Salvation

What the Grace in the Gospel Is – Richard Sibbes

You see, then, that the grace in the gospel is not mere persuasion and entreaty, but a powerful work of the Spirit entering into the soul and changing it, and altering the inclination of the will heavenward. We must have great notions of the work of grace. The Scripture has great words of it. It is an alternation, a change, a new man, a new creation, a new birth.

– Richard Sibbes –
from Glorious Freedom, 106

Never Water Down the Gospel – Oswald Chambers

Never water down or minimize the mighty Gospel of God by considering that people may be misled by certain statements. Present the Gospel in all its fullness and God will guard His own truth.

– Oswald Chambers –

Why We Work – DL Moody

We work because we are saved. We do not work to be saved. We work from the cross, but not toward it. (see Ephesians 2:8-10)

– DL Moody –
from his book The Way to God 

Build Upon the Work Within You – George Whitefield

My dear friends beware of resting on your first conversion. You that are young believers in Christ, you should be looking out for fresh discovering of the Lord Jesus Christ every moment; you must not build upon your past experiences, you must not build upon a work within you, but always come out of yourselves to the righteousness of Jesus Christ without you; you must be always coming as poor sinners to draw water out of the wells of salvation; you must be forgetting the things that are behind, and be continually pressing forward to the things that are before. My dear friends, you must keep up a tender, close walk with the Lord Jesus Christ.

– George Whitefield –
from Select Sermons of George Whitefield

The Sweeter Are Our Reliefs – John Flavel

The more prayers and searchings of heart come between our needs and supplies, our afflictions and reliefs, the sweeter are our reliefs and supplies thereby made to us. “Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us; this is the Lord, we have waited for him, we will rejoice and be glad in his salvation” (Isaiah 25:9).

– John Flavel –
from The Mystery of Providence, 1678