“Impress the young convert from the very beginning with the coviction that God has called him into His kingdom to struggle with the corruptions of his heart.”

WILLIAM B. SPRAGUE

“Sin is naturally exceeding dear to us; to part with it is compared to plucking out our right eyes. Men may refrain from wonted ways of sin for a little while, and may deny their lusts in a partial degree, with less difficulty; but it is heart-rending work, finally to part with all sin, and to give our dearest lusts a bill of divorce, utterly to send them away. But this we must do, if we would follow those that are truly turning to God: yea, we must not only forsake sin, but must, in a sense, forsake all the world, Luke xiv.33 ‘Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.’”

JONATHAN EDWARDS

“Remember the perfections of that God whom you worship, that he is a Spirit, and therefore to be worshipped in spirit and truth; and that he is most great and terrible, and therefore to be worshipped with seriousness and reverence, and not to be dallied with, or served with toys or lifeless lip-service; and that he is most holy, pure, and jealous, and therefore to be purely worshipped; and that he is still present with you, and all things are naked and open to him with whom we have to do. The knowledge of God, and the remembrance of his all-seeing presence, are the most powerful means against hypocrisy.”

RICHARD BAXTER

 

“Most of God’s people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within.”

ROBERT MURRAY MCCHEYNE

 

“For every look at self take ten looks at Christ.”

ROBERT MURRAY MCCHEYNE

 

“It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.”

ROBERT MURRAY MCCHEYNE

 

“Paul was Nero’s prisoner, but Nero was much more God’s.”

WILLIAM GURNALL

 

“No, the Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.”

WILLIAM GURNALL

 

“Take heart therefore, O ye saints, and be strong; your cause is good, God himself espouseth your quarrel, who hath appointed you his own Son, General of the field, called ‘the Captain of our salvation,’ Heb 2:10.”

WILLIAM GURNALL

 

“O take heed of this squint eye to our profit, pleasure, honour, or anything beneath Christ and heaven; for they will take away your heart … that is, our love, and if our love be taken away, there will be little courage left for Christ.”

WILLIAM GURNALL

 

Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.

WILLIAM GURNALL

 

“Godliness is glory in the seed, and glory is godliness in the flower.”

THOMAS WATSON

“If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ingnorance of his danger.”

THOMAS WATSON