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
“The Lord Jesus loves his people so much, that every day he is still washing thier soiled feet.”
Let me pray for all my fellow-creatures, for all that are in pagan ignorance, particularly for the poor negroes, both in Africa the the West Indies. O Lord, do Thou at length visit them with spiritual blessings and a termination of their temporal sufferings. Amen.
—William Wilberforce
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
The Lord, on the behalf of Christ, for his sake, because it is purchased and procured by him for us, bestows faith, and (by same rule) all grace upon us.
—John Owen
“The resurrection blessing is to be perfected by-and-by at the appearing of our Lord and Saviour, for then our bodies shall rise again, if we fall asleep before his coming.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Every first day of the week we should meditate upon the rising of our Lord, and seek to enter into fellowship with him in his risen life.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The resurrection of our divine Lord from the dead is the corner-stone of Christian doctrine.”
– Charles Spurgeon
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.”
—Voltaire
“Can you count the [kingly] drops of his redeeming blood and then go back to live in the iniquity which cost the Lord so dear? Impossible!”
– Charles Spurgeon
My Lord has given me a sling and a stone; stripling as I am, I will go forth then in his strength, make mention of his righteousness only, and by that lay prostrate many *Goliaths*.
—George Whitefield
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
—Thomas Aquinas
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
“Instead of saying, I would keep away from the assembly of God’s people if I could, the newborn nature wishes like David to dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“When it becomes a misery to serve God, then indeed the heart is far away from spiritual health; for when the heart is renewed, it delights to worship and serve the Lord.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“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
It is possible to lose ground because of some private refusal to the will of God at the point where it crossed our natural will, and if this happens, the Lord cannot fulfill His purpose in us.
—Amy Carmichael
“It is a glorious thing when the heart delights itself in the law of the Lord, and finds therein its solace and pleasure.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Help me, O Lord, without Thee I can do nothing.
—William Wilberforce
“May the Lord cause his Word to prove its power in us by its making us fruitful unto every good work to do his will.”
— Charles Spurgeon
If the devil cannot make a man feel that he is good enough without being saved, then he will tell him he is so bad the Lord will have nothing to do with him.
—D. L. Moody
“We must have the Word of the Lord.
With this Word alone we can withstand the devil.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
—Isaac Newton
Oh then pray, pray, be earnest, press forward and follow on to know the Lord.
—William Wilberforce
The very existence of the Christian church is a mighty testimony to the resurrection of our Lord.
—J. Gresham Machen
“Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can make poverty to be sweet, and sickness to be borne with patience.”
– Charles Spurgeon