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“If we were once to have a church fully awakened and zealous for Christ and His Truth, we should soon have the persecuting times back
again.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2884
“‘There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.’ Our forefathers used to read this verse, ‘There is therefore now no
damnation.’ One of the martyrs, being brought before a Popish bishop, heard the bishop say to him, ‘Dying in your heresy, you will be damned.’
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‘That I never shall be,’ answered the good man, ‘for there is therefore now no damnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.’ He had sought the
very spirit of the text, for there is nothing that can condemn the man who is in Christ Jesus!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2974
“The mercies of God are uncountable—the ingratitude of man is unaccountable! We, Christian men and women, cannot tell how it is that we can
be so stolidly indifferent when we ought to be so devoutly thankful to God for all His goodness to us.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3022
“Any man who says that he has had more revealed to him, than is in the Holy Scriptures, incurs the curse of the last chapter of Revelation! He
must take care lest, since he adds to the words of the Lord Jesus Christ, ‘God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this Book.’ ‘It is
finished,’ must be said concerning this Book as we close it. Not a single verse or revelation shall henceforth come of the Spirit. Until Christ
comes, this Book is sealed, so far as any addition to it is concerned!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3062
“Joseph ruled Egypt for the good of Israel and, in like manner does Christ rule the whole world for the good of His people. All the arrangements
of Providence are under His control. Nothing is done in the entire universe without His command or His permission. Does that statement startle
you? It is, nevertheless, true!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2876
“In due season we shall die unless our Lord shall first return. The appointed hour for each of us is drawing near—what shall we do then? Why,
then, Beloved, trusting in Jesus, quietness and confidence will still be our strength! We shall not send our friends running to fetch a ‘priest’ to
perform some mysterious ceremony over us. Christ is all we need and as we have Him, we can die any day with perfect serenity!”—Volume 52,
Sermon #2985
“If our Gospel were hard, it would be easy, but because it is easy it is hard! It needs a strong hand to bring us down to this and I am praying while
I am preaching to you that the Lord Jesus Christ would now send forth the ever-blessed Spirit—His own Word of Power—to bring you to Himself.
Look and live!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2921
“‘Be you holy,’ for so shall you serve God and serve the Church of Christ and, in the highest sense, serve your generation and serve the world!”—
Volume 53, Sermon #3045
“Many come here, Sabbath after Sabbath, to hear the Gospel. The immense number and the constancy of it surprise me. I do not know why the
multitudes come and crowd these aisles. When I preached yesterday in Worcestershire and saw the thronging crowds in every road, I could not
help wondering to see them—and the more so because they listened as though I had some novel discovery to make—they listened with all their
ears, eyes and mouths! I could but marvel and thank God. Ah, but it is a dreadful thing to remember that so many people hear the Gospel and yet
perish under the sound of it! Alas, the Gospel becomes to them a savor of death unto death—and there is no lot so terrible as perishing under a
pulpit from which the Gospel is preached!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2999
“Oh, how you will glorify Christ if you have faith enough to take in this Divine mystery! Stagger not at electing love—it is one of the highest
notes of heavenly music! Be not afraid of such a verse as this—‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with loving kindness have I
drawn you.’ Here is marrow and fatness such as saints fed upon in days long since gone!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3062
“I wonder whether there are any here who once declared and probably believed that he was a Christian, but who has now given up even the name
of Christian? If so, my Friend, one of two things is true concerning you—either you never were converted at all, and so have been a mere professor,
or else, if you ever were truly converted, you will have to come back.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2975
“If you should experience a double trouble and if neither sun nor moon should give you cheer, yet you need not suspend, but may rather deepen
your fellowship with the Man of Sorrows!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3046
“I have heard many strange things in the course of my life, but I have never heard one of the Lord’s servants, when he came to die, regret that he
had taken Him for a Master. Nor have I ever heard one of them rail at Him because of even the heaviest blows of His hand, but, like Job, they have
said, ‘The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.’ Yes, as much blessed when He takes away as when He
gives!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2958
“We are very bad judges of our own spiritual experiences. We often undervalue who God esteems and set great store by that which God does not
prize. So it may be that Christ is really with you, dear Friend, although you are writing such bitter things against yourself and mourning His
absence.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2945
“The mischief is, dear Friends, that we often stop somewhere short of God when we are seeking salvation. A Romanist, for instance, erects a crucifix
and bows down before it. The original intention of the crucifix, no doubt, was to help the person who used it to remember the death of Christ…
But why do I talk about this to you Protestants? Why, because many of you do just the same in other respects! You say, ‘Now, if I am to be
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converted, I ought to read the Bible.’ Yes, that is quite right. Read the Bible, but, if you stop at the Bible, you will no more get to God than if
you stop at the crucifix!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2867
“Growing Christians think nothing of themselves, but full-grown Christians know themselves to be less than nothing.”—Volume 53, Sermon
#3063
“…I know, my God, that when I shall have received my last mercy on earth, I shall receive my first enjoyment in Heaven! When I shall have had
the last blessing of this mortal life, I shall have the first blessing of the life everlasting! When the goodness and the mercy that have followed me to
the brink of Jordan shall cease, I shall have angels there to escort me up to the celestial hills, and to admit me to my Savior’s Presence where there
are pleasures forevermore!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3022
“Brothers and Sisters, if we had more sense of our need, prayer would be more of an instinct with us—we would pray because we could not help
praying!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2879
“The difficulty which many feel is this—perhaps they are not elect—and if they are not, then, even though they come to Jesus, He must cast them
out. Now, that is supposing what never did occur, because no non-elect soul ever came to Jesus! But I need not go into that matter, for my text
suffices without any explanation. Read the first part of the verse—‘All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me’ [Joh_6:36].”—Volume 52,
Sermon #3000
“Many are the hills and dales between this Jericho and the city of the Great King! Let who will, be without trials, Christians will have their full
share of them! But there shall come no difficulty of any kind, between here and Paradise, which shall necessitate the soul’s going anywhere but to
her gracious Lord for guidance, for consolation, for strength, or for anything besides! Little know we of the walls to be leaped or the troops to be
overcome—but we know full well that we never need part from the Captain of our salvation, or call in other helpers.”—Volume 53, Sermon
#3046
“Whenever we want to have converts—and I hope that is always—the best thing for us to do is to ‘preach the Word.’ There is nothing better!
