When God breaks into a life or a community, nothing else matters save the person of Jesus, the glory of Jesus, the name of Jesus.
– Stephen Olford –
Centrality of Christ
Knowledge and Love – Thomas Brooks
Knowledge and love, like water and ice, beget each other. Man loves Christ by knowing, and knows Christ by loving.
– Thomas Brooks –
Take Jesus at His Word – DL Moody
I believe that a ship will carry me across the ocean, because I have tried it. But, this will not help another man who wants to go, unless he acts on my knowledge. So knowledge of Christ does not help us unless we act on it. That is what it is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. It is to act on what we believe.
As a man steps on board ship to cross the Atlantic, so we must take Christ and make a commitment of our souls to Him. He has promised to keep all who put their trust in Him. To believe on the Lord Jesus Christ is simply to take Him at His word.
– DL Moody –
from The Way to God
Wonderful Love of Christ – Thomas Watson
It was wonderful love that Christ should die for such as we are. What are we? Not only vanity, but enmity. When we were fighting, he was dying; when we had the weapons in our hands, then he had the spear in his side (Romans 5:8).
– Thomas Watson –
from The Lords Supper, 1665
What the Church Is – Oswald Chambers
The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.
– Oswald Chambers –
The Grace of Christ – Matthew Henry
A man whose right hand was withered came to learn from Christ (see Luke 6:6). Whether he had any expectation to be healed by him does not appear. But those that would be cured by the grace of Christ must be willing to learn the doctrine of Christ.
– Matthew Henry –
No Flowers Without Roots – JC Ryle
We cannot have flowers without roots, or fruit without trees. We cannot have the fruit of the Spirit, without vital union with Christ, and a new creation within.
– JC Ryle –
from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels (Volume 2: Luke 6:27-38), 1856
Live on Christ and For Christ – Charles Spurgeon
Be earnest, be prayerful, be united. Study the Word, and practice it. Live on Christ, and live for Him.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from Letters of Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Preaching Christ Changes the Heart – Thomas Brooks
The teaching of this and that opinion may please a man’s fancy, but it is only the preaching of Christ that changes the heart, that conquers the heart, that turns the heart. Peter, by preaching a crucified Christ, converts three thousand souls at once.
– Thomas Brooks –