Quotes from AW Pink

Peter exercised a zeal which was unregulated by knowledge.

How can we who are so weak in ourselves, so inferior in power to the enemies confronting us, bear up under our trials which are so numerous, so protracted, so crushing? We could not, and therefore Divine grace has provided for us an all-sufficient Helper. Without His aid we had long since succumbed, mastered by our trials. Hope looks forward to the Glory to come; in the weary interval of waiting, the Spirit supports our poor hearts and keeps grace alive within us.

Nothing in all the vast universe can come to pass otherwise than God has eternally purposed. Here is a foundation of faith. Here is a resting place for the intellect. Here is an anchor for the soul, both sure and steadfast. It is not blind fate, unbridled evil, man or Devil, but the Lord Almighty who is ruling the world, ruling it according to His own good pleasure and for His own eternal glory.

Though poor in this world's goods, though grieving the loss of loved ones, though suffering pain of body, though harassed by sin and Satan, though hated and persecuted by worldlings, whatever be the case and lot of the Christian, it is both his privilege and duty to rejoice in the Lord.

Man in his usual perversity turns the footstool into a throne from whence he would feign direct the Almighty as to what He ought to do, giving the onlooker the impression that if God had half the compassion that those who pray (?) have, all would quickly be right.

to repudiate the election of God is to repudiate the God of election.

The severest self-denials and the most lavish gifts are of no value in God's esteem unless they are prompted by love.

Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.

Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.

True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God's majesty.