Ironside Quotes & Sayings

When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety ... He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him. He settled for everything, and then He cried, 'It is finished.' And on the basis of that finished work, God can freely forgive, and justify completely, every poor sinner who trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ. — Henry Allen Ironside

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things. — Michael Ironside

The Apostle Peter preaching on the day of Pentecost of the risen Savior, says, "God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ." And He speaks of Him as the anointed One, exalted at God's right hand. The Gospel is the Gospel of the Risen Christ. There would be no Gospel for sinners if Christ had not been raised. So the apostle says, "If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins" — Henry Allen Ironside

If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer. — Michael Ironside

No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ. — Henry Allen Ironside

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. — Henry Allen Ironside

It is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know. — Henry Allen Ironside

I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten only once, in the end. — Michael Ironside

Death is a huge cliff and when you are about to be thrown off it, like an Aztec sacrifice, other problems on the valley floor look very small, but once on the ground with the rest of the world they become again of dominating proportions. — Elizabeth Ironside

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

It's kind of a strange world when you can trust a game format or platform more than the network news. — Michael Ironside

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die. — Michael Ironside

Figuring things out for yourself is practically the only freedom anyone really has nowadays. Use that freedom. — Michael Ironside

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing. — Michael Ironside

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom. — Michael Ironside

One of the young production assistants (on 'Terminator: Salvation') stepped over to my chair and said, 'Mr. Ironside, are you any relation to the Ironside who was in 'Top Gun'?' And I said, 'I am, yes.' And she grinned and said, 'I knew it! Talent must run in your family!' And she walked away. And all of the producers and directors kind of looked at me uncertainly, and I said, 'What are you guys so uncomfortable for? That's an incredible compliment. I do look like the father of that guy, for Christ's sake!' — Michael Ironside

The discovery of her life was that she herself didn't actually need money, apart from a little cash for those relationships with taxi drivers and officials of the Great Western Railway which can only be expressed financially. — Elizabeth Ironside

People are stumbling over the simplest things. Take, for instance, that word believeth. You would think that was plain enough for anybody, but all my life I have heard people say, 'I have always believed, and yet I am not saved.' It does not say, 'Whosoever believeth the Bible, or creeds, or even the gospel story,' but it does say, 'Whosoever believeth in him.' What is it to believe in Him? It means to put your soul's confidence in Him, to trust in Him, God's blessed Son. — Henry Allen Ironside

All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation. — Henry Allen Ironside

I want to make smart television. — Michael Ironside

I'm never going to be the lead actor guy. I'm real quiet and real happy and real fortunate to keep working. It's what I do. It's like the circus. I ran away and joined it a long time ago. — Michael Ironside

To the lover of the Lord Jesus Christ there can be nothing legal about baptism. It is simply the glad expression of a grateful heart recognizing its identity with Christ in death, burial, and resurrection. Many of us look back to the moment when we were thus baptized as one of the most precious experiences we have ever known. — Henry Allen Ironside

Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given. — Elizabeth Ironside

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

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since. — Michael Ironside

The very first evidence of awakening grace is dissatisfaction with one's self and self-effort and a longing for deliverance from chains of sin that have bound the soul. To own frankly that I am lost and guilty is the prelude to life and peace. It is not a question of a certain depth of grief and sorrow, but simply the recognition and acknowledgment of need that lead one to turn to Christ for refuge. None can perish who put their trust in Him. His grace superabounds above all our sin, and His expiatory work on the cross is so infinitely precious to God that it fully meets all our uncleanness and guilt. — H. A Ironside

Faith is to rest, not in the best of God's servants, but in His unchanging Word. — Henry Allen Ironside

No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity. — Henry Allen Ironside

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

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

If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much. — Henry Allen Ironside

Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions. — Henry Allen Ironside

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction. — Henry Allen Ironside

one who gives himself/herself preeminently to the Word, neglecting prayer, will become heady and doctrinal-likely to quarrel about "points", and occupied with theoretical Christianity to the hurt of his soul and irritation of his brethren. On the other hand, one who gives himself/herself much prayer while neglecting the Word is likely to become introspective, mystical, and sometimes fanatical. But he/she who reads the Word of God reverently and humbling seeking to know the will of God, and then gives himself/herself to prayer, confessing and judging what the scriptures have condemned in his ways and words, and thoughts, will have his/her soul drawn out in worship also, and thus grow both in grace and in knowledge, becoming a well rounded follower of Christ. Apart from a knowledge of the Word, prayer will lack exceedingly in intelligence ; for the objective must never precede the subjective, and must not be divorced there from — H. A Ironside

I'm totally anonymous until I open my bloody mouth and people recognize the voice. — Michael Ironside

I basically was a precocious little kid. — Michael Ironside

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

Christianity is Christ! — Henry Allen Ironside

Time is given us to use in view of eternity. — Henry Allen Ironside

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

People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me. — Michael Ironside

God-sent ministry, heeded and bowed to, leads to enlargement and blessing; but the Spirit's testimony rejected increases the guilt of him who hardens himself against it, and makes his condition far worse than before. It is ever the case that light refused makes the darkness all the deeper. Hence the need of a tender conscience, quick to respond to every word from God. — Henry Allen Ironside

I would sum up the German character best by saying that they are the best of losers and the worst of winners. — Edmund Ironside

The late Dr. Harry Ironside once said, "Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions." To be sure, we must deplore wickedness, evil, and wrongdoing, but our commendable intolerance of sin too often develops into a deplorable intolerance of sinners. Jesus hates sin but loves the sinner. — Billy Graham

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks. — Holly Black

We are not preaching the Gospel of a dead Christ, but of a living Christ who sits exalted at the Father's right hand, and is living to save all who put their trust in Him. That is why those of us who really know the Gospel never have any crucifixes around our churches or in our homes. The crucifix represents a dead Christ hanging languid on a cross of shame. But we are not pointing men to a dead Christ; we are preaching a living Christ. He lives exalted at God's right hand, and He "saves to the uttermost all who come to God by Him." — Henry Allen Ironside

People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success. — Michael Ironside

Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ. — Henry Allen Ironside

Real worship is that of the heart. — Henry Allen Ironside

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor. — Michael Ironside

The flame of testimony burns brightly when fed with the oil of grace. — H. A Ironside

Godliness has 'promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.' But the only way one can enter into godliness is by turning to God as a repentant sinner and receiving the Saviour He has provided in the Gospel. Therefore the crying need of our degenerate times is for a revival of true old-fashioned, Christ- centered, Bible preaching that will call upon all men everywhere to repent in view of that coming day when God will judge the world in righteousness by His Risen Son. — Henry Allen Ironside