Thoughts

"Christ’s great end," says Richard Baxter (1615-1691), "was to save men from their sins; but He delighted to save them from their sorrows."...

Are you bold in repelling the foe as your Master was? Are you ready with the retort to every foul suggestion, “Get thee hence, Satan”?...

The ironical taunt of proud and censorious Pharisees formed the glory of Him who came, “not to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance”...

What does it mean to live in dependence upon God? Let us learn from Christ our perfect example who was a man of prayer being let by the Spirit and living by every word that proceedeth out of God's mouth ...

What a common dictate of the fallen and regenerate heart to resent and recriminate! How alien to natural feeling ...

I love the fact that it was Martha, that ever-busy, God-chided woman who was privileged to speak one of the simplest, most direct and beautiful declarations of faith...

Jesus as the God-man had omnipotence slumbering in his arms. He had the hoarded treasures of eternity in his grasp ...

How does the holy Lord look on things? Have we any guidance as to what it is that distinguishes His sight from that of the children of men?

Let the image of the lowly Redeemer be ever in our mind’s eye. His example may well speak in silent impressiveness, bringing us down from our pedestal of pride...

It is an affecting thing to see a great man in tears! "Jesus wept!" It was ever His delight to tread in the footsteps of sorrow...