“If there be any doctrine too difficult for a child, it is rather the fault of the teacher’s conception of it than of the child’s power to receive it, provided that child be really converted to God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The sons of God have a right and title to all, in that they are made heirs with Christ.
—John Owen
If the world has nothing to say against you, it is a pretty sure sign that God has not much to say for you, for if you do seek to live unto Christ Jesus, you must go against the current of the world.
—D. L. Moody
It is a blessed thing to live upon God. Did ever any trust in him and was forsaken?
—George Whitefield
Every person must remember that political borders and the multitude of governmental authorities are human creations, and that before God we are all inhabitants of one and the same Earth and all subject to God’s law, not some human authority.
—Leo Tolstoy
God has condescended to touch our hearts…by the wonderful variety and beauty of his Book.
—J. Gresham Machen
“Because God is infinitely happy, he delights in the happiness of his creatures.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Our one instrument as fishers for Christ is the gospel of the grace of God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“We ought to work as if all depended upon us,
and then we are to trust God knowing that all depends on him.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Let your petitions be presented as if you believed in God and had no doubt as to the efficacy of prayer.
— Charles Spurgeon
God suffers his dear children to fall into little miscarriages, that the eye may not say to the hand, ‘I have not need of thee;’ or again, the head to the foot, ‘I have no need of thee.’
—George Whitefield
Yes, thank God, he has conquered Death and the grave; and you can shout now, “O grave, where is thy victory!” He went down into the grave and conquered it, and came up out of it; and now he says, “Because I live, ye shall live also.”
—D. L. Moody
There is no more lively image of heaven than an assembly of Christians praising God.
—Jonathan Edwards
“O to love God with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our mind, and with all our strength: that is what the law required, it is what the gospel enables us to render.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Every ceremony is fulfilled in Christ. Sunday is the day of resurrection.
Under the Old Testament the pattern was first work, then rest– that is, the worship of God.
—Herman Bavinck
Without the resurrection, the death of Christ was only the heroic death of a noble martyr, with the resurrection, it is the atoning death of the Son of God.
—R. A. Torrey
All human tragedies are a result of human blindness, of man’s inability to see the God who lives within him and sees Him in all people.
—Leo Tolstoy
‘God is love’. This is the sacred principle which warms and enlightens the heavenly world, that blessed seat of God’s visible presence.
—William Wilberforce
How becoming a thing is it that we should love and bless God, seeing he does so much for us and requires nothing also as a return but the sacrifices of thanksgiving.
—Jonathan Edwards
“[Christ] is sitting at the right hand of God in the place of honour and favour. This is a proof that we are beloved and favoured of God, for our representative has the choicest place, at God’s right hand.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Thanks be to God, we do not worship a dead Savior.
—D. L. Moody
“If ye then be risen with Christ, live according to your risen nature, for your life is hid with Christ in God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Enjoy whatsoever brings glory to God, and promotes peace and goodwill among men.
—John Wesley
God’s praise is comely and beautiful because the very business of it is to manifest and show forth the excellency, comeliness, and beauty of God.
—Jonathan Edwards
O blessed be God that I may pray!
—David Brainerd
According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal Church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.
—J. Gresham Machen
“Seek also heavenly objects. Aim at the glory of God in everything.”
– Charles Spurgeon
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
Thanks be to God, the Spirit helpeth our infirmities, even the mental infirmity of subjection to interruptions when we least desire them.
—Amy Carmichael