An Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount Quotes

“Consciousness of the surgings of unbelief, the swellings of pride, the coldness of his love, and his paucity of fruit, make him cry, "O wretched man that I am." A”
― Arthur W. Pink, An Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount

“Blessed are they that mourn." The first reference is to that initial mourning which ever precedes a genuine conversion, for there must be a real sense of sin before the remedy for it will even be desired.”
― Arthur W. Pink, An Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount

“It corresponds to the initial awakening of the prodigal in the far country, when he "began to be in want.”
― Arthur W. Pink, An Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount

“But if I minister unto the needy out of a respect to the Divine authority and with the desire of pleasing God, acting from regard for His will, to which I long to be conformed in all things, then it is a spiritual act and acceptable unto the Lord. (Condensed from John Brown.)”
― Arthur W. Pink, An Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount

“Nor was it one of the holy mountains, nor one of the mountains of Zion, but a common mountain; by which Christ would intimate that there is no distinguishing holiness of place now, under the Gospel, as there was under the Law; but that it is the will of God that men should pray and praise everywhere, anywhere. provided it be decent and convenient. Christ preached this Sermon, which was an exposition of the Law, upon a mountain, because upon a mountain the Law was given: and this was also a solemn promulgation of the Christian Law. But observe the difference: when the Law was given the Lord came down upon the mountain, now the Lord ‘went up’ into one; then He spoke in thunder and lightning, now in a still small voice; then the people were ordered to keep their distance, now they are invited to draw near—a blessed change!" (Matthew Henry).”
― Arthur W. Pink, An Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount