Let me beware, lest I make Christ the minister of sin, by comforting myself too easily when any temptation has prevailed over me, with the reflection, that I have a remedy at hand; it is only to humble myself and implore pardon,and, the promises being sure, to obtain forgiveness.
—William Wilberforce
Cross and crown, death and resurrection, humiliation and exaltation lie on the same line. As Jesus Himself put it after His resurrection: It was necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and so enter His glory (Luke 24:26).
—Herman Bavinck
“Let us labour after likeness to Christ, that he may be the firstborn among many brethren. Seek to bear the image of the heavenly, and to wear those jewels which adorn heavenly spirits.”
If you want to get heavenly wisdom you must pass through God’s college. Do you know where that is? Why, at the feet of Christ.
—D. L. Moody
The strongest proof of God’s love is that He gave Christ to die for our sins. That cross testifies of the love of God for this world.
—D. L. Moody
Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
—Blaise Pascal
I had great hopes of the ingathering of precious souls to Christ; not only among my own people, but others also.
—David Brainerd
Our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. He is a gracious master. Oh that I knew and loved him more! for he is altogether lovely.
—George Whitefield
Now, this *bunch* of hyssop, wherein the blood of purification was prepared for the sprinkling of the unclean, is (unto us) the free promises of Christ.
—John Owen
“Christ died”-that is history; “Christ died for our sins”-that is doctrine.
—J. Gresham Machen
Are you tried by your sin?
Jesus rose for your justification.
Does Satan accuse?
Jesus rose to be your advocate.
Do infirmities hinder?
The living Christ will show himself strong on your behalf.
Do you dread death?
Jesus has vanquished the last enemy.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Farewell, thou deadly love of sin; we have done with thee! Farewell, dead world, corrupt world; we have done with thee! Christ has raised us. Christ has given us eternal life.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“So that by virtue of our rising in Christ we have received life and have become the subjects of a wondrous change,— old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The application of Christ to the soul effectually, though it be so far wrought in the first saving work of the Spirit, as truly to unite the soul to Christ: yet it is a work gradually advancing in the believer’s soul, whilst it abides on this side heaven and glory.
—John Flavel
Faith . . . reaches out in a single act to the person of Christ as well as to Scripture. It embraces Christ as Savior and Scripture as the word of God.
—Herman Bavinck
If persons do truly believe in God through the Lord Jesus Christ, no affliction that they meet with shall hurt them.
—Jonathan Edwards
Christ calls, and they come forth, the call being accompanied with life and power.
—John Owen
“A precious Christ makes us precious: such honour have all the saints.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“If ye then be risen with Christ ye walk in newness of life, while the world abideth in death.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Christ is your life; such a life as you never knew before, nor could have known apart from him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The death of sin is procured by, and discovered in, the death of Christ
—John Owen
“Now, beloved, you are new creatures, the produce of a second birth, begotten again in Christ Jesus unto newness of life.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“You have been quickened by God according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenlies.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Oh, my brethren, believers in Jesus, you are not spiritually dead any longer; on Christ you have believed, and that grand act proves that you are no more dead.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“For, first, we were dead in trespasses and sins, but having believed in Christ we have been quickened by the Holy Ghost, and we are dead no longer.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The Lord, on the behalf of Christ, for his sake, because it is purchased and procured by him for us, bestows faith, and (by same rule) all grace upon us.
—John Owen
“[Christ] was our hostage and our representative, and when he came forth from his bonds, we came forth in him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Strive, O my soul, to maintain and keep alive impressions, first, of the constant presence of a holy, omniscient, omnipotent, but infinitely merciful and gracious God, of Christ our almighty shepherd, of the Holy Spirit, of the evil one, and the invisible world in general.
—William Wilberforce
“It is because we are in Christ that we become partakers of everything that Christ,— we are circumcised with him, dead with him, buried with him, risen with him, because we cannot be separated from him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
It is sweet to know and preach, the Christ justifies the ungodly, and that all truly good works are not so much as partly the cause, but the *effect* of our justification before God.
—George Whitefield