Union with Christ

“What a support to our faith is this, that God the Father, the party offended by our sins, is so well pleased with the work of redemption! And what a comfort is this, that, seeing God's love rests on Christ, as well pleased in him, we may gather that he is as well pleased with us, if we be in Christ! For his love rests in a whole Christ, in Christ mystical, as well as Christ natural, because he loves him and us with one love. Let us, therefore, embrace Christ, and in him God's love, and build our faith safely on such a Saviour that is furnished with so high a commission. ~ The Bruised Reed by Richard Sibbes”

“If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without.”

“In God's sight there are two men – Adam and Jesus Christ – and these two men have all other men hanging at their girdle strings.”

“The law is a dead letter; yea, and so is the gospel too without Christ. He is 'that Spirit' which gives life unto all the Scriptures.”

“His fulness of the Spirit is as the fulness of the fountain; ours is but as the fulness of the cistern. He hath grace in the spring; we have it but in the conduit.”

“What is the scope of the whole Scriptures but Christ?”

“Whensoever we would go down into our own hearts, and take a view of our graces, let us be sure first to look wholly out of ourselves unto Christ, as our justification, and to close with him immediately.”

“That which I have here endeavoured is to set forth to all sorts of believers, whether they have assurance or not, Christ as he is the object of our faith as justifying, and as the cause of justification to us.”

“We are now come to the banquet, and Christ is the founder of it; nay, he is the Feast itself. He is the Author of it, and he it is that we feed upon.”

“There is in Christ enough to satisfy all the hungry souls in the world, he himself being present at this heavenly banquet.”

“If he bring us to heaven through a valley of tears, it is no matter, for in heaven all tears shall be wiped from our eyes.”

“The whole world is not a theater large enough to display the glory of Christ upon, or unfold the one half of the unsearchable riches which lie hidden in Him.”

“A drop of saving grace is better than a sea of spiritual gifts.”

“Seeking of Christ is the soul's duty; but Christ manifesting himself is the soul's comfort.”

“Many times Christ hath his face towards us, when we have our backs upon him; and therefore if thou wouldst find Christ, turn thyself to him.”

“How shall a man know if he has a true and special interest in Christ, and whether he may lay claim justly to God's favour and salvation?”