Though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.

Lord help me to begin to begin.

God is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls.

Why fear ye that the Lord Jesus Christ will not accept of you? Your sins will be no hindrance, your unworthiness no hindrance; if your own corrupt hearts do not keep you back, nothing will hinder Christ from receiving of you.

People want to recommend themselves to God by their sincerity; they think, 'If we do all we can, if we are but sincere, Jesus Christ will have mercy on us.' But pray what is there in our sincerity to recommend us to God? ... therefore, if you depend on your sincerity for your salvation, your sincerity will damn you.

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave this Book of God, the grand charter of salvation, one fair reading through.