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"God helps those who cannot help themselves."

"It lies not in man's right nor in man's power truly to justify the guilty. This is a miracle reserved for the Lord alone. God, the infinitely just Sovereign, knows that there is not a just man upon ea…"

"The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction."

"In nothing shall the glory of God be marred."

"It is a great deal easier to set a story afloat than to stop it. If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will…"

"Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer."

"Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works hav…"

"I never wish to be more charitable than Christ. I find it written: "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

"The Christian should work as if all depended on him, and pray as if it all depended on God."

"It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too."

"Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior."

"Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work."

"The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers."

"There are a few of us who could scarcely do more than we are doing of our own regular order of work, but there may yet be spare moments for little extra efforts of another sort which in the aggregate,…"

"I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves."

"I would rather go to heaven doubting all the way, than be lost through self-confidence."

"I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to him."

"Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you."

"Everything the Spirit of God does is substance, not shadow. The baseless fabric of a vision is the work of man."

"Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary nee…"

"As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them."

"I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of men be added to …"

"The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity…"

"None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves."

"The preacher's work is to throw sinners down in utter helplessness, that they may be compelled to look up to Him who alone can help them."

"This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief."

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"My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will."

"The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him."

"There is no happiness comparable to a complete submergence of self into the glory of God."

"The Word of God can take care of itself, and will do so if we preach it, and cease defending it. See you that lion. They have caged him for his preservation; shut him up behind iron bars to secure him…"

"Can you by humble faith look to Jesus and say: "My substitute, my refuge, ray shield; Thou art my rock, my trust; in Thee do I confide? "Then, beloved, to you I have nothing to say, except this: " Nev…"

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"What we mean by salvation is this—deliverance from the love of sin, rescue from the habit of sin, setting free from the desire to sin."

"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how t…"

"Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly l…"

"No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth."

"You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect."

"Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite."

"My trust is not that I am holy, but that, being unholy, Christ died for me. My rest is here, not in what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is and must be,— in what Christ did and is…"

"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that."

"What a mercy it is that it is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but his hold of you!"

"The more we pray, the more we shall want to pray. The more we pray, the more we can pray. The more we pray, the more we shall pray. He who prays little will pray less, but he who prays much will pray …"

"I think I speak not too strongly when I say that a church in the land without the Spirit of God is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember you sta…"

"A man who does nothing never has time to do anything."

"There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below."

"Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and depends with our years."

"If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the s…"

"Every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled."

"Faith's Checkbook at What Saith the Scripture?"

"Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple."

"A child of God should be a visible Beatitude, for joy and happiness, and a living Doxology, for gratitude and adoration."

"He who does not love sinners cannot pray aright for them."

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."

"The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day."

"A philosopher has remarked that if a man knew that he had thirty years of life before him, it would not be an unwise thing to spend twenty of those years in mapping out a plan of living, and putting h…"

"If He bids us carry a burden, He carries it also."

"I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities."

"I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism."

"There are three stages of the human soul in connection with Christ. The first is 'without Christ.' This is the state of nature. The next is 'in Christ.' This is the state of grace. The third is “'with…"