Henry Allen Ironside Quotes

No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity.

Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.

Time is given us to use in view of eternity.

It is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know.

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.

To tell a man who has no realization that he is lost, that he may be saved by faith in Christ, means nothing to him, however true and blessed the fact is in itself.

No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ.

Real worship is that of the heart.

Wherever there's light, there's bugs.

If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.

Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ.

God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God.

The Christian life is never static. One must either grow in grace, or there will be backsliding and deterioration.

Christianity is Christ!

If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much.

It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.

God-sent ministry, heeded and bowed to, leads to enlargement and blessing; but the Spirit's testimony rejected increases the guilt of him who hardens himself against it, and makes his condition far worse than before. It is ever the case that light refused makes the darkness all the deeper. Hence the need of a tender conscience, quick to respond to every word from God.

Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question, 'Adam, where art thou?' on to the incarnation, God has been speaking to man.

All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.

The Apostle Peter preaching on the day of Pentecost of the risen Savior, says, "God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ." And He speaks of Him as the anointed One, exalted at God's right hand. The Gospel is the Gospel of the Risen Christ. There would be no Gospel for sinners if Christ had not been raised. So the apostle says, "If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins"

We are not preaching the Gospel of a dead Christ, but of a living Christ who sits exalted at the Father's right hand, and is living to save all who put their trust in Him. That is why those of us who really know the Gospel never have any crucifixes around our churches or in our homes. The crucifix represents a dead Christ hanging languid on a cross of shame. But we are not pointing men to a dead Christ; we are preaching a living Christ. He lives exalted at God's right hand, and He "saves to the uttermost all who come to God by Him."

Grace is the very opposite of merit... Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.