On earth Christians enjoy Christ by drops; in Heaven they shall enjoy the fullness of the ocean.
Christopher Love
A Christian is not poor, who is rich in grace; a man is not miserable, who has Christ for his portion.
William Gearing
O may I grow in fear and love in desire to change worlds, in devotedness to Christ and his service.
—William Wilberforce
“To this very day, the ungodly are afraid of Christ, and, often, their raging against him resembles the noise made by the boy who, when hurrying through the graveyard, whistles to keep his courage up.”
The church is a divine institution, built by Jesus Christ Himself. It is the one institution that abides. Other institutions come and go; they do their work for the day and disappear, but the church will continue to the end.
—R. A. Torrey
Pure and undefiled religion consists in a lively faith in JESUS CHRIST, as the only mediator between GOD and man.
—George Whitefield
“Cling to Christ, beloved.
Go no further than he leads you.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Be consumed with love for Christ and let the flame burn continuously.”
— Charles Spurgeon
There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made know through Jesus Christ.
—Blaise Pascal
“The great redemptive work is for ever finished, and Christ has done it all. “
– Charles Spurgeon
“It was the joy of Christ that he should finish the work which his Father gave him to do; and he has finished it, and therefore he is glad; will not you also rejoice in his finished work?”
– Charles Spurgeon
To think of parting with peace, health, liberty, relations, wives, children; it is offensive, heavy, and grievous to the best of the saints: but their souls cannot bear the thoughts of parting with Jesus Christ; such a thought is cruel as the grave.
—John Owen
To think of parting with peace, health, liberty, relations, wives, children; it is offensive, heavy, and grievous to the best of the saints: but their souls cannot bear the thoughts of parting with Jesus Christ; such a thought is cruel as the grave.
—John Owen
Study to show the simplicity of JESUS CHRIST, and strive to imitate those holy matrons, who not only administered to our LORD of their substance, but also followed him to the accursed tree.
—George Whitefield
“How gloriously has Christ rolled away the great load of human sin, adequately recompensed the claims of divine justice, and magnified the law, and made it honourable!”
– Charles Spurgeon
“[…]you have the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Friend, your Divine Companion; you are going to sit and feast with him presently at his own table.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Our Christ is not dead.
He still holds the stars in his right hand.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“The Father himself loveth you, declares Christ; so, surely, you share Christ’s joy, and that fact should make your own joy full.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“It ought to fill us with delight to know that we are loved of the Lord, with an everlasting and infinite love, even as Jesus Christ is loved.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“We preach not man’s merit, but Christ crucified.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“But when our Lord Jesus Christ sees us doing much for God, he is pleased with us, as the gardener is when, having planted a tree, and digged about it, and manured it, and pruned it, he sees it at last covered with golden fruit.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“What greater joy can a man have than to feel that he is pleasing Christ?”
– Charles Spurgeon
“If you continue, day by day, to walk with God carefully and prayerfully, and to abide in Christ continually, he will look upon you with eyes of satisfaction and delight[…]”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Preach Christ, and Christ, and Christ, and Christ, and nothing else but Christ.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Freely we have received, freely let us give; what CHRIST tells us by his Spirit in our closets, that let us proclaim on the house top.
—George Whitefield
The knowledge of him as a God in Christ pardoning sin and saving sinners is attainable by the gospel only.
—John Owen
Rejoice in Christ and resist every temptation to doubt his love as you would resist a temptation to adultery or murder.
—John Newton
Jesus Christ did not say, ‘Go into all the world and tell the world that it is quite right.’ – C.S. Lewis
There is in Christ quiet rest and sweet refreshment for God’s people, when wearied with the buffetings of Satan.
—Jonathan Edwards
Christ and a dungeon, Christ and a cross, is infinitely sweeter than a crown, a sceptre without him
—John Owen