49 William Tiptaft Quotes

Children take more notice of what their parents do, than what they say. Actions speak louder than words.

How awful to die out of Christ! How blessed to die in Christ!

If you had a thousand crowns you should put them all on the head of Christ! And if you had a thousand tongues they should all sing his praise, for he is worthy!"

I have no stone to cast at the vilest of the vile. It is all of grace that I am made to differ!

If rich people only knew when they died--how their relations would scramble for their money, the worms for their bodies, and the devils for their souls--they would not be so anxious to save money!

Show me a man's books and show me a man's companions--and I will tell you what sort of a man he is.

O what a narrow way is that which leads to life!

O Lord, keep our hearts, keep our eyes, keep our feet, and keep our tongues.

Has your religion cost you anything? If it has cost you nothing, it is worth nothing.

Better to live in a hovel with a grain of grace, than to live in a palace without it; for what would the palace avail you in a thousand years?

If not washed in Christ's blood and clothed in his righteousness, no heaven for you, no heaven for me.

Look upon those who mourn in Zion--put their tears into your bottle--listen to their sighs and groans.

Fit or not fit--we must all die, and we know not how soon. As death leaves us, the judgment must find us.

Six feet by two-and-a-half is all the ground that the richest man in England will shortly occupy.

Make us more dead to the world and separate in spirit from it.

Sin is of a defiling nature. You cannot touch pitch and not be defiled.

Is Christ the one thing needful? Are you willing to pluck out right-eye sins, and cut off right-hand sins?

Deliver us from everything that may entangle our affections and harden our hearts.

Sinning will stop praying; or praying will stop sinning.

If you are contented with a sound creed and a little morality in your lives, you are in an awful state. I would not like to die in your state for a thousand worlds.

I used to try to reconcile creature comforts and spiritual consolations. We cannot hold the world in one hand and Christ in the other. We cannot serve God and mammon.

Dead fish go with the stream, living ones against it.

Have you ever experienced the new birth? If not, dying in your present state--to hell you must go.

If the way to heaven is so narrow, and so few find it, what will become of those who never seek it?

Grant Lord that we may be made right in doctrine, right in experience, and right in practice.

Grant that we may not sin cheaply.

What a mercy to be made right in doctrine, right in experience, and right in practice!

No cross, no crown!

If this world with its fading pleasures is so much admired, what must heaven be, which God praises?

If you have one grain of grace, you must die to know how rich you are.

Lord, teach us more what we are by nature, and what we are by grace.

Grant that we may hold the world with a loose hand.

We need restraining grace, as well as saving grace.

If I love money more than Christ, woe is me!

When the Lord finds his rod, his people find their knees.

Have you ever esteemed it a mercy that you are out of hell?

Are you ready to shake hands with death?

We come into the world crying, we go through it complaining, and go out of it groaning!

What sorrow, troubles, and afflictions attend all the followers of the Lamb!

If a man preaches free will how pleased men will be; but if he preaches free grace how offended they are. It is the truth which gives offence.

If you were to go about telling people that you had an inheritance worth a million worlds, and yet were out of temper for a trifle--they would not believe you.

Have you ever stood on the same plot of ground with the publican, crying--God be merciful to me a sinner?

How many who died last century are in hell--who never committed half the sins some of you have!

The rougher the file--the less the rust.

Look upon the unworthy worm before you. Let him be as your mouth in separating the precious from the vile. Grant that he may rightly divide the word of truth and rightly divide the hearers. Grant that he may exalt the Savior and lay the sinner low.

We are not going to jump out of Delilah's lap into Abraham's bosom.

If I preach to please men, I am not the servant of Christ; and woe unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

Real religion is to be severed from the world, to be married to Christ, and to bring forth fruit unto God.

Take heed and beware of covetousness. The Lord saw the need of doubly warning against that besetting sin.