Augustus Toplady famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.
-- Augustus Toplady

#Grace #Debtors #Beggar
A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul.
-- Augustus Toplady

#Men #Thinking #Soul
Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee.
-- Augustus Toplady

#Rocks #Age #Thee
Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing abroad and giving to the poor'; whereby he will both soften the pilgrimage of his fellow travelers, and speed his own way the faster.
-- Augustus Toplady

#Christian #Race #Giving
Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling
-- Augustus Toplady

#Easter #Hands #Crosses
To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.
-- Augustus Toplady

#Church #Going To Church #Believer
When Christ entered into Jerusalem the people spread garments in the way: when He enters into our hearts, we pull off our own righteousness, and not only lay it under Christ's feet but even trample upon it ourselves.
-- Augustus Toplady

#Heart #Feet #People
That opinion that personal holiness is unnecessary to final glorification is in direct opposition to every dictate of reason; to every declaration of Scripture.
-- Augustus Toplady

#Holiness #Scripture #Finals
I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises.
-- Augustus Toplady

#Prayer #Heaven #Soul
The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.
-- Augustus Toplady

#Men #Hands #Judgment
Grace alone makes the elect gracious; grace alone keeps them gracious; and the same grace alone will render them everlastingly glorious in the heaven of heavens.
-- Augustus Toplady

#Heaven #Grace #Gracious
Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.
-- Augustus Toplady

#Holiness #Repentance #Eternal Life
Whom should we love, if not Him who loved us, and gave himself for us?
-- Augustus Toplady

#Should
Not the labors of my hands Can fulfill thy Law's demands: Could my zeal no respite know, Could my tears forever flow, All for Sin could not atone: Thou must save, and Thou alone!
-- Augustus Toplady

#Hands #Law #Forever
The church of the elect, which is partly militant on earth, and partly triumphant in heaven, resembles a city built on both sides of a river. There is but the stream of death between grace and glory. Death, to God's people, is but a ferry-boat.
-- Augustus Toplady

#Cities #Rivers #People

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