If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed.

They who seek Christ are already being sought of him.

Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect the leopard to regret the blood with which its fangs are moistened,—as soon might you expect the lion of the wood to abjure his cruel tyranny over the feeble beasts of the plain, as expect the sinner to make any confession, or offer any repentance that shall be accepted of God, unless grace shall first renew the heart.

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.

We are all damaged goods in recovery.