Arthur W. Pink
The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.Collection: Christian
Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but in the blesser Himself.Collection: Running
The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.Collection: Book
True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.Collection: Liberty
Contentment, then, is the product of a heart resting in God. It is the soul’s enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding. It is the outcome of my will being brought into subjection to the Divine will. It is the blessed assurance that God does all things well, and is, even now, making all things work together for my ultimate good.Collection: Blessed
The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonouring and degrading conception. The popular belief reduces God to a servant, our servant: doing our bidding, performing our pleasure, granting our desires. No, prayer is a coming to God, telling Him my need, committing my way unto the Lord, and leaving Him to deal with it as seemeth Him best.Collection: Prayer
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.Collection: Prayer
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.Collection: Children
Growing in grace is a deepening realization of our nothingness; it is a heartfelt recognition that we are not worthy of the least of God's mercies.Collection: Grace
The great mistake made by most of the Lord’s people is in hoping to discover in themselves that which is to be found in Christ alone.Collection: Mistake
The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.Collection: Prayer
Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is for Him to fill our hearts with His thoughts, and then His desires will become our desires flowing back to Him.Collection: Prayer
How does God save His people from the pleasure of sin? The answer is, “By imparting to them a nature which hates evil and loves holiness.” This takes place when they are born again, so that actual salvation begins with regeneration. Of course it does; where else could it commence? Fallen man can neither perceive his desperate need of salvation, nor come to Christ for it, till he has been renewed by the Holy Spirit.Collection: Hate
Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.Collection: Faith
Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.Collection: Grace
Nothing in all the vast universe can come to pass otherwise than God has eternally purposed. Here is a foundation of faith. Here is a resting place for the intellect. Here is an anchor for the soul, both sure and steadfast. It is not blind fate, unbridled evil, man or Devil, but the Lord Almighty who is ruling the world, ruling it according to His own good pleasure and for His own eternal glory.Collection: Fate
Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God's majestyCollection: Views
Whatever I cannot do for God's glory must be avoided.Collection: Glory
Taking up my cross means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.Collection: Mean
An honest heart seeks to please God in all things and offend Him in none.Collection: Heart
The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness.Collection: Justice
Faith endures as seeing Him who is invisible (Heb. 11:27); endures the disappointments, the hardships, and the heart-aches of life, by recognizing that all comes from the hand of Him who is too wise to err and too loving to be unkind.Collection: Faith
In praying for His enemies not only did Christ set before us a perfect example of how we should treat those who wrong us an hate us, but He also taught us never to regard any as beyond the reach of prayer.Collection: Prayer
The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish for folly, but leniently winks at the indiscretions of youth...For one sin God banished our first parents from Eden; for one sin all the posterity of Canaan fell under a curse which remains over them to this day; for one sin Moses was excluded form the promised land; Elisha’s servant smitten with leprosy; Ananias and Sapphira were cut off from the land of the living.Collection: Christian
Prayer is not intended to change God's purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has decreed that certain events shall come to pass through the means He has appointed for their accomplishment.Collection: Prayer
We must not forget that the issues of Eternity are settled in Time.Collection: Issues
Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.Collection: Errors
When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.Collection: Reality
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. Prayer is a confession of creature weakness, yes, of helplessness. Prayer is the acknowledgment of our need and the spreading of it before God.Collection: Prayer
A 'god' who's will is resisted, designs frustrated, and purpose checkmated, possesses no title to Deity.Collection: Design
God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure.Collection: Sovereign
God has often given His people favor in the sight of heathen masters (as Joseph and Daniel), and has magnified the sufficiency of His grace by preserving their souls in the midst of the most unpromising environments. His saints are found in very unlikely places.Collection: Sight
Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a principle of holiness is imparted to him; the former can only be ascertained by the latter. It is impossible to obtain a Scriptural knowledge that the merits of Christ's finished work are reckoned to my account, except by proving that the efficacy of the Holy Spirit's work is evident in my soul.Collection: Religious
A natural faith is sufficient for trusting a human object; but a supernatural faith is required to trust savingly in a Divine object.Collection: Natural
From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still lives, that God still observes, ... still reigns. Faith is now in the crucible, it is being tested by fire, and there is no fixed... resting place for the heart and mind but in the Throne of God. What is needed now, as never before, is a full, positive, constructive setting forth of the Godhood of God.Collection: Faith
An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.Collection: Atheist
It is only in proportion as the Christian manifests the fruit of a genuine conversion that he is entitled to regard himself and be regarded by others as one of the called and elect of God. It is just in proportion as we add to our faith the other Christian graces that we have solid ground on which to rest in the assurance we belong to the family of Christ. It is not those who are governed by self-will, but "as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God" (Rom. 8:14).Collection: Christian
Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.Collection: Prayer
Where sin had brought men, love brought the Saviour.Collection: Men
In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people.Collection: Heart
Real prayer is communion with GodCollection: Prayer
Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him.Collection: Fall
If I have never mourned over my waywardness, then I have no solid ground for rejoicing.Collection: Rejoice
Christ is the Divine answer to the Devil's overthrow of our first parents.Collection: Parent
Love is the queen of all the Christain graces.Collection: Queens
Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.Collection: Men
Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.Collection: Prayer
For a Christian to defy adversities is to "despise" chastisement. Instead of hardening himself to endure stoically, there should be a melting of the heart.Collection: Christian
To the one who delights in the sovereignty of God the clouds not only have a 'silver lining' but they are silver all through, the darkness only serving to offset the light!Collection: Christian
Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and perfecting the events which were to shed around the evening of his life the halo of a glorious and cloudless sunset. All things were working together for his good! And so, troubled soul, the "much tribulation" will soon be over, and as you enter the "kingdom of God" you shall then see, no longer "through a glass darkly" but in the unshadowed sunlight of the Divine presence, that "all things" did "work together" for your personal and eternal good.Collection: Sunset