Oh that we may suffer only as christians, and then the spirit of CHRIST and of glory will rest upon us.
—George Whitefield
Christ is not only a remedy for your weariness and trouble, but he will give you an abundance of the contrary, joy and delight.
—Jonathan Edwards
You need not wish for the wings of a dove that you may fly afar off, and be at rest, but Christ is night at hand, if you were but sensible of it.
—Jonathan Edwards
If you do not come to Christ, you must either continue still weary and burdened, or, which is worse, you must return to your old dead sleep, to a state of stupidity; and not only so, but you must be everlastingly wearied with God’s wrath.
—Jonathan Edwards
There is no remedy but in Jesus Christ; there is nothing else will give you true quietness.
—Jonathan Edwards
When the sinner comes to Christ, it is all at once taken away, and the soul is left free, it is lightened of its burden, it is delivered from its bondage, and is like a bird escaped from the snare of the fowler.
—Jonathan Edwards
In Christ the very nature of God is discovered to be love and kindness; and that he will exercise the same to sinners, he hath promised, sworn and solemnly engaged himself by covenant.
—John Owen
Through Christ, come to God the Father, from whom you have departed by sin.
—Jonathan Edwards
Christ gives his Spirit, that calms the mind, and is like a refreshing breeze of wind.
—Jonathan Edwards
Simplicity is the very spirit of the gospel; therefore, the more we learn CHRIST, the more regardless we shall be of worldly vanities.
—George Whitefield
There is no *saving knowledge of any property of God*, nor such as brings *consolation*, but what alone is to be had in Christ Jesus, being laid up in him, and manifested by him.
—John Owen
The soul sees in Christ a way to peace with God, and a way by which the law may be answered, and justice satisfied, and yet he may escape; a wonderful way indeed, but yet a certain and a glorious one.
—Jonathan Edwards
There are many glimpses of the patience of God shining out in the works of his providence; but all exceedingly beneath that discovery of it which we have in Christ
—John Owen
*Love unto sinners*. Without this, man is of all creatures most miserable; and there is not the least glimpse of it that can possibly be discovered but in Christ.
—John Owen
My dear brother, call down a blessing by your prayers. The LORD will hear those who put their trust in his mercy through CHRIST.
—George Whitefield
This, then, for the present, may suffice in general to be spoken of the personal grace of the Lord Christ:- He hath a fitness to save, having pity and ability, tenderness and power, to carry on that work to the uttermost
—John Owen
All true and solid knowledge is laid up in, and is only to be attained from and by, the Lord Jesus Christ
—John Owen
Christ puts strength and a principle of new life into the weary soul that comes to him.
—Jonathan Edwards
If we suppose that Christ died without any absolute determination that any particular persons should be saved by his death, we must suppose that he undertook to die when he was wholly at uncertainties about the success of his death.
—Jonathan Edwards
The first and grand thing, is to get a true and lively faith in CHRIST JESUS, seeking for it by earnest prayer.
—George Whitefield
Many of those who are in Christ are condemned by others who are unjust judges.
—Jonathan Edwards
In the sufferings of Christ, the threatening of the law is already completely finished, that infinite punishment has been eternally gone through.
—Jonathan Edwards
Amazing, that ever sinners should sit with their Saviour! To what dignity has CHRIST exalted human nature. And how did he do it? Why, by humbling himself. Let us go and do likewise.
—George Whitefield
That such a person who was divine and so dear to the Father should suffer at all would have been a wonderful testimony of God’s hatred of sin. But specially it was so when Christ suffered so much.
—Jonathan Edwards
Now may He who from the dead
Brought the Shepherd of the sheep,
JESUS CHRIST, our King and Head,
All our souls in safety keep!
—John Newton
Many men & women who are troubled for their sin think God will be satisfied by their mourning. But mourning your heart out for 1,000 years will never satisfy the justice of God. Mourning will come to nothing, unless it leads
you to Jesus Christ for satisfaction of God’s justice.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Many men & women who are troubled for their sin think God will be satisfied by their mourning. But mourning your heart out for 1,000 years will never satisfy the justice of God. Mourning will come to nothing, unless it leads
you to Jesus Christ for satisfaction of God’s justice.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Since I came to understand the gospel of Jesus Christ, the great mystery of godliness in His Son, and the dealings of the Father with the Son, the Lord knows now that I abhor sin in secret more than I abhor hell itself.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Since I came to understand the gospel of Jesus Christ, the great mystery of godliness in His Son, and the dealings of the Father with the Son, the Lord knows now that I abhor sin in secret more than I abhor hell itself.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
We should study Christ, and praise and bless God, and have our hearts enlarged for Jesus Christ.
—Jeremiah Burroughs