If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.
It is not our comment on the Word that saves, but the Word itself.
The unconverted do not like to hear much about the Holy Spirit.
One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles of earthly streams.
Go on, dear brother; but an inch of time remains, and then eternal ages roll on for ever--but an inch on which we can stand and preach the way of salvation to a perishing world.
Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.