Quotations to Ponder
Shallow-Water Pilgrims.
"It has been said that men carry on a kind of "coasting-trade" with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess to be in search of heaven, but they take care not to venture so far in their approximations to it, as entirely to lose sight of the earth. And should their frail vessel be in danger of shipwreck, they will gladly throw their darling vices overboard, as other sailors their treasures, only to fish them up again when the storm is over."
Conviction.
"Conscience may convict men of ordinary sins, but never of the sin of unbelief. Of the enormity of this sin, no man was ever convinced but by the Holy Ghost himself."
Satan's Subtleness.
"Satan is so subtle that he will make a man proud that he is not proud."
Author and Finisher of our Faith.
"And then we may learn this supreme lesson above all: that it is of the very gravest importance to keep clearly before our (and others') minds and hearts the great fact that in Christ alone is there salvation. In Christ alone; and that in both senses of the word "alone." Not only can there be no salvation except in him, but in him is all that can be needed for salvation. Jesus only! Paul determined to know nothing in Corinth but Jesus Christ and him crucified. The only saving gospel is to find in him all. There needs no supplement to his work. His work admits to no supplement. To depend on aught else - aught else, however small it may seem - along with him is as truly to lose him as to depend on aught else instead of him. The solemn words of Paul, "Behold I Paul, say unto you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing," have their multiform application in these modern times. And it behoves us to live and to so preach today, that we can say now, as he said then, that our only trust and our only glory is in the cross of Jesus Christ; and that we find in him and in his work alone the beginning and the middle and the end of salvation. He is not only the author but also the finisher of our faith."
Spurgeon Summarises Spurgeon.
"If any of you want to know what I preach every day, and if any stranger should say 'Give me a summary of his doctrine,' say this: 'he preaches salvation all of grace, and damnation all of sin.'"
Orders are Orders.
An old backwoods preacher was being questioned by a Bishop concerning his "right" to preach the gospel. "Do you belong to the Standing Order?" asked the Bishop. "Not so far as I know," replied the old man, "But I belong to the Kneeling order!"