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The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. The weakest saint, as well as the strongest, may wear the crown of immortal glory. All may win who, through the power of divine grace, bring their lives into conformity to the will of Christ. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 273. We did not seek after it, but it was sent in search of us. God rejoices to bestow this grace upon every one who hungers for it. To every one He presents terms of mercy, not because we are worthy, but because we are so utterly unworthy. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 10. The law of God, from its very nature, is unchangeable. It is a revelation of the will and the character of its Author. God is love, and His law is love. Its two great principles are love to God and love to man. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 20. The Christian's life is not a modification or improvement of the old, but a transformation of nature. There is a death to self and sin, and a new life altogether. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 22. When the Spirit of God takes possession of the heart, it transforms the life. Sinful thoughts are put away, evil deeds are renounced; love, humility, and peace take the place of anger, envy, and strife. Joy takes the place of sadness, and the countenance reflects the light of heaven. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 22. As soon as there was sin, there was a Saviour. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 23. The only remedy for the sins and sorrows of humanity is Christ. The gospel of His grace alone can cure the evils that curse society. . . . He alone, for the selfish heart of sin, gives the new heart of love. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 25. As the rays of the sun penetrate to the remotest corners of the globe, so God designs that the light of the gospel shall extend to every soul upon the earth. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 26. There is only one power that can make and keep us steadfast--the power of God, imparted to us through the grace of Christ. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 30. Not one soul who in penitence and faith has claimed His protection will Christ permit to pass under the enemy's power. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 31. Everyone who enters the pearly gates of the city of God will enter there as a conqueror, and his greatest conquest will have been the conquest of self. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 31. Everywhere there are hearts crying out for something which they have not. They long for a power that will give them mastery over sin, a power that will deliver them from the bondage of evil, a power that will give health and life and peace. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 32. Human plans for the purification and uplifting of individuals or of society will fail of producing peace, because they do not reach the heart. The only power that can create or perpetuate true peace is the grace of Christ. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 32. When temptations and trials rush in upon us, let us go to God and agonize with Him in prayer. He will not turn us away empty, but will give us grace and strength to overcome, and to break the power of the enemy. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 39. Oh, the mystery of redemption! The love of God for a world that did not love Him! . . . Through endless ages immortal minds, seeking to comprehend the mystery of that incomprehensible love, will wonder and adore. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 42. It will be seen that the glory shining in the face of Jesus is the glory of self-sacrificing love. In the light from Calvary it will be seen that the law of self-renouncing love is the law of life for earth and heaven; that the love which "seeketh not her own" has its source in the heart of God. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 45. Though rewarded with evil for good, and hatred for His love, He had steadfastly pursued His mission of mercy. Never were those repelled that sought His grace. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 48. Christ does not acknowledge any caste, color, or grade as necessary to become a subject of His kingdom. Admittance to His kingdom does not depend upon wealth or a superior heredity. But those who are born of the Spirit are the subjects of His kingdom. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 52. Only to those who receive Christ as their Saviour is given the power to become sons and daughters of God. The sinner cannot, by any power of his own, rid himself of sin. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 53. When a soul receives Christ, he receives power to live the life of Christ. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 53. We owe everything to grace, free grace, sovereign grace. Grace in the covenant ordained our adoption. Grace in the Saviour effected our redemption, our regeneration, and our adoption to heirship with Christ. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 54. Love to man is the earthward manifestation of the love of God. . . . When we love the world as He has loved it, then for us His mission is accomplished. We are fitted for heaven; for we have heaven in our hearts. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 54. God can bestow no higher honor upon mortals than to adopt them into His family, giving them the privilege of calling Him Father. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 57. His intercession is that of a pierced and broken body, of a spotless life. The wounded hands, the pierced side, the marred feet, plead for fallen man, whose redemption was purchased at such infinite cost. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 69. God's love has been expressed in His justice no less than in His mercy. Justice is the foundation of His throne, and the fruit of His love. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 74. Through all our trials we have a never-failing Helper. He does not leave us alone to struggle with temptation, to battle with evil, and be finally crushed with burdens and sorrow. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 77. Jesus cares for each one as though there were not another individual on the face of the earth. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 78. Since Jesus came to dwell with us, we know that God is acquainted with our trials, and sympathizes with our griefs. Every son and daughter of Adam may understand that our Creator is the friend of sinners. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 79. By His humanity, Christ touched humanity; by His divinity, He lays hold upon the throne of God. As the Son of man, He gave us an example of obedience; as the Son of God, He gives us power to obey. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 79. As you draw near to Him with confession and repentance, He will draw near to you with mercy and forgiveness. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 82. The gate of heaven has been left ajar, and the radiance from the throne of God shines into the hearts of those who love Him. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 83. Make your requests known to your Maker. Never is one repulsed who comes to Him with a contrite heart. Not one sincere prayer is lost. . . . It is God to whom we are speaking, and our prayer is heard. