We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.
– Harry Ironside
Praise | Thankfulness | Discontentment
Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ.
– Harry Ironside
Christ
God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God.
– Harry Ironside
Judging | The Cross | Brokenness
Pride is a barrier to all spiritual progress.
– Harry Ironside
Pride
Jesus Christ is not a problem; He is the solution to every problem for life, for death, and for eternity.
– Harry Ironside
Jesus
Grace is the very opposite of merit… Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.
– Harry Ironside
Grace
No sacrifice should be too great for Him who gave Himself for us.
– Harry Ironside
Service | Sacrifice
You could not be saved through any effort of your own, but now that you are saved it is necessary for you to put forward every effort you can to glorify Him.
– Harry Ironside
Salvation
Christianity is not just repeating John 3:16 or Acts 16:31; it is yielding the heart and the life to Christ.
– Harry Ironside
Christianity | The Heart
The Gospel is not good advice to be obeyed, it is good news to be believed.
– Harry Ironside
Salvation | The Gospel
The greatest mistake any Christian can make is to substitute his own will for the will of God.
– Harry Ironside
Selfishness | Stubbornness
It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.
– Harry Ironside
Books | The Bible | Reading
The testimony of the lips indicates the state of the heart.
– Harry Ironside
Character | The Heart
The Christian is called out from the world. His life is not to be as the lives of those about him.
– Harry Ironside
Christians | Holiness
We need to realize that in all things our first duty and responsibility is to God Himself.
– Harry Ironside
Service | Responsibility
It is more important that God be glorified then that I accomplish certain things in the line of service.
– Harry Ironside
Service
If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much.
– Harry Ironside
Character
It is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know.
– Harry Ironside
Good and Evil | Sin
Time is given us to use in view of eternity.
– Harry Ironside
Life | Eternity | Time
If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn’t true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.
– Harry Ironside
Humility | Service
The servant is nothing, but God is everything.
– Harry Ironside
Service
Faith is to rest, not in the best of God’s servants, but in His unchanging Word.
– Harry Ironside
Faith | Scripture | Rest
Real worship is that of the heart.
– Harry Ironside
Worship | The Heart
Christianity is Christ!
– Harry Ironside
Christianity
Nothing is sadder than profession without possession.
– Harry Ironside
Hypocrisy
No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ.
– Harry Ironside
Obedience
Truth alone will not preserve if there be not corresponding exercise as to living in its power, and being controlled thereby.
– Harry Ironside
Truth
Great truths that are stumbling blocks to the natural man are nevertheless the very foundations upon which the confidence of the spiritual man is built.
– Harry Ironside
Truth
No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity.
– Harry Ironside
Christianity