"My
friends, look to Christ, and not to yourselves."
"A
good example is far better than a good precept."
"God
condemns the world because they believe not on Him"
"Christ
was sent into the world to heal the broken hearted"
"Enthusiasm.
- We need more enthusiasm. The more we have the better."
"I
have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I've met."
"The
Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible."
"no
man who has ever been sent by God to do His work has ever failed."
"You
will find, my friends, that there is no class of people exempt from broken
hearts."
"The
longer I live the more I am convinced that godly men and women are not
appreciated in our day."
"If a man loses wealth, character, reputation, he may gain it again;
but oh, if he loses his soul, he can never regain it."
"A
man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most
of all, his family ought to know."
"Love
will rebuke evil, but will not rejoice in it. Love will be impatient of
sin, but patient with the sinner."
"If I know my own heart today, I would rather die than live as I
once did, a mere nominal Christian, and not used by God in building up
His kingdom."
"Christ
is the remedy of sin. What you want is to look from the wound to the remedy
- to Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith."
"Jesus
Christ came to save not good people, not the upright and just, but sinners
like you and me who have gone astray and sinned and come short of the
glory of God."
"I met a man who confessed his soul had fed on nothing for forty
years. "Well," said I, "that is pretty hard for the soul - giving it nothing
to feed on!" And that man is but a type of thousands and tens of thousands
today; their poor souls are starving."
"Perseverance.
- The men who have been successful are not those who work by fits and
starts, but three hundred and sixty-five days in the year."
"I believe the reason why so few find Christ is that they do not
search for Him with all their hearts; they are not terribly in earnest
about their souls' salvation."
"The
moment he got his eye off the Master he failed; and every man, I don't
care who he is--even the strongest--every man that hasn't Christ in him,
is a failure."
"There
would not be a drunkard walking the streets, if it were not for unbelief;
there would not be a harlot walking the streets, if it were not for unbelief;
there would not be a murderer, if it was not for unbelief, it is the germ
of all sin."
"I
have before remarked, a great many people are trying to make peace. But
that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all that
we have to do is to enter into it."
"Sometimes
I am amazed to see how little it takes to drive all peace and comfort
from some people. some slandering tongue will readily blast it. But if
we have the peace of God, the world can not take that from us."
"When
a man says, "I will," it may not mean much. We very often say "I will"
when we don't mean to fulfill what we say. But when we come to the "I
will" of Christ, He means to fulfill it. Everything He promised to do,
He is able and willing to accomplish. I cannot find any Scripture where
He says "I will" do this or "I will" do that but that it will be done"
"I am tired and sick of half-heartedness. I don't like a half-hearted
man. I don't care for anyone to love me halfheartedly. And the Lord won't
have it. If we are going to seek for Him and find Him, we must do it with
all our hearts."
"Do
you think there is a heart so bruised and broken that can't be healed
by Him? He can heal them all, but the great trouble is that men won't
come"
"Faith is an outward look. Faith does not look within; it looks without.
It is not what I think, nor what I feel, nor what I have done, but it
is what Jesus Christ is and has done, and so we should trust in Him who
is our strength, and whose strength will never fail."
"My friends, if you go to the Lord with your troubles, He will take
them away. Would you not rather be with the Lord and get rid of your troubles,
than be with your troubles and without God? Let trouble come if it will
drive us nearer to God."
"The
man that is popular with the world is not a friend of Jesus. You cannot
serve two masters. The world hates Christ, and if you are a friend of
the world you cannot be a friend of His. You may be sure that something
is wrong with you when everybody is your friend."
"Now,
there are three kinds of joy; there is the joy of one's own salvation.
I thought, when I first tasted that, it was the most delicious joy I had
ever known, and that I could never get beyond it. But I found, afterward,
there was something more joyful that, namely, the joy of the salvation
of others."
"If I know my own heart today, I would rather die than live as I
once did, a mere nominal Christian, and not used by God in building up
His kingdom. It seems a poor empty life to live for the sake of self.
Let us seek to be useful. Let us seek to be vessels meet for the Master's
use, that God, the Holy Spirit, may shine fully through us."
"As
men grow in knowledge, they vie with each other more and more to make
their homes attractive, but the brightest home on earth is but an empty
barn, compared with the mansions that are in the skies."
"It
has been said that there will be three things which will surprise us when
we get to heaven--one, to find many there that we did not expect to find
there; another, to find some not there whom we had expected; a third,
and perhaps the greatest wonder, will be to find ourselves there."
"No
matter how great the work, how mighty the undertaking; no matter how many
difficulties had to be encountered, when they were sent from God they
were sure to succeed."
"God
condemns the world because they believe not on Him; that is the root of
all evil. A man who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ won't murder, and
lie, and do all these awful things."
"If
there is anything that ought to make heaven near to Christians, it is
knowing that God and all their loved ones will be there. What is it that
makes home so attractive? Is it because we have a beautiful home? Is it
because we have beautiful lawns? Is it because we have beautiful trees
around that home? Is it because we have beautiful paintings upon the walls
inside? Is it because we have beautiful furniture. Is that all that makes
home so attractive and so beautiful? Nay, it is the loved ones in it;
it is the loved ones there."
What
has been, and is now, one of the strongest feelings in the human heart?
