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  • But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.

  • Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

  • The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

  • Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.

  • O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.

  • And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?

  • For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.

  • Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

  • The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.

  • The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

  • This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

  • If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever.

  • For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

  • O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you.

  • You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.

  • Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

  • Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

  • How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended.

  • He [Jesus Christ] loves to see poor sinners coming to Him, He is pleased to see them lie at His feet pleading His promises; and if you thus come to Christ, He will not send you away without His Spirit; no, but will receive and bless you.

  • At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

  • No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.

  • Let us...once and forever put an end to that lie which says that Calvinism and an interest in evangelism are not comparable.

  • The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have dead men preaching to them. How can dead men beget living children?

  • To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.

  • Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.

  • If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed.In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

  • The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me.

  • God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst!

  • Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report would then be alike, and prove a furtherance to me in my Christian cause.

  • If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever."

  • Speak every time my dear brother as if it were your last

  • Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.'

  • It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.

  • Let my name die everywhere, let even my friends forget me, if by that means the cause of the blessed Jesus may be promoted

  • Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.

  • We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

  • Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

  • The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus came.

  • Lord help me to begin to begin.

  • When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert, and make him a monument of his free grace.

  • It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

  • I believe I never was more acceptable to my Master than when I was standing to teach those hearers in the open fields. I now preach to ten times more people than I would if I had been confined to the churches.

  • Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving.

  • The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.

  • What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

  • I would rather wear out than rust out.

  • If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed.... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

  • True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.

  • If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience.

  • I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.

  • As Christ was born of the Virgin's womb, so must He be spiritually formed in our hearts. As He died for sin, so must we die to sin. And as He rose again from the dead, so must we also rise to a divine life.

  • Believers keep up and maintain their walk with God by secret prayer. The spirit of grace is always accompanied with the spirit of supplication. It is the very breath of the new creature, the fan of the divine life, whereby the spark of holy fire, kindled in the soul by God, is not only kept in, but raised into a flame.

  • No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven.

  • When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.

  • It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world.

  • The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.

  • As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

  • A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.

  • All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.

  • All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

  • Although believers by nature are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.

  • As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm and unskilled guides.

  • Be content with no degree of sanctification. Be always crying out, "Lord, let me know more of myself and of thee."

  • Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

  • Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.

  • Come away, my dear brethren, fly, fly, fly for your lives to Jesus Christ; fly to a bleeding God, fly to a throne of grace; and beg of God to break your heart; beg of God to convince you of your actual sins; beg of God to convince you of your original sin; beg of God to convince you of your self-righteousness; beg of God to give you faith, and to enable you to close with Jesus Christ.

  • Come poor, lost, undone sinner, come just as you are to Christ.

  • Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

  • Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings

  • Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another.

  • For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

  • Give diligent heed to the things that are spoken from the Word of God.

  • God enabled me to speak with the demonstration of the Spirit, and with power.

  • God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.

  • God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave this Book of God, the grand charter of salvation, one fair reading through.

  • God is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls.

  • Had I a hundred hands, I could employ them all. The harvest is very great. I am ashamed I can do no more for him who has done so much for me.

  • I am never better than when I am on the full stretch for God.

  • I am tired in the Lord's work, but not tired of it.

  • I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word. This proved meat indeed and drink indeed to my soul. I daily received fresh life, light and power from above.

  • I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word...I would be so overpowered with a sense of God's Infinite Majestey, that I would be contrained to throw myself on the ground, and offer my soul as a blank in His hands, to write on it what He pleased.

  • I found by daily experience, the more I did, the more I might do for God.

  • I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.

  • I offer you salvation this day; the door of mercy is not yet shut, there does yet remain a sacrifice for sin, for all that will accept of the Lord Jesus Christ. He will embrace you in the arms of His love.

  • I say salvation is the free gift of God. It is God's free grace, I preach unto you, not of works, lest anyone should boast. Jesus Christ justifies the ungodly. Jesus Christ passed by and saw you polluted with your blood and bid you live.

  • I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

  • If an earthly king was to issue out a royal proclamation, on performing or not performing the conditions therein contained, the life or death of his subjects entirely depended, how solicitous would they be to hear what those conditions were? And shall not we pay the same respect to the King of kings and Lord of lords and lend an attentive ear to his ministers, when they are declaring, in his name, how our pardon, peace, and happiness may be secured?

  • If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!

  • If we are not inwardly wrought upon, and changed by the powerful operations of the Holy Spirit, and our moral actions proceed from a principle of a new nature, however we may call ourselves Christians, we shall be found naked at the great day.

  • If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

  • If you know Christ and him crucified, you know enough to make you happy, supposing you know nothing else. And without this, all your other knowledge cannot keep you from being everlastingly miserable.

  • Indeed, I have been listed under Jesus' banner only for a few years, but I have enjoyed more solid pleasure in one moment's communion with my God than I should or could have enjoyed in the ways of sin, though I had continued to have gone on in them for thousands of years.

  • It is easy to follow Christ when all things are safe. But your love to Jesus Christ would be seen more, if you must lose your lives, or deny your Jesus. It would be a trial of your love, when fire and faggot [a wooden stick] was before you, if you would rush into that, rather than fly from the truth as it is in Jesus. Though all things are calm now, the storm is gathering and by and by it will break; it is at present no bigger than a man's hand. But when it is full it will break and then you will see whether you are found Christians or not.

  • It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men.

  • Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, even persecutors, the worst of sinners: his righteousness is sufficient for them; his Spirit is able to purify and change their hearts.

  • John Wesley tells of a dream he had. In the dream, he was ushered to the gates of Hell. There he asked, "Are there any Presbyterians here?" "Yes!", came the answer. Then he asked, "Are there any Baptists? Any Episcopalians? Any Methodists?" The answer was Yes! each time. Much distressed, Wesley was then ushered to the gates of Heaven. There he asked the same question, and the answer was No! "No?" To this, Wesley asked, "Who then is inside?" The answer came back, "There are only Christians here."

  • Know, by sad experience, what it is to be lulled to sleep with a false peace. Long was I lulled asleep; long did I think myself a Christian, when I knew nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified

  • Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.

  • Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die.

  • Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.

  • Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.

  • My prayer today is that God would make me an extraordinary Christian.

  • Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

  • O turn to Him [Jesus Christ], turn in a sense of your own unworthiness, and be not faithless, but believing.

  • Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision.

  • Open your hearts as wide as ever you will, the Spirit of the Lord shall fill them.

  • Other men may preach the gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.

  • Our food and our rest, our trades and our labors, are to be attended to, and all the offices of humanity performed in obedience to the will of God, for the glory of Christ...

  • People want to recommend themselves to God by their sincerity; they think, 'If we do all we can, if we are but sincere, Jesus Christ will have mercy on us.' But pray what is there in our sincerity to recommend us to God? ... therefore, if you depend on your sincerity for your salvation, your sincerity will damn you.

  • See that you feel the truths that you speak.

  • Study to know Him more and more, for the more you know, the more you will love Him,

  • Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

  • The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.

  • The Christian world is in a deep sleep; nothing but a loud shout can awaken them out of it!

  • The Lord Jesus sits in heaven, ruling over all, and causing all things to work for his children's good.

  • The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.

  • The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.

  • The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.

  • There are many likewise, who go on in a round of duties, a model of performances, that think they shall go to heaven; but if you examine them, though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.

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