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 85. There is a remedy for the sin-sick soul. That remedy is in Jesus. Precious Saviour! His grace is sufficient for the weakest; and the strongest must also have His grace or perish. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 87. Faith such as this is needed in the world today--faith that will lay hold on the promises of God's word, and refuse to let go until Heaven hears. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 88. Give to God the most precious offering that it is possible for you to make; give Him your heart. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 96. In this life we can only begin to understand the wonderful theme of redemption. With our finite comprehension we may consider most earnestly the shame and the glory, the life and the death, the justice and the mercy, that meet in the cross; yet with the utmost stretch of our mental powers we fail to grasp its full significance. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 98. That the Maker of all worlds, the Arbiter of all destinies, should lay aside His glory and humiliate Himself from love to man will ever excite the wonder and adoration of the universe. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 98. When temptations assail you, when care, perplexity, and darkness seem to surround your soul, look to the place where you last saw the light. Rest in Christ's love and under His protecting care. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 109. Let us trust Him. Worry is blind and cannot discern the future. But Jesus sees the end from the beginning, and in every difficulty He has His way prepared to bring relief. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 113. The Lord's care is over all His creatures. He loves them all, and makes no difference, except that He has the most tender pity for those who are called to bear life's heaviest burdens. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 116. Take to Him everything that perplexes the mind. Nothing is too great for Him to bear, for He holds up worlds, He rules over all the affairs of the universe. Nothing that in any way concerns our peace is too small for Him to notice. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 116. No calamity can befall the least of His children, no anxiety harass the soul, no joy cheer, no sincere prayer escape the lips, of which our heavenly Father is unobservant, or in which He takes no immediate interest. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 116. Trust in Him continually, and doubt not His love. He knows all our weakness and that which we need. He will give us grace sufficient for our day. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 117. To the consecrated worker there is wonderful consolation in the knowledge that even Christ during His life on earth sought His Father daily for fresh supplies of needed grace; and from this communion with God He went forth to strengthen and bless others. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 117. All heaven rejoices when weak, faulty human beings give themselves to Jesus, to live His life. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 120. Those who have borne the greatest sorrows are frequently the ones who carry the greatest comfort to others, bringing sunshine wherever they go. . . . Such ones are living proof of the tender care of God, who makes the darkness as well as the light and chastens us for our good. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 122. Let the world see that we are not selfishly absorbed in our own interests, but that we desire others to share our blessings and privileges. Let them see that our religion does not make us unsympathetic or exacting. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 125. He has proffered Himself as an atonement. His gushing blood, His broken body, satisfy the claims of the broken law, and thus He bridges the gulf which sin has made. He suffered in the flesh, that with His bruised and broken body He might cover the defenseless sinner. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 153. Hating sin with a perfect hatred, He yet gathered to His soul the sins of the whole world. Guiltless, He bore the punishment of the guilty. Innocent, yet offering Himself as a substitute for the transgressor. The guilt of every sin pressed its weight upon the divine soul of the world's Redeemer. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 172. The wealth of earth dwindles into insignificance when compared with the worth of a single soul for whom our Lord and Master died. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 173. It was the burden of sin, the sense of its terrible enormity, of its separation of the soul from God--it was this that broke the heart of the Son of God. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 188. The cross is a revelation to our dull senses of the pain that, from its very inception, sin has brought to the heart of God. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 189. Not a sigh is breathed, not a pain felt, not a grief pierces the soul, but the throb vibrates to the Father's heart. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 189. At all times and in all places, in all sorrows and in all afflictions, when the outlook seems dark and the future perplexing, and we feel helpless and alone, the Comforter will be sent in answer to the prayer of faith. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 191. It is by the Spirit that the heart is made pure. Through the Spirit the believer becomes a partaker of the divine nature. Christ has given His Spirit as a divine power to overcome all hereditary and cultivated tendencies to evil, and to impress His own character upon His church. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 194. Never should the Bible be studied without prayer. Before opening its pages we should ask for the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit, and it will be given. . . . The Spirit of truth is the only effectual teacher of divine truth. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 199. When thick clouds of darkness seem to hover over the mind, then is the time to let living faith pierce the darkness and scatter the clouds. True faith rests on the promises contained in the Word of God, and those only who obey that Word can claim its glorious promises. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 207. Christ crucified for our sins; Christ risen from the dead; Christ ascended on high as our intercessor--this is the science of salvation that we need to learn and to teach. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 208. Harmony and union existing among men of varied dispositions is the strongest witness that can be borne that God has sent His Son into the world to save sinners. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 210. Our growth in grace, our joy, our usefulness, all depend on our union with Christ and the degree of faith we exercise in Him. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 211. We can impart only that which we receive from Christ; and we can receive only as we impart to others. As we continue imparting, we continue to receive; and the more we impart, the more we shall receive. