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With all the stir made about education, the ignorance of our own country's history is something lamentable and appalling and depressing.
Light from Old Times (1890)
Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Luke (1858)
A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone.
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Luke (1858)
Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
A Call to Prayer (1867)
Assurance is more than life. It is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.
Startling Questions (1853)
The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must "plead guilty" before God can declare us innocent.
Knots Untied (1877)
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be got by hard, regular, daily, attentive, wakeful reading.
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Matthew (1856)
Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Mark (1857)
A true worshipper will every year know more of self, and God, and heaven, and duty, and doctrine, and practice, and experience. His religion is a living thing, and will grow.
Knots Untied (1877)
There are some things of which we never know the value of till they are taken from us.
Practical Religion (1878)
The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots (1877)
The end to which good men's libraries finally come is a melancholy subject. Few things are so much loved by some, and despised and neglected by others, as books, and specially theological books.
Light from Old Times (1890)
However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Luke (1858)
Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. John (1865)
It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Mark (1857)
Before Christ comes, it is useless to expect to see a perfect Church.
Practical Religion (1878)
Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
Startling Questions (1853)
Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, are the worst.
The Upper Room (1888)
A hopeful growing believer is a walking sermon. He preaches far more than I do, for he preaches all the week round, shaming the unconverted, sharpening the converted, showing to all what grace can do.
Startling Questions (1853)
Let your Christianity be so unmistakeable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are and whom you serve.
Old Paths (1878)