Gardiner Spring Quotes

“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.”

“Men who have so little piety that they have no cross to bear, may well suspect the vigor and consistency, if not the genuineness, of their religion.”

“There is no room for melancholy and depression where eternal realities form the sources of enjoyment.”

“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth." Rest not until you are enabled to look more within the veil; and fix your hearts more steadfastly on the only permanent realities in the universe.”

“We may account for some links in the chain, but the chain itself terminates at the cross.”

“God has his proper place then, and the sinner his—God has the throne, and the sinner is in the dust.”

“There is a strong presentiment of future punishment, even in the minds of those who are not thus enlightened.”

“The man who is naturally covetous does not eradicate the love of money by a single effort.”

“An obdurate conscience gradually becomes more callous and seared; whereas, a sensitive conscience becomes more and more sensitive, and the gentlest reproof renews its grief.”

“The weight of sin is taken off from you, and in the eye of the law transferred to the mighty Sufferer on Calvary.”