“He that believes in Christ shall be delivered from sin, he shall trample it under his feet; he may have a life-long battle with it, nay, I am sure he will have that, else Christ would never have taught his disciples to pray, Lead us not into temptation.”
Christ manifests and evidences his love to his saints in a *way of bounty*, – in that rich, plentiful provision he makes for them.
—John Owen
A man cannot possibly be an “evangelical” or a “conservative” (or, as he himself would say, simply a Christian) and regard the Cross of Christ as a trifle.
—J. Gresham Machen
I know CHRIST is all in all. Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till GOD worketh in him to will and to do after his good pleasure.
—George Whitefield
“It is that, by faith in Christ, the ruling power of sin is immediately broken, and that every sin, of every kind, may be overcome by faith in the blood of Jesus Christ.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Shall I not tell to others what the grace of God has done for me? Shall I not lay hold of every poor sinner’s hand, and say, Look you to Christ, and you also shall be saved, even as I was?”
– Charles Spurgeon
“[…]there is pardon for the greatest guilt through faith in Jesus Christ, — that his precious blood, shed on Calvary’s cross, is able to cleanse from all sin of every kind, and that as many as believe in him are saved.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Oh, to preach Christ in a Christly way, — to tell of mercy in the spirit of mercy, and to preach grace in a truly gracious way!”
– Charles Spurgeon
“[…]go direct to Christ for truth, and you will preach it strongly, honestly, openly, positively, but you will always preach it with love.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“If Christ was punished for my sins, I can never be punished for them.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“When the truth of God has broken your heart, and afterwards bound it up; when Christ has so spoken it to you that you have felt the power of it, then you will speak it as men should speak who are ambassadors for God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“[…]there is nothing like going to the Lord Jesus Christ himself as to the well-head of doctrine, and saying to him, Master, what dost thou teach? What can I learn from thee?”
– Charles Spurgeon
Christ pleads the cause of believers by his blood. Unlike other advocates, it is not enough for him to lay out only words, which is a cheaper way of pleading; but he pleads for us by the voice of his own blood (Heb.12:24).
—John Flavel
“[Christ] is our salvation, and we shall never put that salvation in tangible, graspable, real form unless we go to him, and get distinctly from himself the message we are to deliver on his behalf.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Above all, we need often to go to Christ, to get from his hand a fresh stock of that gospel provision which we are afterwards to dispense to the people in his name.”
– Charles Spurgeon
When all the elect are brought home in a reconciled state in Christ, when the marriage of the Lamb is come, our work and office expire together.
—John Flavel
In Christ, justice and mercy embrace, suffering is the road to glory, the cross points to a crown, and the timber of the cross becomes the tree of life.
—Herman Bavinck
The great aim and scope at all Christ’s ordinances and officers, are to bring men into union with Christ, and so build them up to perfection in him; or to unite them to, and confirm them in Christ.
—John Flavel
Bear in mind that God does not see as you see. These very men that the world applauds and that so many try to imitate are the very men that Christ calls fools.
—D. L. Moody
“The message of the gospel is applied by Christ directly and distinctly to our own soul.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Christ died, but he is not dead now. He is risen; he has gone up into his glory; he sits upon the throne of God; but, at the same time, by a very real spiritual presence he is with all his people, as he said to his disciples[…]”
– Charles Spurgeon
“[…]Christ is still alive, and still with his people, still conversing with his chosen ones, still by his Divine Spirit speaking out of his very heart into the hearts of his true disciples.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Let us believe great things from the work of Christ by his Spirit in the midst of his people’s hearts, and we shall not be disappointed.”
– Charles Spurgeon
There is quiet rest and sweet refreshment in Christ for those that are wearied with persecutions.
—Jonathan Edwards
Men don’t like to have Christ preached faithfully; but it is just what they don’t like to have that we must give them. I learned that long ago. The very truths that men object to, and that make them angry, are the truths that bring them to the cross of Christ.
—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
“So, if we are afraid that the devil should get in among us let us always in prayer entreat that there may be no space for the devil, because the Lord Jesus Christ fills all, and keeps out the adversary.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“In the empty tomb of Christ, we see sin forever put away and death destroyed.”
— Charles Spurgeon
The church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man.
—J. Gresham Machen
The Lord Jesus Christ, with all his precious benefits, becomes ours, by God’s special and effectual application.
—John Flavel