Every temptation you overcome makes you stronger to overcome others, while every temptation that defeats you makes you weaker.

—D.L. Moody

Child of God, you cost Christ too much for Him to forget you.

—Charles Spurgeon

How wonderful are your Scriptures! How profound! We see their surface and it attracts us like children. And yet, O my God, their depth is stupendous.

—Augustine

As long as we cannot escape from ourselves we cannot escape from incitements to sin.

—Charles Spurgeon

Already in creation God made himself like human beings when he created them in his image. But in re-creation he became human and entered totally into our nature and situation.

—Herman Bavinck

"Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel."
Isaiah 7:14

Let us today go down to Bethlehem, and in company with wondering shepherds and adoring Magi, let us see him who was born King of the Jews, for we by faith can claim an interest in him, and can sing, "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given." Jesus is Jehovah incarnate, our Lord and our God, and yet our brother and friend; let us adore and admire.

Let us notice at the very first glance his miraculous conception. It was a thing unheard of before, and unparalleled since, that a virgin should conceive and bear a Son. The first promise ran thus, "The seed of the woman," not the offspring of the man. Since venturous woman led the way in the sin which brought forth Paradise lost, she, and she alone, ushers in the Regainer of Paradise. Our Saviour, although truly man, was as to his human nature the Holy One of God.

Let us reverently bow before the holy Child whose innocence restores to manhood its ancient glory; and let us pray that he may be formed in us, the hope of glory.

Fail not to note his humble parentage. His mother has been described simply as "a virgin," not a princess, or prophetess, nor a matron of large estate. True the blood of kings ran in her veins; nor was her mind a weak and untaught one, for she could sing most sweetly a song of praise; but yet how humble her position, how poor the man to whom she stood affianced, and how miserable the accommodation afforded to the new-born King!

Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendour.

I am sure, if you have not gone back from Christ, he will not from you; he will root out the accursed things of this world and dwell in your hearts.

—George Whitefield

We do not have to wait for eternal life until we are dead; we have it now.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Salvation is deliverance from sin, and accordingly it is deliverance from all the evils that find their roots in sin.

—B.B. Warfield

The God of the past has blotted out your sin.

The God of the present makes all things work for your good.

The God of the future will never leave you nor forsake you.

—Charles Spurgeon

O you scoffers, come and see this Jesus, this Lord of glory whom you have despised; and if you will but come to Christ, he will be willing to receive you

—George Whitefield

All our infirmities, whatever they are, are just opportunities for God to display his gracious work in us.

—Charles Spurgeon

John 12:12-13

The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out: “Hosanna! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ The King of Israel!”

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

—J.C. Ryle

What is closer to God’s ears than a heart that is penitent and life founded on faith?

—Augustine

'If we are dead with CHRIST, we believe that we shall also live with him.' And then as to the resurrection of CHRIST, says he, 'If ye be risen with CHRIST, seek those things which are above.'

—George Whitefield

Our God is love, even love itself. God's love is infinite just as He Himself is, and He loves to show the utmost of His love.

—Thomas Goodwin

The Christian Church is not made for good men, but for men.

—G.K. Chesterton

Persecution purges the church of false teachers, false gospels, and false professions of faith.

—John MacArthur

Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing in God's judgment, hating what He hates, loving what He loves, and measuring everything in this world by the standard of His Word.

—J.C. Ryle