 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 |
| 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 |
| We need a baptism of clear seeing. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist--Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy. Author: A.W. Tozer
Topics: Evangelism, Religion, Vision |
| If I see aright, the cross of popular evangelicalism is not the cross of the New Testament. It is, rather, a new bright ornament upon the bosom of a self-assured and carnal Christianity. The old cross slew men, the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it. Author: A.W. Tozer
Topics: Carnality, Self-confidence |
| 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 |
| It is not your idea, not your understanding, not your thinking, not your reasoning, not even your profession of faith, that here can quench the thirst. The home-sickness goes out after God Himself... it is not the name of God but God Himself whom your soul desires and cannot do without. Author: Abraham Kuyper
Topics: God |
| 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 |
| When are Christian folks going to remember that every time you call yourself a Christian, you invoke the name of God, and that if you then walk a walk that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, cast a vote that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, then you are taking the name of the Lord your God in vain? Author: Alan Keyes
Topics: Christians, Hypocrisy |
| 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 |
| If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love. Author: Amy Carmichael
Topics: Truth |
| 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 |
A certain joyful, though humble, confidence becomes us when we pray in the Mediator's name. It is due to Him; when we pray in His name it should be without wavering. Remember His merits, and how prevalent they must be. "Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace."
- Nehemiah Adams Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Prayer, Joy |
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 |
| Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Repentance, Conversion, Surrender |
| 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 |
| I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Morality |
| 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 |
| Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Forgiveness |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions. Author: Charles Hodge
Topics: Power |
| The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act. Author: Charles Hodge
Topics: Leadership |
| 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. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer |
| 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 |
| A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Character, Death |
| We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Examples, Faithful |
| 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 |
