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Robert Traill Quotes
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“Wisdom without Christ is damning folly, righteousness without Christ is guilt and condemnation, sanctification without Christ is filth and sin, redemption without Christ is bondage and slavery.”
“Let us make Christ crucified our great study as Christians, and the preaching of him our main work as ministers.”
“Faith in Jesus Christ is neither work, nor condition, nor qualification, in justification; but is a mere instrument, receiving (as an empty hand receives the freely given alms) the righteousness of Christ.”
“Never was a sinner qualified for Christ. He is well qualified for us.”
“This doctrine is a spiritual mystery, and does not lie level with a natural understanding. Working for life a man naturally understands, but believing for life, he understands not.”
“This faith, we teach, purifies the heart, and always inclines to holiness of life.”
“Tell him of Christ's ability and goodwill to save; that no man was ever rejected by him who cast himself upon him; that desperate cases are glorious triumphs in his art of saving.”
“A direct act of saving faith is that by which a lost sinner goes out of himself to Christ for help.”
“The plain old Protestant doctrine is that the place of faith in justification is only that of a hand or instrument.”
“He is well qualified for us; but a sinner out of Christ has no qualification for Christ but sin and misery.”
“Faith is a lost, helpless condemned sinner's casting himself on Christ for salvation.”
“Truth is to be defended by truth; but error is often, and unhappily, opposed by error under truth's name.”
“The grace of God will never want, for it can, and will furnish, defenders of it.”
“A man may too soon think that he is in Christ; and that is when it is not so indeed.”
“Never man perished with his face towards Jesus Christ.”
“I have no name to come to God but in Christ. My own name is abominable to myself.”
“No other name is given under heaven, but that of Jesus Christ, in which a sinner may safely approach unto God.”
“Three things are simply necessary unto any man's having of true religion and godliness: sound principles of divine truth known, the savor of that knowledge in the heart, and the power of that savor in a man's worship and walk.”
“If the principles of truth be not from God's word, there can be no true religion.”
“Whoever prospers in winning souls, is first convinced that it is the arm of Jehovah only can do the work.”
“This grace of God that is so dear to God, comes good cheap to us; it cost us nothing.”
“Working for life, a man naturally understands; but believing for life, he understands not.”