There is nothing that reveals what is in the human heart so clearly as what a man does with 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
Who is man that he can stand and look God in the face?
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The sincerity of our profession much depends upon the care we exercise in keeping our hearts. Most certainly, that man who is careless of the frame of his heart, is but a hypocrite in his profession, however eminent he be in the externals of religion.
—John Flavel
There are men and women who have a sorrow of such a character that they cannot confide it to any human ear; and they say: “Nobody knows it. Nobody sympathizes with me.” Yes, there is One who knows, and He sympathizes with you—God.
—R. A. Torrey
There are men who worship gold just as really as if they had a sovereign hung up in their bedchamber, and said their prayers to it.
—R. A. Torrey
If you will be Christ’s, you must submit to all those means Christ has appointed for the mortification of your corruptions, be they never so hard: rebukes from God, rebukes from men, by afflictions, and by the Word, for the mortification of sin.
—John Flavel
When a man compares himself with others: thus measuring ourselves by ourselves, and comparing ourselves among ourselves, we show our folly and nourish our pride; but if any man will compare his own life with Christ’s, he will find abundant cause at every time to be humbled.
—John Flavel
I don’t know how others find it, but I am sure I find sin in my very bosom, in my very bowels; it is present with me. O wretched man that I am! A gracious soul can mourn to see in others, but to find it in himself pierces him to the very heart.
—John Flavel
Any one who is not a fisher of men is not following Christ.
—R. A. Torrey
God himself appears in our midst, and, as Author of this order, would have men recognize him as present in his church ~ Calvin
You can never convict a man of sin, because that is the work of the Holy Spirit. You can reason and reason and you will fail. It is ours to preach the Word and look to the Holy Spirit to produce conviction.
—R. A. Torrey
It is a great comfort to know that these might prophets of God We’re but men like ourselves and subject to the same frailties as ourselves.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
A man never gets acquainted with himself, but is always a surprise. We get news daily of the world within.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is any man or woman who thinks they have a complete mastery over themselves, if there is any man who thinks he has power to break away in his own strength from the sin that is within, he is a sadly deceived man.
—R. A. Torrey
The upright soul hates sin in himself more than he hates it in any other, as a man hates a serpent in the hedge, but much more in his own bosom: But I see another law in my members…I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me (Rom. 7:23, 21).
—John Flavel
It is important to know the mind of man. It is absolutely essential to know the mind of God. The place to discover the mind of God is the Bible. This is the Book in which God reveals His mind
—R. A. Torrey
There is more wisdom in the Bible than there is in all the other literature of the ages. The one who studies the Bible will know more of real wisdom than the man who reads every other book and neglects his Bible.
—R. A. Torrey
By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
—Georg Hegel
The Son Of God became man in order that He might be our perfect High Priest and be able to lead us to God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
I have found that the man who believes in the Bible always comes out ahead in the long run, and that the man who is too wise and too advanced to believe the Word of God come out behind, in the long run, every time.
—R. A. Torrey
Oftentimes, that which is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
—R. A. Torrey
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
—Charles Darwin
The church is made up men and women, imperfect men and women, and consequently it is an imperfect institution, but none the less it is of divine origin and God loves it, and every believer should realize that he belongs to it and should openly take his place in it.
—R. A. Torrey
Sin is that which has defiled God’s work, God’s image, in man and woman.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Put your trust in nothing of man, but in God alone!
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
You can tell a man who is filled by the Holy Spirit; he is all the time talking about Christ, has nothing to say of himself, but is constantly holding Jesus Christ up as an all-sufficient Savior.
—D. L. Moody
Never let the rush of business crowd out prayer. Prayer is the greatest time saver known to man. The more work crowds you, the more time you should take for prayer.
—R. A. Torrey
Many a man that shines and glitters now on the platform will soon be forgotten, but the man or woman who does anything for Christ will never be forgotten.
—D. L. Moody
There is no limit to God’s power. That is the great mistake with men; they are always limiting God’s power by their own.
—D. L. Moody