Quote Collection
Full of joy – Thomas Watson
The sea is not so full of water—as the soul of a glorified saint is full of joy. There can be no sorrow in Heaven—as there can be no joy in Hell.
– Thomas Watson –
Affliction is good – Thomas Watson
Afflictions work for good, as they conform us to Christ. His life was a series of sufferings—”a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief” Isaiah 53:3. He wept, and bled! Was His head crowned with thorns—and do we think to be crowned with roses? It is good to be like Christ—though it be by sufferings!
– Thomas Watson –
Believing the whole Gospel – Augustine
If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
– Augustine –
The cost of being a true Christian – JC Ryle
It costs something to be a true Christian.
It will cost us …
our sins,
our self-righteousness,
our ease and
our worldliness!
– JC Ryle –
Love that leads the way – Amy Carmichael
Give me the love that leads the way
The faith that nothing can dismay
The hope no disappointments tire
The passion that will burn like fire
Let me not sink to be a clod
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God!”
– Amy Carmichael –
Gospel begins and ends with God – Tom Houston
The gospel begins and ends with what God is, not what we want or think we need.
– Tom Houston –
One God, One Gospel – James Denney
As there is only one God, so there can be only one gospel.
– James Denney –
The highest gift of God – John Wesley
Love is the highest gift of God; humble, gentle, patient love; that all visions, revelations, or manifestations whatever, are little things compared to love; and that all other gifts . . . are either the same with or infinitely inferior to love. Therefore, you should be thoroughly aware of this – the heaven of heavens is love. There is nothing higher in religion; there is, in effect, nothing else; if you look for anything but more love, you are looking wide of the mark, you are getting out of the royal way. And when you are asking others, “Have you received this or that blessing?” if you mean anything but more love, you mean wrong; you are leading them out of the way, and putting them on a false scent. Settle it then in your heart, that from the moment God has saved you from all sin, you are to aim at nothing more but more of that love describe in the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians. You can go no higher than this, till you are carried into Abraham’s bosom.
– John Wesley –
The whole gospel – John Calvin
The whole gospel is contained in Christ.
– John Calvin –