Ephesians Contains Six Chapters and not Four - JC Ryle

I would say it with all reverence, but say it I must - I sometimes fear if Christ were on earth now, there are not a few who would think His preaching legal; and if Paul were writing his Epistles, there are those who would think he had better not write the latter part of most of them as he did.

 

But let us remember that the Lord Jesus did speak the Sermon on the Mount, and that the Epistle to the Ephesians, contains six chapters and not four. I grieve to feel obliged to speak in this way, but I am sure there is a cause.

 

Taken from the book Holiness by JC Ryle 1879

 

And So Turn - Charles Spurgeon

Have your heart right with Christ, and He will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples and earth into heaven.

 

Charles Spurgeon 1834-1892

The Fruits of Faith

Good works are the fruits of faith; and if faith be true, it always works by love.

 

 

Taken from the tract The One Thing Needful, from the book The Publications of the American Tract Society

Tracts are from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries

 

Sunshine to my Heart - Frederick Faber

How you can think so well of us,

And be the God you are,

Is darkness to my intellect,

But sunshine to my heart.

Frederick Faber 1874

 

It is no Place to Trifle - Ichabod Spencer

 Familiar expressions about the Deity are always utterly inappropriate and untasteful. Awe becomes us - solemn reverence before Him …Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, the ground whereon thou standest is holy ground (Ex 3:5). It is no place to trifle, by the burning bush!

 

Taken from the book Doctrinal Sermons by Ichabod Spencer 1798-1854

 

The Only Safe Directions for Inquiring Sinners - Ichabod Spencer

The directions of God's word are the only safe directions for inquiring sinners. The more accurately we see their hearts the more appropriately we may bring Scripture truths to bear upon them. In this perception of their state and this application of divine truth consists the skill of anyone who would guide them to Christ.

Taken from the book A Pastor's Sketches by Ichabod Spencer 1798-1854

 

The Lord Cannot Forget You - Robert Murray McCheyne

"Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Matthew 28:20

The Lord cannot forget you. If you stood before God in your own righteousness, then I see how you might be separated from His love and care. But you stand before Him in Christ, and Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. You will be held in everlasting remembrance. The world may forget you, your friends may forget you; this is a forgetting world. You may not have a tombstone over your grave, but God will not forget you.

Taken from the book The Best of Robert Murray McCheyne

Robert Murray McCheyne 1813-1843