God will not adapt Himself to unbelief; He adapts Himself to the heart.
Jews had to do with the seventh day of the week; Christians with the first -a mingling of time and eternity.
The flesh is always an inhabiter of the earth; for what else can it inhabit?
God was perfect love to me when I was perfect enmity to Him.
A man is never justified by experience; he is justified by faith.
The Spirit of God is never our righteousness; He is power in me; but Christ is my righteousness.
If the word of God has reached my soul, it shows not merely what is in the word, but what is in my soul.
Grace is love working where there is evil.
If any one had to be shut out of heaven because of my sins, it must be Christ, because He took them.
The experience of faith is never toward self-no faith is in my own feelings-I have faith in God.
Prophecy is never about heaven, but about earth.
Events about earth are never the fullness of Christ in heaven.
God never lowers His standard; "Do thy first works?"
Grace brought Christ where sin brought us.
Man is heartless about grace; bold about glory!
Paul never lets his mind loose in a sea of motives.
The moment religion accredits a man it is nothing: that which does not put the heart to the test costs him nothing.
Fresh truth will never lead a man to give up old truth.
Common topics of truth bring no rejection from the world; but fresh truth tries.
For the sinner, the conflict is between God and the conscience; with the believer, it is between God and the heart.
The place the saint has in the Father's house is with Christ and as Christ.
Because we are sons, God seals us. We shall never find thwarted affections in loving Christ.
The darkness of the world is religiousness: " this is your hour and the power of darkness." It was religiousness that crucified Christ. "If the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness!"
To doubt if God is for us, is unbelief.
We are fallen so low, that by some means or other man will lift himself up.
If you choose to take your place with the Lord, you must be content to be cast out by the world.
In heaven every one will have his place, and all be looking to God.
Selfishness itself can admire the unselfishness it profits by at the moment.
Would to God Christians were as honest when they have got peace, as they are while seeking it!
Man has turned God out of the world by crucifying Christ.
The law is not grace. Grace may say it is holy, just, and good.
When judgment comes grace is over forever. " Grace and truth carne by Jesus Christ." The law is neither grace nor truth. Truth is the real condition and relationship with God in everything, and with every one.
Who told the real state of man and of this world but Christ and the cross?
"The kingdom of heaven" is said because the King is in heaven. "The kingdom of God" could be said when Christ was on earth.
The law showed what man ought to be before God. The law deals with evil. In the law we find what man ought to be. The law is extracted out of the Old Testament. The law cannot mend what is broken under it.
Love finds its link wherever there is a misery-wherever there is a want.
Righteousness will reign when Christ reigns; "grace reigns through righteousness."
If I take law and judgment, there is only perdition for me; but if I take grace I am brought to God.
What I cannot escape, Christ would not escape.
We get death by disobedience, Christ by obedience.
God shows His love, not in giving us our old nature restored, but in giving us of His own nature.
Practice in scripture is always put after grace.
Paul brings out the counsels of God. John brings out the nature of God-eternal life manifested in Christ, and communicated to us.
In Paul we get the development of knowledge, in John the development of the affections.
The new nature is a dependent nature; it never could act of itself. The old man pretends to be independent.
Man gets the good thing, enjoys it, and leaves God out.
Mind cannot measure love. Mind can measure mind. Love is known by being loved.
No knowledge can love; we must be born of God to love; for " God is love."
Truth is authority.
If ministry be real, it brings the conscience to God; if false, it leads from God; it stands between God and the sinner.
The word of God never treats men's minds as competent to judge of it. The power that works men's minds is totally incapable of judging of God's word.
What I have faith in I am subject to. Christians are never put on their own minds to judge error.
Israel undertook, in terror too, what Christ undertook to do in love. All was living obedience and living love in Christ: the touching living expression of love in spite of sin.
Saul is a destroyer amongst the Jews; Paul a workman amongst the Gentiles.
When we lose the sense of God's presence, conscience sleeps, and will awakes.