Truly God is a ‘present help in time of trouble.’
—David Brainerd
…upon a day of thanksgiving kept in this place, I was enabled to recall and recount over the mercies of God, in such a manner as greatly affected me, and filled me with thankfulness and praise.
—David Brainerd
I believe the more I study science, the more I believe in God.
—Isaac Newton
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
—Isaac Newton
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
—Aristotle
It may much conduce to your willingness to die to consider that by death God oftentimes hides His people out of the way of all temptations and troubles upon earth.
—John Flavel
(2 Cor. 7:1) Here’s the work of a Christian, cleansing work, and perfecting work in the fear of God, to the end of our lives…. He that is contented with these terms is surely Christ’s as ever was any soul.
—John Flavel
Are you contented to embrace all corrections from the hand of God for the killing of the remainders of sin in you? If you will be for Christ, you must submit to Christ’s: It is in vain to say, If I can travel to heaven without meeting a storm in the way, I am willing to go
—John Flavel
O my friends, it is not enough that the object of your duties is spiritual, that they respect a holy God or that the matter is spiritual, that you be conversant about holy things; but that the frame of your heart must be spiritual, a heavenly temper of soul is necessary.
—John Flavel
To complete the happiness of the redeemed; Christ is not only made of God unto them wisdom and righteousness, the one curing our ignorance, the other our guilt; but he is made sanctification also, to relieve us against the dominion and pollutions of our corruptions.
—John Flavel
To suffer sin to lodge quietly in the heart, to let thy heart habitually and without control wander from God, is a sad, a dangerous symptom indeed.
—John Flavel
If he (the truly gracious soul) and his God have not met in secret and had some communion in the morning, he sensibly finds it in the deadness and unprofitableness of his heart and life all the day after.
—John Flavel
The engagements of men’s hearts to God in duties will tell them what they are. The hypocrite takes little heed to his heart. They are not afflicted really for the hardness, deadness, unbelief, and wanderings of their hearts in duty as upright ones are.
—John Flavel
A true minister of the gospel will feed us on the Word of God, but that is not enough. He feeds us but one or two days of the week, and we need to be fed every day.
—R. A. Torrey
Strive to be Christ-like, if ever you would be lovely in the eyes of God and man. Certainly, my brethren, it is only the Spirit of Christ within you, and the beauty of Christ upon you, which can make you lovely persons.
—John Flavel
As the fear of God, so the love of God is a principle of restraint from sin to the soul that is upright. This kept back Joseph from sin: How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
—John Flavel
Can you say, Christians, that you are willing to have your mistakes directed by God or men, your corruptions discovered, anything that helps to the pulling up the roots of corruption? Surely thus it must be if you will be for Christ, all faithful admonitions and afflictions.
—John Flavel
It is not a question of what we feel, but of what God says. God’s Word is always to be believed. Our own feelings are oftentimes to be doubted.
—R. A. Torrey
Still good advice (whether pocket Bibles or phones):
In everyone’s life many minutes each day are lost, waiting for meals, riding on trains, etc. … Carry a pocket Bible with you, and save those golden moments by putting them to the very best use, listening to the voice of God.
—R. A. Torrey
The Holy Spirit can take a man whose mind is blind to the truth of God, whose will is at enmity with God, whose affections are corrupt and vile, and transform that man, impart to him a new nature, so that he thinks God’s thoughts, love what God loves, and hate what God hates.
—R. A. Torrey
There is only one ground upon which man may meet God with joy and not with despair. That ground is the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.
—R. A. Torrey
Any one of us, no matter how outcast or vile, can go boldly into the Holy of Holies on the ground of the shed blood, and the best man or woman that ever walked this earth can meet God on no other ground than the shed blood.
—R. A. Torrey
Your heart may be kept from shrinking back at [death] by considering the necessity of death, in order to the full fruition of God. Whether you are willing to die or not, I assure you there is no other way to obtain the full satisfaction of your soul and complete its happiness.
—John Flavel
Unite with a church where they believe in the Bible and where they preach the Bible. Avoid the churches where words are spoken, open or veiled, that have a tendency to undermine your faith in the Bible as a reliable revelation from God, the only rule of faith and practice.
—R. A. Torrey
If God be a God of so much mercy, how can I abuse so good a God? Shall I take so glorious an attribute as the mercy of God is and abuse it unto sin?
—John Flavel
If yet your heart hangs back (from thoughts of death), consider the great advantage you will have by death above all that ever you enjoyed on earth. For your communion with God, the time of perfecting that is now come.
—John Flavel
If you take your problem to God, leave it with God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Close the day with thanksgiving and prayer. Review all the blessings of the day and thank God in detail for them. Nothing goes farther to increase faith in God and in His Word than a calm review at the close of each day of what God has done for you that day.
—R. A. Torrey
We must learn to see God in his holy temple above the flux of history, and above the changing scenes of time.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Who is man that he can stand and look God in the face?
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones