Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.

Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!

Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ . . . They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place.

A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.

There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted which Christ cannot remove.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.