There can be nothing more—there must be nothing less!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2870
“Never judge men by the clothes they wear, but by what they are in themselves! It is a man’s heart and, above all, it is the Grace of God that
dwells within the man’s heart that you and I are to prize and love—may God help us to do so!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2936
“The one who really loves the Lord, when tempted to sin, cries with Joseph, ‘How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?’ Every act
of sin arises out of the absence or the decline of the love of God, but perfect love to God leads to the perfect life with God.”—Volume 51, Sermon
#2958
“Your Lord does not pray the Father to take you out of the world, but He does pray that he will keep you from the evil that is in the world. And
in accordance with His prayer, it ought to be the great aim of your life that you may so live as not to be dragged down to the low level of ungodly
men—yes, and not even down to the level of common Christianity—for the level of ordinary Christianity, at this day, far too closely resembles
that of the church in Laodicea which was so nauseous to the Lord.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3063
“Indeed, blindness would follow upon a vision of absolute Deity—if such a vision were even possible. To dwell long upon the Doctrine of the
Trinity, and to vex your mind with the various theories of that mysterious subject which men have imagined, is the sure road to Socinianism or
some other heresy! But, to see God veiled in human flesh and especially to see Him revealed in the Person of the dying Mediator, is to see God in
the only way in which He can to seen by mortal men. We do, not, therefore, for a moment forget that Christ’s death was the greatest possible
display of God’s love to men.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2986
“In the world you shall have tribulation, but in Christ you shall have peace! Value the Holy Spirit above all things. Realize your entire dependence
upon Him. Pray for fresh Grace. Venture not into the world without a fresh store of His hallowed influence. Live in the Divine Love. Seek
to be filled with that blessed Spirit and then, my Brothers and Sisters, even if the strong man armed shall lay hold of you, you will not flee
away—shame shall not overtake you, dismay shall not frighten your souls—and you shall stand in unblemished integrity to the end as the true
servants of Jesus Christ!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3023
“There are those in Heaven who have found as hard hand-to-hand fighting in the spiritual life as we do—yet they were not vanquished, nor need
we be—for the same strength which was given to them is also available for us!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3046
“This is how God saves men—by leading them to trust in Him in Jesus Christ.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2867
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“I sometimes pass persons who used to sit in these pews, and who were, I thought, ardent Christians. Even now some of them have respect for me,
but I fear that they have none for my Master. If I get anywhere near them, they slink away, for fear I should speak to them. I wish they had as
much anxiety about the grief they have caused my Lord as they have about any grief they may have caused me.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2975
“Man is unwilling to give up sin—he loves it too much—he is unwilling to be made holy for he has no time for spiritual things. God, then, must
come to man, for how can man, being naturally dead, and naturally unwilling, ever come to God?”—Volume 52, Sermon #3001
“O Sinner, the day may come when God will say of you, ‘Let him have his own way.’ If He should give you up, then your doom will be sealed
forever and your fate more desperate than words can describe! God help you and keep you from yourself, or else you will soon destroy yourself
and go posthaste to destruction!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2924
“Having the same God and the same promises, we may expect to always see the same results. As for the future, a large part of Scripture is as yet
unfulfilled. Many persons try to interpret it, but the man is not born who can explain the Revelation. Yet, whatever God has there declared will
be explained by the working out of His Providence.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3064
“This Psalm [the 23rd]is, among the other Psalms, what the lark is among the other birds—it soars and sings till it is lost in the heights to which
it ascends!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2886
“Trial is absolutely necessary in order to reveal to us some of the attributes of our gracious God! We cannot, ordinarily, see the stars in the daytime,
but if we go down a mine or a well, we can. And often in the deep mines or wells of trouble, as we go down, down, down, we see the brightness
of our Lord Jesus Christ as we never saw it before!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2945
“Crown Him, O you daughters of Jerusalem, as the King of Sufferers, most mighty to suffer and to save! With His garments all red from the
winepress, adore Him as having alone sustained the fury of His adversaries!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3024
“A beggar with the Truth of God is mightier than priests and princes with a lie.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3032
“In the very best of men, there is an infernal and well-near infinite depth of depravity! Some Christians never seem to find this out. I almost wish
that they might not do so, for it is a painful discovery for anyone to make—but it has the beneficial effect of making us cease from trusting in
ourselves and causing us to glory only in the Lord.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2986
“‘Where sin abounded, Grace did much more abound.’ There is no unconquerable sin! There is no Dagon that shall not be broken in the presence
of the Ark of God! There is no temple of the Philistines which shall not fall beneath the might of our greater Samson! We need not, as the result
of temperament, or because of any sin that does so easily beset us, depart from Jesus, for Grace is equal to all emergencies.”—Volume 53, Sermon
#3046
“No man knows how far God’s mercy goes, but if that mercy is given to faith, I cannot see how it can be extended to some dying men. Delirium, a
wandering mind, an aching head—oh, these will give you quite enough to do in dying without having to seek your peace with God!”—Volume
51, Sermon #2917
“Although we are to scatter the seed everywhere, upon the wayside as well as upon the good ground, God never does. Common calling is addressed
to every man, but effectual calling comes only to prepared men, to those whom God makes ‘willing in the day of His power.’”—Volume
52, Sermon #3001
“God will honor His Church when she has faith enough to believe in His promises.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3064
“If we give our life for others, we do not really give our life—we but pay the debt of Nature a little while before it is due. But it was altogether
different in the Lord Jesus Christ’s case… It was a purely voluntary act for Christ to die at all—not merely to die on the Cross but ever to die,
was a voluntary act on His part and, consequently, a most singular proof of His love to us.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2959
