It is to the dead that the life comes; it is to the unloveable that the love comes; it is to the lost that the salvation comes. Horatius Bonar More Quotes by Horatius Bonar More Quotes From Horatius Bonar In religion faith does not spring out of feeling, but feeling out of faith. The less we feel the more we should trust. We cannot feel right till we have believed. Horatius Bonar doe feelings spring Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me. Horatius Bonar christian faith god Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt. Horatius Bonar guilt evil men Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation. Horatius Bonar recognition absence want A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord. Horatius Bonar ministry fruit peaceful Faith does not come to Calvary to do anything. It comes to see the glorious spectacle of all things done, and to accept this completion without a misgiving as to its efficacy. It listens to the It is finished! of the Sin-bearer, and says, Amen. Horatius Bonar sin done doe Yet, after all, faith is not our righteousness. It is accounted to us in order to righteousness (Rom 4:5, GREEK), but not as righteousness; for in that case it would be a work like any other doing of man, and as such would be incompatible with the righteousness of the Son of God; the righteousness which is by faith. Faith connects us with the righteousness, and is therefore totally distinct from it. To confound the one with the other is to subvert the whole gospel of the grace of God. Our act of faith must ever be a separate thing from that which we believe. Horatius Bonar men believe son Christian, your whole life is to be one continuous following of the Lord. Horatius Bonar lord christian life-is All unbelief is the belief of a lie. Horatius Bonar unbelief belief lying I heard the voice of Jesus say Horatius Bonar voice heard jesus ...the cross saves completely, or not at all. Our faith does not divide the work of salvation between itself and the cross. It is the acknowledgment that the cross alone saves, and that it saves alone. Faith adds nothing to the cross, nor to its healing virtue. Horatius Bonar healing doe add A believing man will be a zealous man. Faith makes a man zealous. Faith shows itself by zeal. Not by zeal for a party or a system or an opinion; but by zeal for Christ - zeal for His church - zeal for the carrying on of His work on earth. Horatius Bonar party men believe Bold preaching is the only preaching that is owned of God. Horatius Bonar preaching How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain. Horatius Bonar sorrow shining promise Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee! Horatius Bonar selfishness each-day self Do not heed the jar of man's warring opinions. Let God be true and every man a liar. The Bible is the Bible still. If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God. You have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things. Horatius Bonar letting-go liars men Out of His fulness we receive, and grace for grace, — like wave upon wave. Horatius Bonar fullness wave grace Up, then, with speed, and work; Horatius Bonar self sleep watches In all unbelief there are these two things: a good opinion of one's self, and a bad opinion of God. Horatius Bonar opinion self two Beyond the smiling and the weeping, Horatius Bonar home sleep sweet
