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
We have exposed ourselves to weariness; God has provided a resting-place for us.
—Jonathan Edwards
Don’t let infidelity come in and make us believe that God has got a deaf ear and cannot answer, or that His arm is shortened and He cannot deliver. Our God is a prayer-answering God.
—D. L. Moody
The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.
—Thomas Aquinas
Let me meditate awhile on the majesty and holiness of God.
—William Wilberforce
All sin at bottom is a sin against God. “Against thee, thee only have I sinned” is the cry of a true penitent. How terrible is the sin against God!
—J. Gresham Machen
Faith . . . reaches out in a single act to the person of Christ as well as to Scripture. It embraces Christ as Savior and Scripture as the word of God.
—Herman Bavinck
It is the Spirit of God alone who can make a person inwardly certain of the truth of divine revelation.
—Herman Bavinck
If persons do truly believe in God through the Lord Jesus Christ, no affliction that they meet with shall hurt them.
—Jonathan Edwards
“God, you are not only the greatest source of joy but you are all our joy.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“The more we know God, the more we shall love him.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Half-hearted worshippers are an insult to God.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Asking God to send you blessings in this life is like sitting at a spring and asking the spring to quench your thirst. You’ve been given every possible blessing. You only need to be able to use them.
—Leo Tolstoy
During life all has gone well with me, so far as God has ordered matters, and all the evil has been the result of my own follies.
—William Wilberforce
We by sin have brought upon ourselves a miserable slavery and bondage; God has made provision for our liberty.
—Jonathan Edwards
“You have been quickened by God according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenlies.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Man’s vocation is to serve God and all people, not to serve some people and do evil to others. Therefore a person who understands his vocation cannot consider himself a member of an individual state.
—Leo Tolstoy
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. – C.S. Lewis
My friends, let us take God at His word. Let us try Him. Let us prove Him. We will find that God is true.
—D. L. Moody