Joseph Alleine Quotes

“Oh Christians, if you would avoid self-deceit, see that you mind not only your actions but your motives.”

“When men trust in their own righteousness they do indeed reject Christ's. Beloved, you had need be watchful on every hand, for not only your sins—but your duties may undo you.”

“O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you 'little lower than the angels'; sin has made you little better than the devils.”

“The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification.”

“Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people.”

“There is no remedy, but you must either turn or burn.”

“Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world, peace with sin, and peace in sin.”

“Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under His feet.”

“The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.”

“For a soul to come to Jesus, is the grandest event in its history.”

“Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure.”

“It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace.”

“God finds nothing in man to turn His heart, but enough to turn his stomach.”

“Without conversion your being is vain. Is it not a pity you should be good for nothing, an unprofitable burden of the earth, a mere wart in the body of the universe?”

“If thy hope be any thing worth, it will purify thee from thy sins.”

“Come from your knees to the sermon, and come from the sermon to your knees.”

“Almsgiving is not a service of God, but of vain-glory, if it spring not from divine love.”

“While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.”

“There is no entering into heaven but by the straight passage of the second birth; without holiness you shall never see God.”

“None are drawn to Christ by their calling, nor come to him by believing, but only his sheep, those whom the Father has given him. Effectual calling runs parallel with eternal election.”

“Whatever you pretend, if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company, in a word, if you are not a holy, strict, and self-denying Christian, you cannot be saved.”

“There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.”

“Conversion is a work above man's power... a resurrection from the dead, a new creation.”

“Satan turned Eve's eye to the apple, Achan's eye to the wedge of gold, Ahab's eye to Naboth's vineyard, and then what work did he make with them!”

“A man may as well hew marble without tools, or paint without colors or instruments, or build without materials, as perform any acceptable service without the graces of the Spirit, which are both the materials and instruments in the work.”

“Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.”

“Never think you can convert yourself. If ever you would be savingly converted, you must despair of doing it in your own strength.”

“Here I will throw myself; if You slay me, I will not go from Your door.”