Henry Allen Ironside Quotes

#1. 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.

Henry Allen Ironside

#2. Time is given us to use in view of eternity.

Henry Allen Ironside

#3. It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.

Henry Allen Ironside

#4. It is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know.

Henry Allen Ironside

#5. 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.

Henry Allen Ironside

#6. To tell a man who has no realization that he is lost, that he may be saved by faith in Christ, means nothing to him, however true and blessed the fact is in itself.

Henry Allen Ironside

#7. Christianity is Christ!

Henry Allen Ironside

#8. 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.

Henry Allen Ironside

#9. If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much.

Henry Allen Ironside

#10. Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.

Henry Allen Ironside

#11. Real worship is that of the heart.

Henry Allen Ironside

#12. No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity.

Henry Allen Ironside

#13. No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ.

Henry Allen Ironside

#14. Faith is to rest, not in the best of God's servants, but in His unchanging Word.

Henry Allen Ironside

#15. We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.

Henry Allen Ironside

#16. Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ.

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#17. 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.

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#18. All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.

Henry Allen Ironside

#19. Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question, 'Adam, where art thou?' on to the incarnation, God has been speaking to man.

Henry Allen Ironside