Top 65 Bonar Quotes
#1. Bonar Law never led his Party. He was always looking over his shoulder to see if he was being followed.
Violet Bonham Carter
#2. It is not the importance of the thing, but the majesty of the Lawgiver, that is to be the standard of obedience.
~Andrew Bonar~
Jerry Bridges
#3. Dr. Bonar once said that he could tell when a Christian was growing. In proportion to his growth in grace he would elevate his Master, talk less of what he himself was doing, and become smaller and smaller in his own esteem, until, like the morning star, he faded away before the rising sun.
Dwight L. Moody
#4. The Spirit's work is not to make us holy, in order that we may be pardoned; but to show us the cross, where the pardon is to be found by the unholy; so that having found the pardon there, we may begin the life of holiness to which we are called. - Horatius Bonar
Randy Alcorn
#5. If we are growing holier, we are growing kinder.
Andrew Bonar
#6. 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
#7. In the day of prosperity, we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only One.
Horatius Bonar
#8. The Lord filled me with desire, and made me feel that I must be as much with Him alone as with souls in public.
Andrew Bonar
#9. The redeemed, through all eternity, will never taste one of the pleasures of sin; yet their happiness is complete. It would be my greatest happiness to be from this moment entirely like them.
Andrew A. Bonar
#11. Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.
Horatius Bonar
#12. We must continue in prayer if we are to get an outpouring of the Spirit. Christ says there are some things we shall not get, unless we pray and fast, yes, "prayer and fasting." We must control the flesh and abstain from whatever hinders direct fellowship with God.
Bonar Law
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. The more fully that the gospel is preached, in the grand old apostolic way, the more likely is it to accomplish the results which it did in the apostolic days.
Horatius Bonar
#18. In all unbelief there are these two things: a good opinion of one's self, and a bad opinion of God.
Horatius Bonar
#19. Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain.
Horatius Bonar
#20. Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.
Horatius Bonar
#21. The soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of another
Horatius Bonar
#22. Stripe for stripe is human law; "by His stripes we are healed" is superhuman, the result of a legislation as gracious as it is divine.
Horatius Bonar
#23. There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
Bonar Law
#24. Christian, your whole life is to be one continuous following of the Lord.
Horatius Bonar
#25. Let us be as watchful after the victory as before the battle.
Andrew Bonar
#26. One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over an amazing multiplicity of interests which leaves no margin of time and of strength for receptive and absorbing communion with God.
Bonar Law
#27. A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.
Horatius Bonar
#28. Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.
Horatius Bonar
#29. God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment and refreshing. Until I can get up to the measure of at least two hours in pure prayer every day, I shall not be contented. Meditation and reading besides.
Bonar Law
#30. Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!
Horatius Bonar
#31. We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.
Horatius Bonar
#32. The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.
Horatius Bonar
#33. For we are not saved by believing in our own salvation, nor by believing anything whatsoever about ourselves. We are saved by what we believe about the Son of God and His righteousness. The gospel believed saves; not the believing in our own faith.
Horatius Bonar
#34. 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
#35. It must always be best to be alive to Thee, whatever the quickening instrument.
Andrew Bonar
#36. The Prince of the power of the air seems to bend all the force of his attack against the spirit of prayer.
Bonar Law
#37. Up, then, with speed, and work;
Fling ease and self away
This is no time for thee to sleep
Up, watch, and work, and pray!
Horatius Bonar
#38. God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.
Andrew Bonar
#39. 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
#40. The divine order then is first pardon, then holiness; first peace with God, and then conformity to the image of that God with whom we have been brought to be at peace.
Horatius Bonar
#42. Remember how Paul and Barnabas urged this upon the Jews of Antioch, 'persuading them to continue in the grace of God' (Acts 13:43; Gal. 5:4; Titus 2:11; 1 Peter 5:12).
Horatius Bonar
#43. I looked for the church and I found it in the world; I looked for the world and I found it in the church.
Horatius Bonar
#44. It is easier to speak about revival than to set about it.
Horatius Bonar
#46. I praise the God of grace;
I trust His truth and might;
He calls me His, I call Him mine.
My God, my joy and light
Horatius Bonar
#47. 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
#48. Awake, my soul! Why should I give hours and days any longer to the vain world, when there is such a world of misery at my very door? Lord, put thine own strength in me; confirm every good resolution; forgive my past long life of uselessness and folly.
Andrew Bonar
#49. Beyond the smiling and the weeping,
I shall be soon;
Beyond the waking and the sleeping,
Beyond the sowing and the reaping,
I shall be soon!
Love, rest, and home
Sweet hope! Lord, tarry not, but come!
Horatius Bonar
#50. If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.
Bonar Law
#51. I don't care for music, I don't care for scenery, I don't care for women ... I like bridge.
Bonar Law
#52. The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of complete forgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy. It does not say, "Go and sin no more, and I will not condemn thee." It says at once, "Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more.
Horatius Bonar
#53. Bold preaching is the only preaching that is owned of God.
Horatius Bonar
#54. 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
#55. Therefore, and Donahue was loath to admit it, the only explanation for the position of Kennedy's exit wound was that the shot had not come from the right rear but from the left rear, from a second gunman located somewhere over the President's left shoulder.
Bonar Menninger
#56. The voice from the tree did not summon them to do, but to be satisfied with what was done
Horatius Bonar
#57. We who represent the Unionist Party in England and Scotland have supported, and we mean to support to the end, the loyal minority [in Ireland]. We support them not because we are intolerant, but because their claims are just.
Bonar Law
#58. If it be good to come under the love of God once, surely it is good to keep ourselves there. And yet how reluctant we are!
Andrew Bonar
#59. The life above, when this is past,
Is the ripe fruit of life below.
Sow love, and taste its fruitage pure;
Sow peace, and reap its harvest bright;
Sow sunbeams on the rock and moor,
And find a harvest-home of light.
Horatius Bonar
#60. Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.
Bonar Law
#61. I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad; I found in Him a resting place, and he has made me glad.
Horatius Bonar
#62. Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish, plan, doubt- to Him ... He wants not merely to be on good terms with you, but to be intimate.
Horatius Bonar
#63. It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; but the knowledge of the free love of God in the gift of His only-begotten Son.
Horatius Bonar
#64. Out of His fullness we receive, and grace for grace, - like wave upon wave.
Horatius Bonar
#65. In order to grow in grace, we must be much alone. It is not in society that the soul grows most vigorously. In one single quiet hour of prayer it will often make more progress than in days of company with others. It is in the desert that the dew falls freshest and the air its purest.
Horatius Bonar
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