“I tell you that one backsliding Christian does more harm to the Church of God than one minister can ever undo! And the dear children who are
living near to God are often exposed to scorn through those of you that are settled upon your lees.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2926
“In our courts of law, we do not require men to answer questions which would incriminate them, but God does. And at the Last Great Day, the
ungodly will be condemned on their own confession of guilt!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2900
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“Brothers, if we want to have fruit in our ministry—if we want to see sinners converted—we must preach up Christ’s death! As the blacksmith
strikes the hot iron upon the anvil, we must keep the hammer of the Gospel at work upon this great foundation truth, ‘Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3024
“Christ said ‘finis’ to the canon of Revelation and it was closed forever! No one can add a single word to it and no one can take a word from it.
We Dissenters are sometimes charged with inventing a new Gospel. We deny it. We say that our Owen, Howe, Henry, Charnock, Bunyan, Baxter,
or Janeway and all that galaxy of stars of the pulpit did not pretend to say anything new—they only revived the things that Christ said—they
only professed to be confirmers of the Witness, Christ Jesus”—Volume 50, Sermon #2875
“Our mothers returned thanks on their own behalf and ours, but as we look back, we are bound to return thanks, too, for that kindly care of
God in our most extreme weakness—when the little candle of life was scarcely lighted and might have been so easily blown out. Then, as God
took care of us in our first infancy, do You not think that He will take care of us when we get into our second childhood? We are never likely to
be quite as weak as we were then, but, as the Lord guarded us at that time, will He not guard us in those dark days which are already looming
before some of us? Of course He will! Therefore, be of good courage, for He shall strengthen your heart and your praise shall be continually of
Him.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3022
“If we are really God’s people, it is a great consolation for us to know that—notwithstanding our many infirmities and iniquities, our many
anxieties and doubts and fears as to whether, after all, we have been self-deceived or devil-deceived—God will never forsake us!”—Volume 53,
Sermon #3047
“You will be wise, you young Christian professors, if you cultivate Christian companionship! Try to live with those who live with God and sit at
the feet of these who sit at the feet of Christ. God may speak through them to your soul, so give heed to what they say—it may be that in giving
heed to them, you will be listening to the voice of God Himself!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3063
“God save you from being able to delight yourselves in anything but your God! May He put so much bitterness into every other cup that you will
be compelled to take the cup of salvation and, calling upon the name of the Lord, to drink only of that! You will be dreadful and eternal losers,
whatever else you gain, if you lose the Lord!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2975
“Christians, you also are to love one another, not because of the gain which you get from one another, but rather because of the good you can do
to one another.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2936
“If I ever try to secure a quiet half-hour’s meditation upon His love to me, somebody is pretty sure to come and knock at the door. But if I can
keep the door-knocker still, and get alone with my Lord and only think about His love to me—not trying to elaborate any theories, or to understand
any doctrines, but just sitting down with the view of loving Him who gave Himself for me—I tell you, Sirs, that this thought is positively
inebriating to the soul!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2986
“When a soul sees itself, it then has the eyes with which to see Jesus. He that can see his own deformities, shall not be long before he sees the
Lord’s unspeakable perfections! In that day of self-humbling, cutting away and casting down, I know the Lord alone will be exalted in your
soul.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2922
“The coming of Christ into any soul, or into any church, is the death of sin and the birth of holiness!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3047
Antinomians, that is, those who are ‘against the Law,’ we are not to be numbered among them, for we can say with Paul, “The Law is holy and
the Commandments holy and just and good.” And though we are carnal, and often feel ourselves ‘sold under sin,’ yet we cannot find any fault
with the Law of God. If eternal life could have come by any law, it would have come by that Law—and even though that Law can now do nothing
for us but condemn us, yet, as we hear its terrible sentence, we feel that the Law ‘is holy, and just, and good.’”—Volume 52, Sermon #3002
“In persecuting times, the Christian has often had to literally give himself up to die, but, instead of the cause of Christ being injured by his death,
he has, in that way, brought forth the “much fruit.” There have been no other such fruitful preachers of the Gospel as those who suffered at the
stakes of Smithfield or died upon the rack. If you would be the means of saving others, you must make no reserve for yourself, but imitate your
Master, of whom His enemies tauntingly but truly said, ‘He saved others; Himself He cannot save.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3024
“Do not be afraid to argue for the Truth of God. Do not think that infidels are wise men, or that Arminians are so exceedingly learned. Stand up
for the Truth—and there is so much solid learning and real Truth to be found in the Doctrines that we uphold [Doctrines of Grace] that none of
you need be ashamed of them! They are mighty and must prevail! The mighty God of Jacob, by the demonstration of the Holy Spirit, make them
triumphant!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2908
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“O Son of God, how could You stoop so low as to take upon Yourself our nature and in that nature to bleed and die, when between us and You
there was a distance infinitely greater than that between an ant and a cherub, or a moth and an archangel? Yet with no claims upon You, of Your
own free will, You did yield Yourself to die because of Your amazing love to us!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2959
“God said He, alone, should be the Christian’s Master—and the rule of his conduct should be the will of the Lord as revealed in the teaching of
this blessed Book. Happy will Christians be, and strong in the Lord will they become, when they get as far as that!”—Volume 53, Sermon
#3063
“I pray you, as soon as you know Christ, speak out for Him and come out and show your colors. But I also beseech you never profess to follow
Christ merely through the persuasion of friends!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3023
“Light thoughts of sin breed light thoughts of the Savior.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3049
“Great success is one of the worst perils of mankind. Many a man has been elevated until his brain has grown dizzy and he has fallen to his destruction.
