Sermons & Devotionals by Grace Quotes

(by John MacDuff) Every thread in the web of life is woven by the Great Craftsman! Not one movement in these swiftly darting needles is chance; but all is by His direction, and all is to result in good!... Read More

(Anne Dutton's Letters on Spiritual Subjects) I humbly think that the bondage of the children of Israel in Egypt, under Pharaoh and his task-masters, was typical of the cruel bondage of the people of God in a state of nature, under the tyranny of sin and Satan and a broken law of works. Their delive... Read More

(Winslow, "Retirement, The School and Discipline of Spiritual Life") The frivolous and frothy literature of the day, of which, alas! the press is so prolific, is exerting a most baneful influence upon the spiritual life of many Christian professors. In numberless cases the exaggerated fiction; the s... Read More

from "The Preciousness of God's Word" by Octavius Winslow As a system of 'consolation' Christianity has no equal. No other religion in the wide world touches the hidden springs of the soul, or reaches the lowest depths of human sorrow, but the religion of Christ. When your hearts have been overwhelm... Read More

(J. A. James, "Parental Desire, Duty, & Encouragement") The godly parent reflects on the destiny of that being which with rapture, he calls his child. He penetrates the disguise which the 'helplessness and unconsciousness of infancy' seem to have thrown around that child, and discovers the grandeur ... Read More

(Bonar, "Human Heedlessness; Divine Remembrance") "They do not realize that I remember all their evil deeds. Their sins engulf them; they are always before Me." Hosea 7:2 What is sin? It is not . . . an accident, nor an imprudence, nor a misfortune, nor a disease, nor a weakness. It may be all these... Read More

by Don Fortner Our God is in control of this world- absolutely in control of it (Ps. 76:10). God, and God alone, is in absolute, total control of the entire universe. We can and should trust Him with implicit confidence in all things, and with all things. The Word of God, the promises of God, the pr... Read More

"He who worships the true God detests and loathes idols." (Spurgeon) (the following is by Don Fortner) God the Father, in eternity past, before the world began, chose a people whom he determined to save and sovereignly predestinated all things that ever come to pass to secure, absolutely and infalli... Read More

From Spurgeon's sermon, "Substitution" A BOOK is the expression of the thoughts of the writer. The book of 'nature' is an expression of the thoughts of God. We have God's 'terrible' thoughts in the thunder and lightning; God's 'loving' thoughts in the sunshine and the balmy breeze; God's 'bounteous,... Read More

From Spurgeon's, INDEPENDENCE OF CHRISTIANITY GOD'S first and greatest object is his own glory. There was a time, before all time, when there was no day, except the Ancient of days- when God dwelt alone in the magnificence of his sublime solitude. Whether he should create, or not create was a questi... Read More

Spurgeon, "The Mighty Arm" No. 674. "Powerful is your arm! Strong is your hand! Your right hand is lifted high in glorious strength." -Psalm 89:13 God's power is perfectly irresistible. When God puts forth his omnipotence, who, who is there that can stay his hand? Proud hearts are humbled, hard hear... Read More

(Charles Spurgeon) "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil." Jeremiah 29:11 We cannot always trace God's hand, but we can always trust God's heart.... Read More

O God, I read Your heart in the cross, in the wounds, in the tears, in the anguish, in the blood of Your Son Jesus. Octavius Winslow... Read More

(Jonathan Edwards, "Spiritual Pride") "I hate pride and arrogance!" Proverbs 8:13 "The Lord detests all the proud of heart. Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished." Prov. 16:5 Pride is a person having too high an opinion of himself. Pride is the first sin that ever entered into the universe, a... Read More

GOD'S OMNIPRESENCE "Perhaps the most serious, sobering thing my mind has ever contemplated is the fact that I am always in the presence of God. God cannot be shut out anywhere. Even in the most secret recesses of my mind and the deepest, most secluded imaginations of my heart, God is there. Everythi... Read More

(J. C. Philpot, "The Living Sacrifice Presented" 1856) "That good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God." Romans 12:2 God's will is "perfect". In it, there is . . . no spot, no stain, no weakness, no error, no instability. It is and indeed must necessarily be as perfect as God Himself; for it ema... Read More

(John Mason's Spiritual Sayings) The presence of God's glory is in heaven; the presence of His power on earth; the presence of His justice in hell; the presence of His grace with His people. If He denies us His powerful presence we fall into nothing. If He denies us His gracious presence we fall int... Read More

from Spurgeon's sermon, "Three Precious Things" #931 "...He has given us His very great and precious promises..." 2 Peter 1:4 God's promises are precious because they tell of exceeding great and precious things. We have promises in the Bible which time would fail us to repeat, which for breadth and ... Read More

(Octavius Winslow, The Lord's Prayer) This world is not. . . a kingdom without a throne, a throne without a sovereign, or a sovereign without a scepter. By no blind accident are the affairs of this planet governed. God is in the history of the world . . . its past, its present, and its yet unshapen ... Read More

Spurgeon "He sends forth his commandment upon earth: His word runs very swiftly" (Psalm 147:15). No language ever stirs the deeps of my nature like the Word of God, and none produces such a profound calm within my spirit. As no other voice can, it melts me to tears, it humbles me in the dust, it fir... Read More