“Sanctifying faith is a grace of which the very life is action: it "worketh by love," and, like a main-spring, moves the whole inward man. (Gal. v. 6.)”
― Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots
― Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots
“I will never shrink from declaring my belief that there are no "spiritual gains without pains.”
― Holiness
― Holiness
“John Owen and John Calvin knew more theology than John Bunyan or Billy Bray, but who would deny that the latter pair knew their God every bit as well as the former?”
― Knowing God
― Knowing God
“What Abraham needed most of all was to learn the practice of living in God’s presence, seeing all life in relation to him, and looking to him, and him alone, as Commander, Defender and Rewarder.”
― Knowing God
― Knowing God
“There are many things which are not needful. Riches are not needful. Health is not needful. Fine clothes are not needful. Noble friends are not needful. The favour of the world is not needful. Gifts and learning are not needful. Millions have reached heaven without these things. Thousands are reaching heaven every year without them. But no one ever reached heaven without "repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.”
― Repentance
― Repentance
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