God could not, nor can, receive any additional good by our salvation. But it was love, mere love; it was free love that brought the Lord Jesus Christ into our world. —George Whitefield, 1714-1770
Jesus Christ did not come into the world to help you to forget your sin. He has not come to furnish you with a cloak with which to cover it. He has not appeared that He may so strengthen your minds (as some men would have […]
Beg of God a waiting frame of spirit As there is nothing more sinful in itself, nor more tormenting to ourselves in an evil day, than an impatient, hasty spirit, so there is nothing more conducive to our glorifying of God, nor to the quiet of […]
There must be humility if we mean to be at peace For it is only by pride that men make contention, but humility pulls down the heart and makes it pliant and easy to be dealt with. But where wrongs lie heavy, sin lies light; where […]
The glorious presence of God that the saints shall have of God in heaven is a great part of their happiness Heaven would not be heaven without the presence of God. The presence of God in the most miserable place possible would be a greater happiness […]