Gardiner Spring

“He may discover some probabilities of pardon; he may indulge some flickering hopes—but these occasional flashes from the dark sky do not soothe his fears.”

“There is one way of obtaining the full assurance of hope, which is almost always successful—it is, by growing in grace.”

“Think, then, of the cross and his rich mercy, his free, immeasurable, everlasting mercy, whose blood makes the foulest clean.”

“Obliterate all the holiness in our world that is the sole effect of the cross, and how much, do you think, would there be left?”

“The offence of the cross has not ceased, nor has the time come when a self-denying spirit does not belong to the catalogue of Christian graces.”

“Good men look not on sin as a trifle; they have no excuse for it, and urge no palliation.”