He who is to be made to stand securely on a high place has need to be put through sharp affliction. More men are destroyed by prosperity
and success then by affliction and apparent failure.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2945
“Do you not see that if the richer you get and the more often you go to the Cross, it will be safe for you to be trusted with wealth? Take care to
sanctify everything that God gives you by giving Him His proper portion and do not use your own portion till you have given Him His.”—
Volume 52, Sermon #2975
“You would be cut off from Christ, you would be more depraved than you were before your conversion, you would be more corrupt than you
were previous to your being regenerated—‘twice dead, plucked up by the roots’—if God the Holy Spirit were to withdraw from you! You must
live in His life, trust in His power to sustain you and seek of Him fresh supplies when the tide of your spiritual life is running low.”—Volume 53,
Sermon #3048
“The early Christian Church was very enthusiastic—they went everywhere preaching the Word. Somebody says, “Ah, they lived in the days of
persecution.” But it was not the persecution which made them enthusiastic—it was their enthusiasm that brought upon them persecution for
Christ’s sake!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2884
“You who have mighty founts of love welling up in your soul may come and let them flow most freely here, for here is One who is worthy of them
all! And when you have loved Christ as much as you can, you have not loved Him half as much as He deserves to be loved.”—Volume 52, Sermon
#3002
“The proud-hearted may, if they will, arraign their Maker. And the thing formed may say to Him who formed it, ‘Why have You made me thus?’
But these men of Grace will not do so. It is enough for them if God wills anything! If He wills it, so let it be—Solomon’s throne or Job’s dunghill—
they desire to be equally happy wherever the Lord may place them, or however He may deal with them!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3065
“Do you want to know where to find Christ? He is dwelling in His people and especially in His poor people, in His suffering people, in His tried
people! So, when your heart is full of love to your Lord, let some of the light of it shine upon them…The moon cannot shine as brightly as the
sun does, and you cannot love as much as Christ does—but you can be like the moon and shine with borrowed light—you can reflect upon others
the light of the love which Christ has shed upon your own soul.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2986
“I ask you, Brothers and Sisters in Christ, to resolve, by God’s strength, that there is nothing you will not do and nothing you will not give for
Him who loved you so well that He gave all He had to save you! Seek, by every means that you can use, to win souls for Christ! The man who must
have conversions or he will die, will have them! The woman who feels that she must bring her class to Christ and will never rest till she does, will
bring them to Christ! The Lord help us so to preach Christ and so to live for Christ and, if necessary, so to die for Christ, that we may bring forth
fruit unto God—‘some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3024
“What can the ministers of the Gospel do if their people cease to pray for them? Even if their own prayers are heard, as they will be, and a measure
of blessing be given, yet it will be but a scant measure compared with what it would be if all the saints united in their intercessions!”—
Volume 51, Sermon #2929
“Alas! Alas! If we had to deal with sane men, our preaching would be easy—but sin is a madness—such a madness that when men are bitten by it,
they cannot be persuaded even though one should rise from the dead. ‘Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.’”—Volume 50, Sermon
#2902
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“The meek in spirit are like a photographer’s sensitive plates—as the Word of God passes before them, they desire to have its image imprinted
upon their hearts. Their hearts are the fleshy tablets on which the mind of God is recorded. God is the Writer and they become living Epistles,
written not with ink, but with the finger of the living God.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3065
“The Holy Spirit is the chariot wheel of prayer. Prayer may be the chariot, the desire may draw it forth, but the Spirit is the very wheel whereby
it moves. He propels the desire and causes the chariot to roll swiftly on and to bear to Heaven the supplication of the saints when the desire of the
heart is ‘according to the will of God.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3048
“In many churches there are so few making profession of religion that there is not much danger of this evil—but here, where we receive so many
every week, there is need for wise discrimination! I do beseech you never to sit down with a religion that comes to you merely through your being
talked to by your acquaintances.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3023
“There are some who read the Bible and try to systematize it according to rigid logical creeds, but I dare not follow their method and I feel content
to let people say, ‘How inconsistent he is with himself!’ The only thing that would grieve me would be inconsistency with the Word of God!
