Theme: Truth
A man may know much of Christ, and yet not learn Christ: the devils knew Christ. A man may preach Christ, and yet not learn Christ, as Judas and the pseudo-apostles. A man may profess Christ, and yet not learn Christ.
Christian perfection, therefore, does not imply an exemption either from ignorance or mistake, or infirmities or temptations. Indeed, it is only another term for holiness.
He is too loving to say anything needlessly severe; too true to say anything untrue; nor can he have any motive to misrepresent us; for he loves to tell of the good, not of the evil, that may be found in any of the works of his hands.
Young man! the Bible is true. What have these infidels to give you in its place? What has made England but the open Bible?
Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
Truth by itself will do nothing but harden men in impenitence.
The true name is one which expresses the character, the nature, the being, the meaning of the person who bears it.
For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
The fairest babe that has entered life this year, and become the sunbeam of a family, is not, as its mother perhaps fondly calls it, a little ‘angel,’ or a little ‘innocent,’ but a little ‘sinner.’
Whatever is thrust into the worship of God that is not agreeable to divine revelation, cannot be done but by a human faith.
For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food. Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.
For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
It is because to large masses of people Christianity has become synonymous with a Temple service that other large masses of people decline to touch it. It is a mistake to suppose that the working classes of this country are opposed to Christianity. No man can ever be opposed to Christianity who knows what it really is.
God has not mocked us with a salvation which we cannot understand.
Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments.
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. And this is love, that we walk after his commandments.
If God says a thing it is true. We don’t ask you to believe in any man on the face of the earth, but we ask you to believe in Jesus Christ, who never lied--who never deceived any one.
This divine unction is the feature which separates and distinguishes true gospel preaching from all other methods of presenting the truth, and which creates a wide spiritual chasm between the preacher who has it and the one who has it not. It backs and impregnates revealed truth with all the energy of God. Unction is simply putting God in his own word and on his own preachers.
Christianity, you will observe, really works. And it succeeds not only because it is divine, but because it is so very human—because it is common-sense.
For there are three who testify:
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
If it be unlawful to follow Christ for loaves, how much more abominable is it to make of him and religion a stalking-horse to get and enjoy the world!
Facts, real or supposed, should be used to show the truth.
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