“The doctrine of the atonement is to my mind one of the surest proofs of the divine inspiration of Holy Scripture. Who would or could have thought of the just Ruler dying for the unjust rebel?”
“The first link between my soul and Christ is, not my goodness, but my badness; not my merit, but my misery; not my standing, but my falling; not my riches, but my need.”
“The more God loves you, and the more you love God, the more expensive will you find it to sin. An ordinary sinner sins cheaply, the child of God sins very dearly.”
“The more self sinks, the more Christ rises: like the two scales of a balance, one must go down that the other may go up: self must sink in repentance that Christ may rise by faith.”
“The mourning of a penitent is not because of hell: if there were no hell he would mourn just as much. His grief is not for what sin might cost himself, but for what it has cost the Substitute.”