As far as I know this Book, I have endeavored, in my ministry, to preach to you not a part of the Truth of God, but the whole counsel of God—
but I cannot harmonize it, nor am I anxious to do so. I am sure all Truth is harmonious and to my ear the harmony is clear enough—but I cannot
give you a complete score of the music, or mark the harmonies on the gamut—I must leave the Chief Musician to do that.”—Volume 52, Sermon
#2976
“Do not expect, Beloved, to hear voices, to see visions and to dream dreams, but rather look at Providence—see how God’s wonder-working
wheels turn round and, as the wheels turn, so do you! Whichever way His hand points, go there and thus God shall guide you, for your Counselor
has not yet perished!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3066
“Its [the Bible] every page is a sheet of gold! No, rather let me say that Heaven’s banknotes are here, to be cashed by them who have faith enough
to bring them to the God that issued them, that He may make their souls rich to all the intents of bliss!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3002
“Practical godliness is absolutely necessary to a true Christian character—and a man is not righteous unless he does that which is righteous.”—
Volume 51, Sermon #2959
“Never did water leap from the crystal fountain with half such freeness and generous liberality as Grace flows from the heart of God! He gives
forth love, joy, peace and pardon—and He gives them as a king gives to a king! You cannot empty His treasury, for it is inexhaustible. He is not
enriched by withholding, nor is He impoverished by bestowing!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2867
“A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3023
“It is a great help in prayer, when you are yourself unable to pray, to get someone whom you know to be a Christian, and who has sympathy with
you, to come and pray with you.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3024
“It is an easy thing to shut the mouths of ordinary lions, but it is a great deal more difficult to shut the mouth of the roaring lion of Hell who
goes about seeking whom he may devour. It is a very simple matter for the Omnipotent God to make a world—He speaks and it is done! But to
remake an innumerable company of His creatures who have become debased and spiritually dead—this is, indeed, a work only comparable to
that which He accomplished when He “brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the
Everlasting Covenant.””—Volume 50, Sermon #2880
“If ever you are asked which comes first, repentance or faith, you may answer, by another question, ‘Which spoke of a wheel moves first when the
wheel begins to revolve?’ You know that they are all set in motion at the same time. So, when the hand of God sets our soul ‘going’ in the right
road, it also sets our soul and often our eyes ‘weeping.’ And I believe that when our soul is really ‘going’ towards God, it is with a deepened repentance
over the past and a sincere ‘weeping’ over the imperfections which it still has to lament.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3049
“We must endeavor, as much as possible, to exercise our thoughts upon all the subjects which God has given us to think upon in His Word and
has applied to our hearts by the workings of the Holy Spirit. Where this is done, we shall avoid one thought thrusting another, and each will go
in its own path (Joe_2:8).”—Volume 52, Sermon #2976
“Oh, what wondrous love was that which impelled the Savior onward to Gethsemane—the olive press where He was to be pressed and crushed
between the millstones of Jehovah’s wrath in order that He might suffer the penalty due to our transgressions!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3003
“Personal preaching is the best kind of preaching. We are not going to avoid personalities! We are striving to reach individual cases as much as
possible, that every man may hear the Word of God in his own tongue—and hear it speaking to his own heart.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3066
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“If it were required, as once it was, that you should be dragged into the amphitheatre to be slain by wild beasts, you must be willing to do as the
Christians did then—to die such a death, if necessary, for Christ. My Lord and Master will not be content with the shell of a man—He must have
his heart and soul, his entire being—and he who will not thus give himself up to Christ cannot be His disciple.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2946
“Nothing tends so greatly to oil the wheels of life as a little loving sympathy—let us always be ready with a good supply of it wherever it is
needed.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2936
“If a man could eat gold, drink gold, sleep with gold, walk with gold and be robed in gold, yet, still, what is there in that metal which could
satisfy the cravings of the highest part of man’s nature—that mysterious spiritual thing which is called the soul? No, there is no solid satisfaction
for the soul in all the wealth in the world!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2987
“My Master knows that I would cheerfully resign, that another voice might speak to you, if that would keep alive your zeal and enthusiasm. If it
is, however, not my fault, even a changed ministry would not suffice. When churches grow to a great size, people think they must always continue
so, and that God will always bless them as He has done. Why, Sirs, as our first blessings came in answer to prayers—all future blessings must
come in the same way!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3013
“But there is such a thing as being angry and yet not sinning—and the meek man turns his anger wholly upon the evil and away from the person
who did the wrong—and is as ready to do him a kindness as if he had never transgressed at all!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3065
“A sight of Your Cross, O Jesus, makes the priests topple down like Dagon before the ark—and the sacraments that once were trusted in to be
despised if placed side by side with You!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2922
“What you learn from man, you can unlearn—but what you learn of the Spirit is fixed indelibly in your heart and conscience—and not even
Satan himself can steal it from you. Go, you ignorant ones, who often stagger at the Truths of Revelation—go and ask the Spirit, for He is the
Guide of benighted souls!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3048
“Gratitude is a very rare thing. If any of you try to do good for the sake of getting gratitude, you will find it one of the most profitless trades in
the world. If you can do good, expecting to be abused for it, you will get your reward, but if you do good with an expectation of gratitude in
return, you will be bitterly disappointed.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2960
“The best service you can render to Christ is to imitate Him. If you want to do what will please Him—do as He did!”—Volume 53, Sermon
#3024
“No matter how far off a man may be from God, if there is a hearty and earnest seeking after Him through Jesus Christ, he will find Him.”—
Volume 51, Sermon #2925
“Though it is evident enough that the early Christians were an uneducated company of men, yet those that were great and noble, learned and
polished, did not disdain to join with them, nor will they ever in any age if the Light of Heaven shines and the love of God burns in their
hearts!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2914
“Now, Christian…Do you wonder if your integrity is questioned and your most manifest virtue is misrepresented? And if the Grace which really
is within you is laughed at and despised? How could the world know you when the Savior, Himself, was not discovered? As the bright gleams of
His Divine Glory were almost wholly concealed, surely the weaker gleams of your earthly and human glory must be altogether hidden! That,
perhaps, is the first reason why ‘it does not yet appear what we shall be.’” [1Jn_3:2]—Volume 52, Sermon #3004
“Some people seem to have a notion that although sin is a very evil thing, yet if repentance is sincere and deep, it will suffice to wash out the sin.
