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.”
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
That is really the very height of preaching, when men make themselves nothing and Christ everything.
—D. L. Moody
If we rest in Christ’s atoning work we shall do good works, but they will be the outcome of being saved and the outcome of believing on Christ as our sin-bearer. Our good works will not be the ground of our salvation, but the result of our salvation and the proof of it. 2/2
—R. A. Torrey
Men say they don’t want to give up their freedom. There is no freedom until a man knows the Lord Jesus Christ. A man is slave to sin, to his passions and lusts until Christ snaps the fetters and sets him free.
—D. L. Moody
The application of Christ, by the work of regeneration, is that which yield unto men all the sensible sweetness and refreshing comforts that they have in Christ, and in all that he has done, suffered, or purchased for sinners.
—John Flavel
Surely, dear Sir, the love of CHRIST must constrain us to spend and be spent for the good of souls.
—George Whitefield
The work which has been intrusted to Christ is nothing less than that of reconciling the creation unto God.
—J. Gresham Machen
‘Why, this is mine,’ says Christ; ‘this agreement I made with my Father, that I should come, and take thy sins, and bear them away: they were my lot. Give me thy *burden*, give me all thy *sins*..’
—John Owen
When Christ died, he died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world. – C.S. Lewis
To have faith in Christ means to cease trying to win God’s favor by one’s own character.
—J. Gresham Machen
With respect to the death of Christ, there is a great difference betwixt one man and another; he laid down his life for the sheep, he prayed for them, and not for the world.
—John Flavel
He who has communion with Christ, when he is *highest in duties of sanctification and holiness, is clearest in the apprehension of his own unprofitableness*, and rejects every thought that might arise in his heart of setting is peace in them, or upon them.
—John Owen
He who has communion with Christ, when he is *highest in duties of sanctification and holiness, is clearest in the apprehension of his own unprofitableness*, and rejects every thought that might arise in his heart of setting is peace in them, or upon them.
—John Owen
While everything in the Old Testament was in preparation for Christ, everything now stems from him. Christ is the turning point of time. The promise made to Abraham extends now out to all nations.
—Herman Bavinck
As a boy, I was not a Christian. I did not have the privilege of growing up in a home where Christ was known and loved. God spoke to me through a street preacher who quoted the words of Jesus, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.”
—AW Tozer
Christ our Captain is calling for volunteers; here are the terms: Whosoever shall lose his life for My sake and the Gospel’s the same shall find it.
—Amy Carmichael
God hath committed all his properties into the hand of Christ if I may so say, to be managed in our behalf, and for our good.
—John Owen
Not just Christ, but all the sages of the world—Brahmins, Buddhists, Taoists, and the Greek sages—taught that rational people repay evil with good, not with evil.
—Leo Tolstoy
Attend to living; and if you can’t have the honors of the country as the other citizens do, let it suffice you to have bread and live virtuously in Christ and poorly.
—Michelangelo
“Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can make poverty to be sweet, and sickness to be borne with patience.”
– Charles Spurgeon
If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.
—Thomas Aquinas
“Faith in Christ can make even trouble to be welcome, and affliction to be regarded as a gain.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“[…] I must mention one other thing that I know; it is that faith in Christ can save a man from every sort of fear in life and in death.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Oh! if there be a harlot here, or a man who has fallen into all sorts of gross sin, Christ can and will deliver you if you will only come and repose your heart’s trust in him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
There is no joy in this world like union with Christ.
The more we can feel it, the happier we are.
— Charles Spurgeon
“Brother, have you fallen into drunkenness? Faith in Christ can turn that cup bottom upwards for you.”
– Charles Spurgeon