On the one hand stand salvation by free grace for Christ's sake; but on the other stands renewal of the carnal heart by the Spirit. We must be changed as well as forgiven; we must be renewed as well as redeemed.

Where no visible fruit can be found, there you may be sure is no conversion.

A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.

Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.

Millions of people profess and call themselves Christians, whom the Apostle Paul would not have called Christians at all.

The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise up another. But they little think that they rule only by the will of Jesus, and that nothing happens without the permission of the Lamb of God.

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.