But Paul [Rom_8:34] does not say, ‘Who is he who condemns?—for I have felt the plague of sin and hated it, and wept over it and turned from it.
He makes no mention whatever of his repentance as a ground of his confidence! He had truly repented, yet he never dreamed of relying upon his
repentance as a reason for his justification in the sight of God!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3067
“While we sometimes find the purse-proud man looking down on the poor, it quite as often happens that the poor man takes umbrage where
there is no need for it and is much more wicked in his jealousies than the other in his purse-pride. Let it never be so among Christians, but lest the
Brother of high degree rejoice that he is exalted and the poor that he is brought low!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2976
“If I hear blasphemy and am able to condemn it, yet do not, my silence makes me a sharer in the sin. I am always afraid lest, when I hear God’s
name blasphemed, my guilty silence should make me an accomplice of the blasphemer. A rebuke need not be and should not be discourteous or
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disrespectful. And it should not be unduly severe, but I am afraid that nowadays we are not so likely to err by our harshness, as by failing to be
faithful to our conscience and our God.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3045
“According to our Lord’s testimony, [Luk_7:22-23] the preaching of the Gospel to the poor is as great a proof of His Messiahship as the raising
of the dead! Then how highly it ought to be prized by them and how glad should they be who have the Gospel now preached freely in their hearing!”—
Volume 50, Sermon #2876
“When a man plays the fool, let him do it for something that is worth having.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2987
“The meek-spirited man may be naturally very hot and fiery, but he has had Grace given to him to keep his temper in subjection. He does not say,
“That is my constitution and I cannot help it,” as so many do. God will never excuse us because of our constitution—His Grace is given to us to
cure our evil constitutions and to kill our corruptions! We are not to spare any Amalekites because they are called constitutional sins, but we are
to bring them all out—even Agog who goes delicately—and slay them before the Lord who can make us more than conquerors over every sin,
whether constitutional or otherwise!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3065
“In a spiritual sense, so far as anything in the nature of good works is concerned, sin has paralyzed man altogether. Indeed, it has taken his very
life away from him so that he is truly said to be ‘dead in trespasses and sins.’”—Volume 50, Sermon #2887
“All the water in the sea will not hurt your vessel as long as you keep it outside—the danger begins when it gets inside the ship. So it matters
little what is outside you, if all is right within. Have that little bird in your bosom that sings sweetly of the love of God! Wear the flower called
heart’s-ease in your buttonhole and you may go merrily through a perfect wilderness of trouble and a desert of care!”—Volume 50, Sermon
#2871
“Good old Rowland Hill, when he found himself getting very feeble, said, ‘I hope they have not forgotten poor old Rowley up there.’ But he
knew that he was not forgotten, nor will you be, Beloved.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2900
“No food is so palatable as that which has hunger for its sauce! To know what it is to be poor will make us more grateful if God ever gives us
abundance.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3025
“Self-satisfaction is the end of progress, so we are constantly to cry, “Higher, and yet still higher! Onward and upward”—and still to ask to be
filled yet more completely with all the fullness of God!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2961
“Be charitable, notwithstanding all the mischief that unworthy applicants may make of your charity, remembering the command of our Savior to
His disciples, ‘Give to him that asks you.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3045
“There will come to every man, whoever or whatever he may be, sudden assaults of temptation—but if the Law of his God is in his heart, he will
be forewarned and forearmed against them! There will also come the long sieges of temptation and many a man has fallen by little and little. But
if the Law of his God is in his heart, he will be safe against even them.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3002
“Very likely if we prayed more for ministers, they would be more blessed to us. There is many a man who cannot ‘hear’ his minister and the reason
may be that God never hears him pray for his minister.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2929
“It is an ill sign when anyone refuses to forgive another. I have heard of a father saying that his child should never darken his door again. Does
that father know that he can never enter Heaven while he cherishes such a spirit as that?”—Volume 53, Sermon #3065
“As the planet needs the sun, so man needs his God. As the eye is nothing without light, so your spirit is nothing without God. You must have
God!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2987
“Self-righteousness is a great cheat. The man who gets most comfort out of it simply gets that comfort because he is ignorant! If he knew himself
and knew God’s Law, and knew the demands of inflexible Justice, he would fling upon the nearest dunghill that self-righteousness of his which
looks like fair white linen, but which really is, in God’s sight, nothing but filthy rags!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2977
“We all know what our own cross is. And if our Heavenly Father has appointed it for us, we must take it up and follow Christ!”—Volume 51,
Sermon #2946
“Oh, privileged beyond compare is that man who has a partner in life who, with himself, rejoices in Christ and who sees all his children following
in his steps, equally rejoicing in the Lord Jesus Christ! And happier still is he if all his servants are in the same blessed condition. How is it with
you, Brothers and Sisters? Have you this blessing? I know that some of you have. Your house ought to be a little Heaven, for you have a church in
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your house! Keep the bells always ringing, ‘Holiness unto the Lord,’ and let your hearts be so many harps from which there shall constantly pour
forth floods of music to the praise of Him who has so highly favored you!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2937
“You who know not where you will have a lodging tonight, if you can truly say, ‘my Redeemer,’ you need not envy the very angels of God, for in
