From this it further follows, when a Christian does good works and shows love to his neighbor, that he does not thereby become a Christian or pious, but before this is done he must have been a Christian and pious. He indeed does good works, but his good works do not make him a Christian. The tree brings or yields good fruit, but the fruit does not make the tree good. So also here, no one becomes a Christian through his works, but through Christ.
– Martin Luther –
How beautiful are the arms, which have embrace Christ, the eyes which have gazed upon Christ, the lips which have spoken with Christ, the feet which have followed Christ. How beautiful are the hands which have worked the works of Christ, the feet which treading in His footsteps have gone about doing good, the lips which have spread abroad His Name, the lives which have been counted for Him.
– Christina Rossetti –
The message is not just a spoken message but also a demonstrated message.
– Stephen Manley –
The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.
– AW Tozer –
Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores – more than abundantly – what it takes away.
– Jim Elliot –
And so it had gotten down to the place where salvation was nothing more than the assent to a scheme or a formula.
– Paris Reidhead –
The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.
– CH Spurgeon –
Other men may preach the gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.
– George Whitefield –
See to it that we pray more than we preach, and we will never preach ourselves out.
– AW Tozer –