Cross and crown, death and resurrection, humiliation and exaltation lie on the same line. As Jesus Himself put it after His resurrection: It was necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and so enter His glory (Luke 24:26).
—Herman Bavinck
“Without the death of Jesus, nothing remains for us but death.”
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
Our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. He is a gracious master. Oh that I knew and loved him more! for he is altogether lovely.
—George Whitefield
“Understanding the love of Jesus lifts the mind above all fear.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Let us spend our risen life on earth as Jesus spent his,— in a greater seclusion from the world and in greater nearness to heaven than ever.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Are you tried by your sin?
Jesus rose for your justification.
Does Satan accuse?
Jesus rose to be your advocate.
Do infirmities hinder?
The living Christ will show himself strong on your behalf.
Do you dread death?
Jesus has vanquished the last enemy.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Our Jesus lives, and because he lives we shall live also, world without end.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The Lord Jesus loves his people so much, that every day he is still washing thier soiled feet.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Preach the truth as it is in Jesus. Not a righteousness or inward holiness of our own, whereby we may make ourselves meet, but a righteousness of another, even the Lord our righteousness
—George Whitefield
If persons do truly believe in God through the Lord Jesus Christ, no affliction that they meet with shall hurt them.
—Jonathan Edwards
How happy is it, when all are of one mind in a house; all agreed to entertain and love the Lord Jesus. Their heaven is begun on earth.
—George Whitefield
“Now, beloved, you are new creatures, the produce of a second birth, begotten again in Christ Jesus unto newness of life.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Oh, my brethren, believers in Jesus, you are not spiritually dead any longer; on Christ you have believed, and that grand act proves that you are no more dead.”
– Charles Spurgeon
If Satan, therefore, shall come to any believer and say, ‘What about your sin?’
tell him Jesus died for it, and your sin is put away.
— Charles Spurgeon
Ah, people are so patronizing in the presence of Jesus today. They say such kind, polite things about him.
—J. Gresham Machen
Men say they don’t want to give up their freedom. There is no freedom until a man knows the Lord Jesus Christ. A man is slave to sin, to his passions and lusts until Christ snaps the fetters and sets him free.
—D. L. Moody
“Rest in the finished work of the Lord Jesus, and put all your reliance upon him as crucified, risen, and pleading for his people.”
— Charles Spurgeon
If, in the righteousness, the goodness, the love, the mercy, the all-sufficiency of God, there be any thing that will do us good, the Lord Jesus is fully interested with the dispensing of it in our behalf.
—John Owen
If, in the righteousness, the goodness, the love, the mercy, the all-sufficiency of God, there be any thing that will do us good, the Lord Jesus is fully interested with the dispensing of it in our behalf.
—John Owen
“Baptism is a sweet emblem of my death to all the world!
May I, from now on, live only for Jesus!”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Blessed be the name of our gracious God, he knows how to erase the evil and to cleanse the soul through his Holy Spirit’s applying the work of Jesus to us.”
– Charles Spurgeon
As a boy, I was not a Christian. I did not have the privilege of growing up in a home where Christ was known and loved. God spoke to me through a street preacher who quoted the words of Jesus, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.”
—AW Tozer
While we are settling the date of Jesus’ birth, the world is doing without its Christmas message.
—J. Gresham Machen
Lift up your voice like a trumpet, and preach the truth as it is in JESUS.
—George Whitefield
“Salvation by grace, through faith in Jesus, is no dream, no fiction, let sceptics say what they will.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Once perishing in blood I lay,
Creatures no help could give,
But Jesus passed me in the way,
He saw, and bid me live.
—John Newton
[Jesus] was conscious of standing at the turning-point of the ages, when what had never been was now to come to be.
—J. Gresham Machen
“The ills of life are turned into blessings when once a man believes in Jesus, and fully trusts in him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can make poverty to be sweet, and sickness to be borne with patience.”
– Charles Spurgeon