Children take more notice of what their parents do, than what they say. Actions speak louder than words.
– William Tiptaft
Children | Examples
How awful to die out of Christ! How blessed to die in Christ!
– William Tiptaft
Death
If you had a thousand crowns you should put them all on the head of Christ! And if you had a thousand tongues they should all sing his praise, for he is worthy!”
– William Tiptaft
Jesus | Praise
I have no stone to cast at the vilest of the vile. It is all of grace that I am made to differ!
– William Tiptaft
Grace
If rich people only knew when they died–how their relations would scramble for their money, the worms for their bodies, and the devils for their souls–they would not be so anxious to save money!
– William Tiptaft
Money
Show me a man’s books and show me a man’s companions–and I will tell you what sort of a man he is.
– William Tiptaft
Books | Friendship
O Lord, keep our hearts, keep our eyes, keep our feet, and keep our tongues.
– William Tiptaft
Purity | Holiness
Has your religion cost you anything? If it has cost you nothing, it is worth nothing.
– William Tiptaft
Religion
O what a narrow way is that which leads to life!
– William Tiptaft
Salvation
Better to live in a hovel with a grain of grace, than to live in a palace without it; for what would the palace avail you in a thousand years?
– William Tiptaft
Grace | Wealth
Fit or not fit–we must all die, and we know not how soon. As death leaves us, the judgment must find us.
– William Tiptaft
Death | Justice
Six feet by two-and-a-half is all the ground that the richest man in England will shortly occupy.
– William Tiptaft
Death
Make us more dead to the world and separate in spirit from it.
– William Tiptaft
Godliness
Sin is of a defiling nature. You cannot touch pitch and not be defiled.
– William Tiptaft
Sin
If not washed in Christ’s blood and clothed in his righteousness, no heaven for you, no heaven for me.
– William Tiptaft
Hell
Is Christ the one thing needful? Are you willing to pluck out right-eye sins, and cut off right-hand sins?
– William Tiptaft
Brokenness
Deliver us from everything that may entangle our affections and harden our hearts.
– William Tiptaft
Temptation
Sinning will stop praying; or praying will stop sinning.
– William Tiptaft
Sin | Prayer
If you are contented with a sound creed and a little morality in your lives, you are in an awful state. I would not like to die in your state for a thousand worlds.
– William Tiptaft
Apathy
I used to try to reconcile creature comforts and spiritual consolations. We cannot hold the world in one hand and Christ in the other. We cannot serve God and mammon.
– William Tiptaft
Worldliness
Dead fish go with the stream, living ones against it.
– William Tiptaft
Perseverance
Have you ever experienced the new birth? If not, dying in your present state–to hell you must go.
– William Tiptaft
Conversion
If the way to heaven is so narrow, and so few find it, what will become of those who never seek it?
– William Tiptaft
Heaven
Grant Lord that we may be made right in doctrine, right in experience, and right in practice.
– William Tiptaft
Holiness
Look upon those who mourn in Zion–put their tears into your bottle–listen to their sighs and groans.
– William Tiptaft
Mercy
Grant that we may not sin cheaply.
– William Tiptaft
Sin
What a mercy to be made right in doctrine, right in experience, and right in practice!
– William Tiptaft
Holiness
No cross, no crown!
– William Tiptaft
The Cross
If this world with its fading pleasures is so much admired, what must heaven be, which God praises?
– William Tiptaft
Heaven
If you have one grain of grace, you must die to know how rich you are.
– William Tiptaft
Death
Lord, teach us more what we are by nature, and what we are by grace.
– William Tiptaft
Humility
Grant that we may hold the world with a loose hand.
– William Tiptaft
Contentment
We need restraining grace, as well as saving grace.
– William Tiptaft
Grace
If I love money more than Christ, woe is me!
– William Tiptaft
Money
When the Lord finds his rod, his people find their knees.
– William Tiptaft
Prayer
Have you ever esteemed it a mercy that you are out of hell?
– William Tiptaft
Mercy | Hell
Are you ready to shake hands with death?
– William Tiptaft
Death
We come into the world crying, we go through it complaining, and go out of it groaning!
– William Tiptaft
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Life
What sorrow, troubles, and afflictions attend all the followers of the Lamb!
– William Tiptaft
Affliction
If a man preaches free will how pleased men will be; but if he preaches free grace how offended they are. It is the truth which gives offence.
– William Tiptaft
Truth
If you were to go about telling people that you had an inheritance worth a million worlds, and yet were out of temper for a trifle–they would not believe you.
– William Tiptaft
Wealth
Have you ever stood on the same plot of ground with the publican, crying–God be merciful to me a sinner?
– William Tiptaft
Mercy | Repentance
How many who died last century are in hell–who never committed half the sins some of you have!
– William Tiptaft
Death | Sin
The rougher the file–the less the rust.
– William Tiptaft
Perseverance
Look upon the unworthy worm before you. Let him be as your mouth in separating the precious from the vile. Grant that he may rightly divide the word of truth and rightly divide the hearers. Grant that he may exalt the Savior and lay the sinner low.
– William Tiptaft
Humility
We are not going to jump out of Delilah’s lap into Abraham’s bosom.
– William Tiptaft
Sin
If I preach to please men, I am not the servant of Christ; and woe unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
– William Tiptaft
Preaching
Real religion is to be severed from the world, to be married to Christ, and to bring forth fruit unto God.
– William Tiptaft
Service
Take heed and beware of covetousness. The Lord saw the need of doubly warning against that besetting sin.
– William Tiptaft
Envy