this respect, you are ahead even of them, for they can call Him, ‘Lord,’ but not ‘Redeemer’!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2909
“I am afraid we would have to present a very poor record if we gave a true account of the time we spend in prayer—yet we have no excuse to offer
for being lax in this holy duty. It is not a bondage, a slavery—it is the highest privilege of the Believer’s soul to be engaged in prayer to our Heavenly
Father—yet we often prefer the disastrous ease of wasting our time instead of drawing near to God in prayer!”—Volume 52, Sermon
#3003
“O my Brothers in the ministry, if we are not a blessing, we are a double curse! Every so-called “place of worship” in which the true Gospel is not
preached is a curse, for it is like a sepulcher full of rottenness doing nothing but harm! Worldlings more often judge Christianity by fruitless trees
than by fruit-bearing trees. O preacher, be a blessing, or never enter the pulpit again!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3045
“We have been born into a world where there is much sin and much sorrow, where no man can have all that he wishes—and it is a grand thing
when our wishes get changed, our desires get altered and we become altogether different from what we used to be! This is the path that leads to
satisfaction!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2987
“We are, all of us, remarkably good-tempered while we have our own way. But the true meekness which is a work of Grace will stand the fire of
persecution and will endure the test of enmity, cruelty and wrong—even as the meekness of Christ did upon the Cross of Calvary.”—Volume 53,
Sermon #3065
“That man is truly happy who can say of all his substances, be it little or be it much, ‘The Lord gave it to me.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3025
“I would like, Brothers and Sisters in Christ, that you and I would so live that our very lives would preach for Jesus Christ—that people would
only have to listen to our ordinary conversation, or to see the cheerfulness of our countenance, or to perceive the hopefulness of our spirit under
trouble, our justness and integrity, our readiness to forgive, our zeal for God! It is good to preach with your tongue if God has called you to do
so. But never forget that the best preaching in the world is done by other members of the body. So, preach with your feet—by your walk and
conversation! Let your whole being be a living, powerful, irresistible illustration of the power of Jesus Christ to bless and save!”—Volume 50,
Sermon #2891
“Thousands of hearers of the Gospel are constantly saying, ‘We will believe in Jesus when we feel our sins more—when we feel more repentance—
when we have done this and told that, and experienced the other.’ Ah, Sirs, this plan of bringing Christ in at the end of the work—after
you have accomplished the first part of it yourselves—is a most foolish mistake, and a fatal one, too!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2977
“O Sirs, if you remain what you are by nature, you may strive to do what you please, but when you have dressed out the child of nature in its
finest garments, it is still only the child of nature finely dressed, but not the child of God You must be, by a supernatural birth, allied to the living
God, for, if not, all the works that you may perform will not entitle you to the possession of the inheritance of the Most High.”—Volume 51,
Sermon #2961
“Brother, if ever the Lord should rebuff you and seem to refuse that which you desire to offer to Him, do not sulk—do not get into a bad spirit,
as some have done in similar circumstances—but know that the very essence of Christian service is to be willing not to serve in that particular
way if, by not serving, God would be the more glorified!1904, Sermon #2869
“It is only as you yourselves are, in the fullest sense, saved—saved from falling into sin, saved from inward corruption, saved from error—it is
only as you are conformed to the image of Christ that you can expect to be a blessing to others.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3045
“It has been my lot to stand by many death beds and I can honestly say that if I wanted to enjoy the most intense pleasure that is possible on earth,
I would seek out some dying saint that I might witness his rapturous joy and hear his gladsome and cheering testimony to his Lord and Savior!”—
Volume 52, Sermon #2987
“The meek-spirited man is glad to know that other people are happy—and their happiness is his happiness! He will have a great number of heavens,
for everybody else’s Heaven will be a Heaven to him! It will be a Heaven to him to know that so many other people are in Heaven, and for
each one whom he sees there, he will praise the Lord. Meekness gives us the enjoyment of what is other people’s, yet they have none the less because
of our enjoyment of it!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3065
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“When a church feels it must get a blessing—I hope we are feeling it now—in proportion as that desire grows into an agony, the Lord alone will
be exalted in that day!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2922
“I do not think that we shall long plead for our sons and daughters without seeing a prayer-hearing God stretching out His hand to save them.
Or if we do, we must look upon the delay as a further trial of our faith and we must intensify our prayer until it becomes an agony—and in that
agony we lay hold upon the Covenant Angel and cry, ‘I will not let You go unless You bless me and my seed also.’”—Volume 51, Sermon #2937
“You cannot direct your own steps for you are a cripple and cannot take even one step except as strength is given you from on high! You are like
a ship upon the sea—you can make no progress except as the breath of the Divine Spirit fills the sails of your boat. How can you direct your own
way when you have no power to go in it and are dependent upon God for everything?”—Volume 50, Sermon #2893
“My young Brother, you are about to become the pastor of a large church and you tremble lest you should make some great mistake and bring
dishonor upon God. But if His Law is in your heart, none of your steps shall slide. You need not mind about the slipperiness of the way if the Law
of your God is in your heart! Many slip when the road is not slippery, and many a man, by God’s Grace, stands fast where it seems a miracle that
he stands at all.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3002
“When a man says to us, ‘I am a child of God,’ we have the right to expect that there shall be at least some trace of the Character of God visible in
his walk and conversation. Come, dear Friend, with all your imperfections, are you seeking to be an imitator of God, as one of His dear children?...
