Sermons & Devotionals by Grace Quotes

(John MacDuff, "The Night Dream of the Desert") Our Omnipotent God keeps watch over the lichen on the rock, and the lily on the mountain side. He tempers His wind to the fragile flower as it trembles on the lip of the Alpine glacier. He follows the timid bird to its cleft; feeds the young raven's br... Read More

(Spurgeon, "Joy in God" #2550, Romans 5:11) Many are very busy trying to construct a god for themselves, such as they think God ought to be. And it generally turns out that they fashion a god like themselves, for that saying of the psalmist concerning idols and 'idol makers' is still true, "And thos... Read More

From Spurgeon's, "THE SILVER TRUMPET" Christ is a great Savior to meet the great transgressions of great rebels with a great salvation. The vast machinery of redemption was never undertaken for a little purpose. There must be a great end in so great a plan, carried out at so great an expense, guaran... Read More

(adapted from Octavius Winslow's, "The Redeemer, the Revelation of the Father's Glory" October, 1844) "The time is surely coming," says the Sovereign Lord, "when I will send a famine on the land; not a famine of bread or water but of hearing the words of the Lord." Amos 8:11 Already has this famine ... Read More

(John MacDuff, "Hospice of the Pilgrim" 1891) "Your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things." Matt. 6:32 What a rest is this for weary, burdened wayfarers! It is the assurance not only of a 'needs be' in whatever befalls them; but that all are the appointments of their heavenly ... Read More

Spurgeon, "Joshua’s Obedience" No. 796. NATURE is a looking-glass in which I see the face of God. I delight to gaze abroad, and "Look through nature, up to nature's God." We may delight ourselves in the works of God, and find much pleasure therein, and get much advanced towards God himself by consid... Read More

(Winslow, "The Nature and Necessity of Experimental Religion") The spiritual mind, fond of soaring through nature in quest of new proofs of God's existence, and fresh emblems of His wisdom, power and goodness, exults in the thought that it is his Father's domain he treads! He feels that God, his God... Read More

Never, never neglect the Word of God. The Word will make your heart rich with truth, rich with understanding, and then your conversation, when it flows from your mouth, will be like your heart-- rich, soothing, and sweet. Make your heart full of rich, generous love, and then the stream that flows fr... Read More

(John MacDuff, "The Night Watches") "The Lord does whatever pleases Him throughout all heaven and earth, and on the seas and in their depths." Ps. 135:6 How blessed that elementary truth: "The Lord reigns!" To know that there is no chance or accident with God; that He decrees... the fall of a sparro... Read More

(Henry Law, "Beacons of the Bible" 1869) When evil fills the heart, evil effects will soon appear. From tainted sources, tainted waters flow. The tree proclaims the qualities of its root. When poison permeates the veins, the whole body sickens. The plague begun, spreads an infecting course. When Ada... Read More

(adapted from Spurgeon's sermon, "Precious, Honorable, Beloved" #917.) "I have loved you." Isaiah 43:4. Come, heir of heaven, listen a moment. God has loved you eternally. Before the stars began to shine, and before the sun knew his place and poured forth his oceans of light, God loved you in partic... Read More

(Octavius Winslow, "Evening Thoughts") Of what value is all our knowledge of truth . . . if it does not lead us to Jesus; if it does not expand our views of His glory; if it does not conform our minds to His image; if it does not increase our love to Him, if it does not quicken our obedience to His ... Read More

(adapted from Octavius Winslow's "Morning Thoughts") "I the Lord search the heart." Jeremiah 17:10. Solemn as is this view of the Divine character, the believing mind finds in it sweet and hallowed repose. What more consolatory truth in some of the most trying positions of a child of God than this; ... Read More

(Octavius Winslow, "Divine Realities" 1860) "My times are in Your hand." Psalm 31:15 Learn to be content with your present lot, with God's dealings with, and His disposal of, you. You are just where His providence has, in its inscrutable, but all wise and righteous decision, placed you. It may be a ... Read More

(John Angell James, "Christian Love" 1828) "And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love Him, and are called according to His purpose for them." Romans 8:28 Providence is God's government of the universe. Providence is that mighty scheme . . . which commence... Read More

(Favell Lee Mortimer, "Family Devotions") "Every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood." Genesis 8:21 "I was born a sinner--yes, from the moment my mother conceived me." Psalm 51:5 "We were born with an evil nature, and we were under God's wrath." Ephesians 2:3 There never was but one trul... Read More

(From Winslow's, "The Man of God Divinely Prospered") "...the Lord was with Joseph, and whatever he did, the Lord made it to prosper." Genesis 39:23 The Lord is with His saints, ordaining and shaping their every step. The man of God advances in no uncertain, unprepared path in life. His whole career... Read More

By Spurgeon There are many who would like to be thought to be sons of God, and therefore every morning they wickedly say- "Our Father who art in heaven," though God is not their Father. If they were to say, "Our father," to him who is REALLY their father, they would pray to the devil, for God is no ... Read More

The following is from Spurgeon's sermon, "Multitudinous Thoughts and Sacred Comforts" #883. Remember that your way is ordered by a higher power than your will and choice. The eternal destiny of God has fixed your every footstep. Believe that wisdom, not blind fate, but God's wisdom, has ordained the... Read More

Our proper enjoyment of every earthly blessing? (Hannah More, "The Love of God") There are three requirements to our proper enjoyment of every earthly blessing which God bestows on us: 1. A thankful reflection on the goodness of the giver. 2. A deep sense of the unworthiness of the receiver. 3. A so... Read More