Is it not to find some better place, some lovelier spot, than we have
now? It is for this that men are seeking everywhere; and yet, they can
have it, if they will; but instead of looking down, they must look up
to find it."
"God
sent Moses down to Egypt to bring 3,000,000 people out of bondage. The
idea would have seemed absurd to most people. Fancy a man with an impediment
in his speech, without an army, without Generals, with no record, bringing
3,000,000 people from the power of a great nation like that of the Egyptians.
But God sent him, and what was the result? Pharaoh said they should not
go, and the great king and all his army were going to prevent them. But
did he succeed? God sent Moses and he didn't fail."
"You
ask me why God loves. You might as well ask me why the sun shines. It
can't help shining, and neither can He help loving, because He is love
Himself; and any one that says He is not love does not know anything about
love."
"Look
at the 6th verse of the 4th chapter of Philippians. "Be careful for nothing,
but in everything" - mark that - "by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving,
let your requests be made known unto God." He doesn't say He will answer
all, but He says, "And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding,
shall keep your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ."
"I met a man who confessed his soul had fed on nothing for forty
years. "Well," said I, "that is pretty hard for the soul - giving it nothing
to feed on!" And that man is but a type of thousands and tens of thousands
today; their poor souls are starving. This body that we inhabit for a
day, and then leave, we take good care of; we feed it three times a day,
and we clothe it, and take care of it, and deck it, and by and by it is
going into the grave to be eaten up by the worms; but the inner man, that
is live on and one, and on forever, is lean and starved."
"There
was a time when I used to visit the poor, that I thought all the broken
hearts were to be found among them, but within the last few years I have
found there are as many broken hearts among the learned as the unlearned,
the cultured as the uncultured, the rich as the poor."
"I just tell you this to show you how Abraham Lincoln's heart was
moved by compassion for the sorrow of that father and mother, and if he
showed so much, do you think the Son of God will not have compassion upon
you sinner, if you only take that crushed, bruised heart to Him?"
"Love
is the badge that Christ gave His disciples. Some put on one sort of badge
and some another. Some put on a strange kind of dress, that they may be
known as Christians, and some put on a crucifix, or something else, that
they may be known as Christians. But love is the only badge by which the
disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ are known."
"Dear sinners, Jesus is ready and willing to carry you over the mountains
of sin and over your mountains of unbelief. Give yourselves to Him; only
grant your consent. It lies with your own will, and if you accept His
offer, from the clouds of your transgressions you shall be lifted into
the Heaven of joy and peace that the world knows not of."
"Go
take your story to him, and he will comfort you, and bind up and heal
your sorrow. What a blessing it is to have such a Savior. He has been
sent to heal the broken hearted. May the text, if the sermon doesn't,
reach everyone here tonight, and may every crushed, broken, and bruised
heart be brought to that Savior, and they will hear His comforting words.
He will comfort you as a mother comforts her child if you will only come
in prayer and lay all your burdens before Him."
"Now
is a time of mercy. It may be I am talking to someone whose days of grace
may be few, to someone who may be snatched away very soon, who may never
hear another gospel sermon, who may be hearing the last call. My friend,
be wise! Make up your mind that you will seek the kingdom of God now.
"Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation."
"Christ
is inviting you to come: "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest." Oh, may we all find rest in Christ now!
Do not let anything divert your mind, but make up your mind this hour
that you will settle this great question of eternity."
"I
think there is a difference between happiness and joy. Happiness is caused
by things which happen around me, and circumstances will mar it, but joy
flows right on through trouble; joy flows on through the dark; joy flows
in the night as well as in the day; joy flows all through persecution
and opposition; if flows right along, for it is an unceasing fountain
bubbling up in the heart; a secret spring which the world can't see and
don't know anything about; but the Lord gives His people perpetual joy
when they walk in obedience to Him."
"I was talking to a gray-haired man in my native town not long ago
who, when I spoke to him about his soul, suggested that he would become
a Christian when the Lord Jesus Christ came to him. He was waiting till
Christ hunted him personally. And there is a class like him in every community.
Jesus Is Now Seeking Every Lost Person What more would you like Him to
do for you than what He has done already? What would you like God to do
more for us? He sent to us the prophets, and we murdered them. He sent
His Son from Heaven to be a sacrifice for us. He sent us the Holy Ghost,
who is in the world to give us peace and happiness. Would you like Him
to send His Son again to earth to suffer for your sins? My dear friends,
what more are you waiting for? He has been looking for you and hunting
for you from your cradle. I will tell you how He seeks."
"A
man that steals my pocket-book loses a good deal more than I do. I can
afford to let him have my pocket-book a great deal better than he can
afford to take it. See how much that man loses that steals my pocket-book.
Perhaps he may get a few dollars; or he may steal my coat; but he does
not get much. See how much he has lost. Take an inventory of what that
man loses if he loses heaven. Think of it. No thief shall inherit the
kingdom of God. To any thief I would say: steal no more. Let him ask God
to forgive him; let him repent of his sin and turn to God. If you get
eternal life it is worth more than the whole world. If you were to steal
the whole world, you wouldn't get much, after all. The whole world don't
amount to much, if you have not eternal life with it, to enjoy yourself
in the future."
Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Preach-the-Gospel.com