Do you feel that because you are a child of God, it becomes you to walk even as His first-born Son walked while He was here below? Remember
that without holiness no man shall see the Lord, because without holiness no man has the evidence that he is, indeed, a child of God!”—
Volume 51, Sermon #2961
“Do not, therefore, fear persecution, but rather thank God for it, and say, ‘I have to endure this that I may be a blessing to those who revile and
abuse me.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3045
“Plowing does not harden rocks—but preaching does harden sinners if the Gospel does not reach their hearts and, of all hardhearted men, the
hardest are those who have been hardened in the fire of the Gospel.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2977
“I know that some of you seekers after salvation fancy that those good Christian people whom you very much admire must get a great deal of
comfort out of the good lives that they lead. But I can assure you that this is not the case with any of them. They will all tell you that they have
not the least confidence in themselves, or in their own works, but that their confidence is found in quite another direction!”—Volume 53, Sermon
#3067
“I do not think that all the cherubim and seraphim in Heaven ever praised God as they have done who have died in prison for Jesus’ sake, or at
the stake have poured forth their blood rather than deny Him. Be glad that you may prove your love by suffering for Christ. The ruby crown of
martyrdom is not within your reach today, but be thankful if some jewels of suffering may be yours. And count it all joy when you can endure this
cross for the name of Jesus Christ.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2946
“Oh, the delight of pleading with God when the heart casts forth mighty jets of supplication like a geyser in full action! How mighty is supplication
when the whole soul becomes one living, hungering, expecting desire!1904, Sermon #2869
“When we come to God and are saved by Him, then ordinances take their proper place. You cannot teach a man how to live until he is born and
you cannot teach him what his spiritual life is to be until he is born-again. all religious rites and ceremonies which precede the new birth go for
nothing. First there must be the inward life—the broken heart, the contrite spirit—and then everything else drops into proper order.”—
Volume 50, Sermon #2903
“If you want to find a heart that is as hard as steel, you must look for one that has passed through the furnace of Divine Love and has been made
aware of the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, but has rejected the Truths of God that has been made known to it.”—Volume 52, Sermon
#2977
“As Christ thus made known the will of God the Father to His people, so the Holy Spirit makes known to us the words of Christ. I could almost
affirm that Christ’s words would be of no use to us unless they were applied to us by the Holy Spirit! Beloved, we need the application to assure
our hearts that they are our own, that they are intended for us and that we have an interest in their blessedness!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3048
“Every moment that Christ is at the right hand of God, every Believer is safe. For Christ to be in Heaven and for the people for whom He died to
be in Hell is utterly impossible! For Christ to be there as our Representative and yet for those whom He represents to be cast. out from the favor
of God would be a monstrosity, a blasphemy which cannot be imagined for a single instant!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3067
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“A certain amount of sleep is necessary for the body; but prayer is just as necessary for the soul. The bed will give rest to the tired limbs, but the
Mercy Seat will give refreshment to the powers and passions of the spirit. Let us get strength for service, power for endurance and might for conflict
by going to the Mount of Olives with the Savior and watching and praying with Him.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3003
“Iniquity is indeed great when it is committed against experience! Men deliberately run upon the pikes of damnation—they destroy their own
souls by a sort of spiritual suicide!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2988
“You believe the Gospel is true, but you doubt whether it is for you. Well, no, it is not for you if you are not a sinner. If you can say, “I am not
guilty,” then farewell to all hope, for Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners! If you are a sinner, surely He came to save such as you
are!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2925
“Time has to do with time, but time has not to do with eternity, so, whether you, my Brother, were born to God 50 years ago and I, 25 years
ago—and our young friend over there 25 days ago—it makes no difference. ‘If children, then heirs,’ because the date of birth cannot come into
our reckoning when we have to do with eternal things.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2961
“If those who hate righteousness, hated Christians more heartily than they now do, it might be a token that God was more manifestly at work in
us, making us more “out-and-out” for Him than we are at present.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2884
“After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith’s twin brother and is born at the same time.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2882
“When a man is poor, unless he has brought his poverty upon himself by extravagance, or idleness, or his own wrongdoing, the man is a man for
all that, and none the worse man for being poor! Indeed, some of the best of men have been as poor as their Lord was.”—Volume 53, Sermon
#3025
“When I talk of the glories of the love of Christ, I feel at home. When I speak of the matchless Grace of the Everlasting Covenant, my heart is well
at ease. But to prove man’s sin heavy is a task too hard for me! Not that it is hard in itself. The evidence is clear, but to procure a conviction is the
difficulty. The jury is not impartial. Your conscience is like an unjust judge. Oh, how hard it is to make any man believe himself to be so bad as
the Word of God says he is!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2988
“Though all sinners are fools, yet there are fools of all sorts. Some are learned fools. Unconverted men, whatever they know, are only educated
fools. Between the ignorant man who cannot read a letter and the learned man who is apt in all knowledge, there is small difference if they are
both ignorant of Christ!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3070
“It was said of Harry the Eighth that if all the histories of all the tyrants who ever lived had been lost, you might have composed them all with the
material from the life of that execrable monster! And I will venture to say that if all the biographies of all t