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 213. When the soul surrenders itself to Christ, a new power takes possession of the new heart. A change is wrought which man can never accomplish for himself. It is a supernatural work, bringing a supernatural element into human nature. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 215. If you would become acquainted with the Saviour, study the Holy Scriptures. Fill the whole heart with the words of God. They are the living water, quenching your burning thirst. They are the living bread from heaven. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 228. We are to be wholly dependent on the power that He has promised to give us. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 230. If our hearts are softened and subdued by the grace of Christ, and glowing with a sense of God's goodness and love, there will be a natural outflow of love, sympathy, and tenderness to others. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 234. Come close to the great heart of pitying love, and let the current of that divine compassion flow into your heart and from you to the hearts of others. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 234. God gives us the opportunity to impart grace, that He may refill us with increased grace. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 238. Prayer is heaven's ordained means of success in the conflict with sin and the development of Christian character. . . . For the pardon of sin, for the Holy Spirit, for a Christlike temper, for wisdom and strength to do His work, for any gift He has promised, we may ask; and the promise is, "Ye shall receive." -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 239. Man must work with his human power, aided by the divine power of Christ, to resist and to conquer at any cost to himself. In short, man must overcome as Christ overcame. . . . Man must be a co-worker with Christ in the labor of overcoming. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 254. God has not left us to battle with evil in our own finite strength. Whatever may be our inherited or cultivated tendencies to wrong, we can overcome through the power that He is ready to impart. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 254. It is not in the power of earth or hell to compel anyone to do evil. Satan attacks us at our weak points, but we need not be overcome. However severe or unexpected the assault, God has provided help for us, and in His strength we may conquer. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 254. It is His purpose that the highest influence in the universe, emanating from the Source of all power, shall be theirs. They are to have power to resist evil, power that neither earth, nor death, nor hell can master, power that will enable them to overcome as Christ overcame. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 255. Man is naturally inclined to follow Satan's suggestions, and he cannot successfully resist so terrible a foe unless Christ, the mighty Conqueror, dwells in him, guiding his desires, and giving him strength. God alone can limit the power of Satan. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 257. It is only by the grace of God, combined with the most earnest efforts on our part, that we can gain the victory. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 258. Without the power of God's grace and Spirit we cannot reach the high standard He has placed before us. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 258. Instead of looking at ourselves, let us constantly behold Jesus, daily becoming more and more like Him, more and more able to talk of Him, better prepared to avail ourselves of His kindness and helpfulness, and to receive the blessings offered us. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 259. We live by faith, not by sight. The Lord's arrangement is for us to ask Him for the very things that we need. The grace of tomorrow will not be given today. Men's necessity is God's opportunity. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 261. The promise of God is sure, that strength shall be proportioned to our day. We may be confident for the future only in the strength that is given for the present necessities. . . . Do not borrow anxiety for the future. It is today that we are in need. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 261. So with all the promises of God's word. In them He is speaking to us individually, speaking as directly as if we could listen to His voice. It is in these promises that Christ communicates to us His grace and power. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 266. God works by whom He will. He sometimes selects the humblest instrument to do the greatest work, for His power is revealed through the weakness of men. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 270. The Lord is waiting to manifest through His people His grace and power. But He requires that those who engage in His service shall keep their minds ever directed to Him. Every day they should have time for reading the Word of God and for prayer. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 276. By the power of His grace manifested in the transformation of character the world is to be convinced that God has sent His Son as its Redeemer. No other influence that can surround the human soul has such power as the influence of an unselfish life. The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 276. It is by communion with Him, daily, hourly--by abiding in Him--that we grow in grace. He is not only the author, but the finisher of our faith. It is Christ first and last and always. He is to be with us, not only at the beginning and the end of our course, but at every step of the way. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 293. No sooner does one come to Christ, than there is born in his heart a desire to make known to others what a precious friend he has found in Jesus; the saving and sanctifying truth cannot be shut up in his heart. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 305. The spirit of unselfish labor for others gives depth, stability, and Christlike loveliness to the character, and brings peace and happiness to its possessor. . . . Those who thus devote themselves to unselfish effort for the good of others, are most surely working out their own salvation. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 305. No amount of past experience will suffice for the present, or will strengthen us to overcome the difficulties in our path. We must have new grace and fresh strength daily in order to be victorious. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 311. Faith is the gift of God, but the power to exercise it is ours. Faith is the hand by which the soul takes hold upon the divine offers of grace and mercy. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 315. The world needs a practical demonstration of what the grace of God can do in restoring to human beings their lost kingship, giving them mastery of themselves. There is nothing that the world needs so much as a knowledge of the gospel's saving power revealed in Christlike lives. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 334. Enfeebled and defective as it may appear, the church is the one object upon which God bestows in a special sense His supreme regard. It is the theater of His grace, in which He delights to reveal His power to transform hearts. -- God's Amazing Grace, p. 338. |