Horatius Bonar Quotes

“The world saw nothing in Paul but vileness and meanness; Paul saw nothing in the world but the same.”

“I would ask, What does the word election mean in common speech?”

“That blood, by covering his sins, brings pardon--pardon to anyone who is willing to take pardon in this way from God.”

“He who, years before, had gone forth, leaving all for Christ, counting all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus,—he now, as if he had never gone forth at all, cries aloud, let us go forth!”

“He is in search of many things of which sin has robbed Him; affection, homage, allegiance, reverence, obedience; but worship,--the worship of man, and of man's earth, He is specially seeking and claiming.”

“I saw that God would be perfectly just in sending me to hell, and that to hell I must go, unless I were saved of mere grace, and, as it were, in spite of myself.”

“They teach us plainly that our world’s history is a history of events, preordained by God from eternity, yet at the same time coming to pass by the free agency of man.”

“This is the result of the application of the blood to those who were 'blacker than the coal,' redder than crimson.”

“Ere it could come fully out into view, the ritual must be disannulled; ere the glorious building can be seen, the scaffolding must be taken down.”

“What a difference to our whole man, our whole spiritual being, will the renewal of the body make!”

“That death was like the touching of the electric wire between Calvary and Moriah, setting loose suddenly the divine power that for a thousand years had been lying in wait to rend the veil and cast down the barrier.”

“True, this ancient priesthood had only to do with the flesh; it pertained but to the outward person of the sinner, and the mere visible courts of God.”

“The victory and the triumph were to be his; and, if his, then also ours.”

“However briefly the message had been spoken, it left man inexcusable if he persisted in cherishing aught like a doubt.”

“Blood 'shed' is the symbol or visible exhibition of 'death'.”

“His person is the great vessel of fullness, in which is contained all that is needed by the neediest of souls.”

“When you are dreaming of earth's long, calm, summer days, He will come.”

“All have been “ covered with a cloud” in the day of the fierce anger of the Lord!”

“He stood in their stead, and they were viewed as one with Him from His cradle to His cross, and from His cross to His throne.”

“In Jehovah’s eye His people were with Him all the time, from His coming into the world.”

“Death, with all its consequences, lies on the transgressor until another death comes (in the symbolic form of blood), and washes it away.”

“It is 'drink indeed.' It calms, it revives, it refreshes, it soothes; it is like cold water to the thirsty lips under a scorching sun.”

“Thus, taking as true the good news of the finished sacrifice, we rest there.”

“Hitherto he had looked up from earth to heaven; but he was taught that ere long he should look down on earth from heaven.”

“All we can say is that 'we have known and believed the love which God hath to us.' This is the only account which we can give of ourselves or of our wondrous change.”

“Grace had made up the breach ; but it had done so in a way which continued to remind him that nothing but grace could have done it.”

“And for thee, unsaved one, there remaineth nought but the everlasting darkness, which no star shall gladden, and on which no hope shall arise.”

“Every individual in the human race, or even every individual in Judea, did not seek Him.”

“It offers to the sinner a reversal of the sentence of death, by presenting him with the death of another in his stead.”

“The great sacrifice has met law and righteousness at every point.”

“Earth,—the whole earth,—is the guilty region, on which the fire should be poured.”

“He only can fill us; and with his fulness set our hearts at rest.”

“Patience and longsuffering mark all his doings: he loves to spare; he lingers over his handiwork, loath to destroy it even when vile.”

“God had been with him in Eden, and he was still with him when expelled from it.”

“The 'blood of the covenant' is the payment demanded by the Father, and paid by the Son.”

“In believing God's testimony to the blood; it becomes sprinkled upon us; and from that moment we are safe.”

“What, then, has our service, our worship, our religion been?”

“He stablishes or confirms us in Him; knitting us more strongly; rooting us more deeply; fastening the stone more firmly to the foundation, that nothing may separate us.”

“And thus that last burnt-offering gave to the Church the assurance that the reconciliation was accomplished.”

“What a heaven upon earth must be enjoyed in fellowship with him!”

“The second death yields back no victims; the lake of fire allows no brand to be plucked from its everlasting burnings.”

“The temple does not crumble down the moment that the worshipper has departed.”

“In short, what is there in the whole Christian life which I cannot do of myself, if I can begin this career without help from God?”

“To him whose sin is thus 'covered' by the blood, God is propitious.”

“Our sins had slain Him, shed His blood, and brought Him down to the grave!”

“Christian bravery is that in which we are followers of primitive saints, of martyrs, reformers, and covenanters.”

“It is to the point of departure and of variance that God brings the sinner back.”

“That to which He looked forward was not so much the rending of the veil, as the result of that rending,--both for Himself and for His Church, His body, the redeemed from among men.”

“I felt that if God were to forgive me all my past sins, I should again destroy my soul, and that in less than a day’s time.”

“Nay, more still, that inner sanctuary has been also sprinkled with blood, so that a sinner may go in and worship there with safety to himself, and without defiling the sacred floor and walls.”

“It seems almost as if man would thrust God aside, take the reins of government out of His hands and be to himself a god.”

“As the great Shepherd, He gave His life for the sheep; His life was accepted instead of theirs; His death made their dying no longer necessary--no, unjust.”

“The name of our God.—'The God of all grace.' Not only is He the gracious God, but emphatically He is the God of grace, nay, the God of all grace.”

“Death is swallowed up in victory. 'O death,' He says, 'I will be thy plague; O grave, I will be thy destruction.' 2.”

“To know the wonders of earth is good; to know the wonders of heaven is better and nobler still; but to know HIM who made, and who fills both earth and heaven, is more blessed, more excellent, more glorious, by far.”

“Thy very being seems withered and hollow, even when mirth is flushing the cheek, and fond visions of earthly gaiety are luring thee onward.”

“Are we satisfied that the way has been opened, and the blood sprinkled, so as to make it safe for us to enter?”

“When we speak of the election of a member of Parliament, do we mean that he first chose himself, then the people chose him because he had chosen himself?”

“Our whole anxiety is, not how shall we secure the glory of Jehovah, but how shall we multiply conversions?”

“The paying down the money is one thing; the redeeming the person so paid for, so ransomed, is something more.”

“Under the weight of 'rejected blood' the unbelieving sinner perishes.”

“This longsuffering, or tender pity to the lost, is not forgetfulness, or slackness in promise, or indifference to sin, or weakness, or relaxation of law, or good-natured connivance at evil.”

“They soothe no sorrow, they dry up no tears, they knit no broken bonds.”

“He who believes enters into possession of all that it contains.”