Daniel Evans > Daniel's Quotes

“That one of the greatest privileges and advancements of believers, both in this world and unto eternity, consists in their beholding the glory of Christ.”
― John Owen, The Glory of Christ

“Yea, the soul is disturbed, not edified, in all contemplations of future glory, when things are proposed unto it whereof in this life it has neither foretaste, sense, experience, nor evidence. No man ought to look for anything in heaven, but what one way or other he has some experience of in this life.”
― John Owen, The Glory of Christ

“How often have I thought that, if he had said, “Bare your back to the scourge, and take fifty lashes”; I would have said, “Here I am! Come along with your whip, and beat as hard as you please, so long as I can obtain peace and rest, and get rid of my sin.” Yet that simplest of all matters—believing in Christ crucified, accepting His finished salvation, being nothing, and letting Him be everything, doing nothing but trusting to what He has done,—I could not get a hold of it.10”
― Alex DiPrima, Spurgeon: A Life

“The law can do nothing else but reveal sin and pronounce condemnation upon the sinner, and yet we cannot get men away from it, even though we show them how sweetly Jesus stands between them and”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Christ's Glorious Achievements

“This is the object of the law: it empties that grace may fill, and wounds that mercy may heal.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Christ's Glorious Achievements

“What the law could not do Jesus has done. He provides the righteousness which the law asks for but cannot produce.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Christ's Glorious Achievements