Sermons & Devotionals by Grace Quotes

(J. C. Philpot, "Joy and Gladness for Mourning Souls") "I am full of confusion!" Job 10:15 God is the great Ruler, Director, and Controller of all things! We must not look on the varied events that are ever taking place in this world, as a mere matter of 'chance'--a confused medley--as though these ... Read More

(J. A. James, "The Practical Believer Delineated") "And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose." Romans 8:28 Strong faith has a firm persuasion of God's over-ruling Providence--so comprehensive as to include the ... Read More

"I have many people in this city." Acts 18:10 (by Spurgeon) This should be a great encouragement to try to do good, since God has among the vilest of the vile, the most reprobate, the most debauched and drunken, an elect people who must be saved. When you take the Word to them, you do so because God... Read More

(edited from "The Bow in the Clouds" by John MacDuff) "I am the Lord, and I do not change. That is why you descendants of Jacob are not already completely destroyed." Malachi 3:6 The Unchangeableness of God. What an anchor for a storm tossed sea! Change is our portion here! Scenes are altering. Joys... Read More

(from Dagg's "Manual of Theology") "And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose." Romans 8:28 It should fill us with joy, that God's infinite wisdom guides the affairs of the world. Many of its events are shrouded... Read More

by Matthew Mead "Alas! it is an infinite righteousness that must satisfy for our sins, for it is an infinite God that is offended by us. If ever your sin be pardoned, it is infinite mercy that must pardon it; if ever you be reconciled to God, it is infinite merit must do it; if ever your heart be ch... Read More

(J. C. Philpot, "The Precepts of the Word of God") "When you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which effectually works in you who believe." 1 Thessalonians 2:13 Where God's word effectually works in the ... Read More

(Thomas Reade, 'Christian Meditations') It is profitable to consider what I deserve, and what I enjoy, to awaken self abasement, and gratitude. If the righteous Lord were to deal with me according to my deservings, I would at this moment be under the rack of excruciating pain; or, under the pressure... Read More

(J. C. Ryle, "One Blood") One plague of our age is the widespread dislike to sound doctrine. In the place of it, the idol of the day is a kind of jelly-fish Christianity--a Christianity without bone, or muscle, or sinew-- without any distinct teaching about the atonement or the work of the Spirit, o... Read More

From Spurgeon's sermon, "Jacob and Esau" "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." Romans 9:15. There is a man up in the gallery there, that, work as hard as he likes, he cannot earn more than fifteen shillings a week. And here is another man that gets a thousand a year. What is the reason of thi... Read More

(Henry Law, "Gleanings from the Book of Life") "God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God." 2 Cor. 5:21 It is a comforting thought, that the sins thus removed from the guilty and transferred to the guiltless, leave the real transgressor rel... Read More

From Spurgeon's sermon, "Justice Satisfied" God is just. And because God is just sin must be punished. Ah, sinner, if God did not punish your sin, he has ceased to be what he has always been-- the severely just, the inflexibly righteous God. The justice of God is in itself a great barrier to the sal... Read More

(John MacDuff, "Memories of Patmos") "In an instant, I, the Lord Almighty, will come against them with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and storm and consuming fire." Isaiah 29:6 Winds, and earthquakes, and tempests are not the capricious outbreaks of unregulated mechanical for... Read More

(Winslow, "This God is Our God") "For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even to the end." Ps. 48:14 "The world passes away." Everything here in this present world is changing. "Life is like a painted dream, Like the rapid summer stream, Like the fleeting meteor's ray, Like t... Read More

(The following is from the biography of Joseph Philpot, written by his son) There was nothing my father mistrusted more than 'childhood piety.' He insisted that children should never be taught or allowed to use the language of 'personal possession' in reference to God. To sing, for instance, "Rock o... Read More

(Hannah More, "Prayer") That sun that has shone unremittingly from the day is a stupendous exertion of God's power, an astonishing exhibition of omnipotence. In adoring the providence of God, we are apt to be struck with what is new and out of the usual course, while we too much overlook long, habit... Read More

(J. C. Philpot, "Prevailing Pleas" 1865) "The human heart is most deceitful and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?" Jer. 17:9 Sometimes we are so astonished . . . at what we are, at what we have been, or at what we are capable of. We stand sometimes and look at our heart, and see wh... Read More

(Thomas Reade, "On the Immensity of God") Lord Jesus, make me.... humble, while I meditate on your humility; loving, while I think upon your love; holy, while I dwell upon your purity; just, while I contemplate your righteousness; merciful, while I behold your grace; joyful, while I review your ever... Read More

(by Thomas Watson) There is no rowing to paradise except upon the stream of repenting tears. Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet. Some bless themselves that they have a stock of knowledge, but what is knowledge good for, without repentance? Learning and a bad heart, is like a pretty face wi... Read More

(J. C. Philpot, "The Lord's Merciful Look Upon His People") "Look upon me, and be merciful unto me." Ps. 119:132 When shall we ever get beyond the need of God's mercy? We feel our need of continual mercy . . . as our sins abound, as our guilt is felt, as our corruption works, as our conscience is bu... Read More