplished by the apparent death of the victor, without even a word of rebuke to His adversary! Author: Francis Frangipane
Topics: The Cross, Satan | | Our first place of victory [over fear] is in believing the truth concerning our relationship with God. Paul tells us that, "having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom 5:1). We reject the lie that insists God is our enemy. We come to believe He is our Helper in the healing of our souls! Author: Francis Frangipane
Topics: Fear, Believing | | To those whose attitude is just Jesus and me I say, it is wonderful you found Jesus. But you cannot truly have Jesus and simultaneously not do what He says. The outgrowth of love and faith in Christ is love and faith like Christ's, which means we are committed, even as He is, to His people. Author: Francis Frangipane
Topics: Commitment | | I want them to know that they don't have to die in a car bomb, don't have to die in some kind of holy war to be accepted by God. But it's through faith in Jesus Christ and Christ alone. Author: Franklin Graham
Topics: Religion, Faith, Jesus | | The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments, the moments which, if we do not look with more than our eyes or listen with more than our ears reveal only...a gardener, a stranger coming down the road behind us, a meal like any other meal. But if we look with our hearts, if we listen with all our being and imagination.. what we may see is Jesus himself. Author: Frederick Buechner
Topics: Miracles | | It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did ... for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there have been untold numbers of men and women who, in untold numbers of ways, have been so grasped by the child who was born, so caught up in the message he taught and the life he lived, that they have found themselves profoundly changed by their relationship with him. Author: Frederick Buechner
Source: Listening to Your Life
Topics: Christmas, Life | | Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom," the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well. Author: Frederick Buechner
Source: Listening To Your Life
Topics: Prayer | | Our eyes are just our eyes and not all we have for seeing, maybe not even the best we have for seeing. Facts are all the eye can see, eyes cannot see truth. It's not with the eyes of the head that we see truths like that, but with the eyes of the heart. To see (Jesus) with the heart is to know, in the long run, that his life is the only life worth living. Author: Frederick Buechner
Topics: Truth | | Let us hide our pains and sorrows. But, while we hide them, let them also be spurs within us to urge us on to all manner of overflowing kindness and sunny humor to those around us. When the very darkness within us creates a sunshine around us, then has the spirit of Jesus taken possession of our souls. Author: Frederick W. Faber
Topics: Kindness | | Jesus promised the disciples three things - that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble. Author: G.K. Chesterton
Topics: Suffering | | The question of speaking to souls is a question of personal love to the Lord Jesus Christ. Do not say you have no gift for it. Do you love Christ? If so, you will never lose an opportunity of speaking a word for Him. Author: G.V. Wigram
Topics: Evangelism | | George Mueller, nothing. The Lord Jesus, everything. In himself worse than nothing. By grace, in Christ, the son of the King. Author: George Mueller
Topics: Christ | | Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again. Author: George Whitefield
Topics: Jesus, Atonement | | The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall. Author: George Whitefield
Topics: Jesus, Righteousness | | Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ. Author: George Whitefield
Topics: Atonement | | But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus. Author: George Whitefield
Topics: Obedience | | For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus. Author: George Whitefield
Topics: Jesus | | Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. Author: George Whitefield
Topics: Preaching, Heresy | | No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion. Author: George Whitefield
Topics: Christianity | | A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ. Author: George Whitefield
Topics: Idleness | | The way to Jesus is not by Cambridge and Oxford, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Socrates, Plato, Shakespeare or the poets--It is over an old-fashioned hill called Calvary. Author: Gipsy Smith
Topics: The Cross | | There are lots of people think you are not doing any spiritual work unless you are singing, "Come to Jesus." Author: Gipsy Smith
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