The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards.

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.

By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body.

If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them.

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

God is sufficient in all ages for His church.

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.

I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.

It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.

I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.

Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist.

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.

I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God's children.

The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes.

Let those who like society better have it.

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards.

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.

The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of Gods church.

This truth of the gathering together of Gods children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.