- Growth of a Believer John Newton
Remember, the growth of a believer is not like a mushroom, but like an oak, which increases slowly indeed but surely.
Many suns, showers, and frosts, pass upon it before …
- His Sufferings vs. Yours John Newton
But how different were His sufferings—from yours! There is no sting in your rod—nor wrath in your cup!
- Scientific Men Charles Hodge
Scientific men give the name of science to their explanations as well as to the facts. Nay, they are often, and naturally, more zealous for their explanations than they …
- God Speaking John Newton
Though infidels and petty reasoners will, doubtless, labour to persuade themselves that [’the late dreadful hurricanes in the West Indies’] proceeded merely from natural …
- We Cannot Be So Evil as He is Good John Newton
Well, when we have said all we can of the aboundings of sin in us, grace still more abounds in Jesus.
We cannot be so evil as He is good. …
In ourselves we have cause to …
- Murray on Regeneration John Murray
If it were not the case that in regeneration we are passive, the subjects of an action of which God alone is the agent, there would be no gospel at all.
For unless God by …
- Temporal Wants John Lorimer
Our blessed Lord does not, like some of his professed followers, make light of temporal wants.
- On the benefits of a well functioning diaconate to the minister John Lorimer
He feels, that amid all his own difficulties and discouragements, he is not standing alone—that other are alive to his circumstances, and sympathise with him, and are …
- Mercy with Cheerfulness Apostle Paul
… the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
- Evil, Enormous Multiplication of Books Edgar Allen Poe
The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age. It presents one of the most serious obstacles to the …
- On the Invention of Telephones Mark Twain
If Bell had invented a muffler or gag, he would have done a real service. The human voice carries entirely too far as it is.
Here we have been hollering ‘shut up’ to our …
- Plod! Walter Moore
If I could engrave a single word on the heart of every young man with his life before him, it would be the short and homely word— Plod!
That is the secret of success. If …
- The Bible instruction of early youth Walter Moore
The Bible instruction of early youth affect the character all through life. You were the means of making me a preacher…
- Training our Sons Joel Beeke
Our sons need our training not to respond to unkindness with unkindness, but rather to remember Christ, who was never combative or defensive, but ever loving, kind, and …
- Spend and be Spent Horatius Bonar
Go, labor on; spend, and be spent, your joy to do the Father’s will; it is the way the Master went; should not the servant tread it still?
- Calvin on Being an Elder John Calvin
It is no light matter to be a representative of the Son of God, in discharging an office of such magnitude, the object of which is to erect and extend the kingdom of God, …
- Our Insignificant Selves John Newton
We take it for granted that the Sun, the Moon, Jupiter and the rest are exactly where they should be, and move just as they ought.
But if we are content the Lord should …
- Put your Sins Before You Augustine of Hippo
But the rewards of the Lord cannot be before your eyes unless your sins are before your eyes.
Let not delight in past sin be before your eyes, but let the condemnation of …
- What Will It Profit a Man? John Newton
What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary, if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, …
- A Message from God John Newton
When I hear a knock at my study door, I hear a message from God. It may be a lesson of instruction; perhaps a lesson of patience: but, since it is His message, it must be …
- No Neutrality in Words David Powlison
Some words are destructive, misleading, unnourishing (Eph. 4:29a); others are constructive, timely, true, loving, grace-giving (Eph. 4:15, 29b). None are neutral.
- Chrysostom on the Ignorance of Christians Chrysostom
If you ask [Christians] who is Amos or Obadiah, how many apostles there were or prophets, they stand mute; but if you ask them about the horses or drivers, they answer …
- Hears Me My Cattercisum J. Gresham Machen
It seems to me that sundays get nicer and nicer becous Poply reads me in pilgrime progres and hears me my cattercisum, and I like it very much.
- Modern Preachers J. Gresham Machen
Modern preachers are trying to bring men into the Church without requiring them to relinquish their pride; they are trying to help men avoid the conviction of sin.
The …
- Impeded acts of kindness John Calvin
…for nothing impedes and checks acts of kindness more than when any one is too much swallowed up with himself, so that he has no care for others, and follows only his own …
- Be Merciful Jesus
For He is gracious to the ungrateful and evil. Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.
- The Longsuffering of God John Newton
[The Lord] knows our frame and how to bear with us though we can hardly bear with ourselves, or with one another.
- Stop Being Judgmental Gabe Fluhrer
And it’s only when you know Jesus as Judge and judged in your place, that you will begin to stop being judgmental, and so will I.
- The Humbling Effect of Life John Newton
If you walk closely with God forty years, you will have a much lower opinion of yourself than you have now.
- Difficulty of Berivty Mark Twain
Anybody can have ideas — the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
- Challenge of Writing Lord Byron
Oh that I had the art of easy writing What should be easy reading!
- Restraint on a Christian J. Gresham Machen
The Christian is restrained from doing certain things. True!
But he is restrained from doing those things not in order that he may do nothing at all, but in order that he …
- The Deporable State of the Nation John Newton
The times look awfully dark indeed; and as the clouds grow thicker—the stupidity of the nation seems proportionally to increase. If the Lord had not a remnant here, I …
- Could We Bear from One Another? John Newton
Could we bear from one another,
What He daily bears from us?
Yet this glorious Friend and Brother,
Loves us though we treat Him thus:
Though for good we render ill,
He …
- Walk Humbly John Newton
May the Lord enable us to walk humbly—and then we shall walk safely; to such he will give more grace.
- The From... Too.. Movement of the Christian Life David Powlison
The central dynamic of the Christian life has this FROM… TO… movement. ‘Repentance is not merely the start of the Christian life; it is the Christian life,’ wrote Joel …
- Sibbes on The Best Men Richard Sibbes
The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.
- Vos on American Christianity Geerhardus Vos
We must confess with shame that the deepest cause of that lack of esteem for dogma and theology that we lament in American Christianity, is a lack of self-confidence, of …
- Religion that Stands J. Gresham Machen
The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases regardless of their meanings or shrinks from controversial matters will never stand amid the …
- Easy to Love in Memory John Updike
It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
- First Among You Jesus
…whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.
- Freedom from God’s Will? J. Gresham Machen
Emancipation from the blessed will of God always involves bondage to some worse taskmaster.
- Pulpit Bored with God Richard Phillips
The institution that has most failed America in our lifetimes is the evangelical pulpit that is bored with God and dares not have the temerity to speak the truth of a …
- Psalms for Dark Times Charles Spurgeon
When it is very dark with us, let brave spirits say, ‘Come, let us sing the forty-sixth Psalm.’
- Sin’s Footprint Ian Hamilton
One of sin’s ‘fingerprints’ is its consuming passion to praise self.
- Outlaw Conquerors Lord Byron
What want these outlaw conquerors should have But History’s purchased page to call them great?
- By Love, Bury Their Faults John Calvin
How it is possible that one who is in reality distinguished above others can reckon those to be superior to him who he knows are greatly beneath him?
Let him… employ …
- The Idol Self John Newton
Dear Lord, the idol self dethrone And from our hearts remove And let no zeal by us be shown But that which springs from love
- Obedience of Gratitude John Owen
Obedience is the best way of showing our gratitude to God for His grace.
- The Crowd and Hurry of Earthly Business John Flavel
And yet do not be so intent upon your particular callings as to make them interfere with your general calling.
Beware you do not lose your God in the crowd and hurry of …