Joseph Alleine Quotes

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

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 Hisfeet.

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. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.

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

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

Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through His grace, freely devoted to His service.

Come from your knees to the sermon, and come from the sermon to your knees

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

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.

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.

I will watch over My flock by night (Isaiah 27:3). Behold, I have appointed My ministers as your watchmen, as overseers who watch for your souls (Hebrews 13:17; Acts 20:28)

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!

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.

with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles, and practice.

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

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