God abhors godly speech which is not joined with a godly life.
– William Perkins –
1558–1602
taken from The Art of Prophesying … also see – Psalm 50:16, 17
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitivity to sin.
– Oswald Chambers –
Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.
– Charles Spurgeon –
If you will let God clean you up on the inside, you will not be long cleaning up the outside.
– WB Dunkum –
It is not that I want merely to be called a Christian, but actually to be one. Yes, if I prove to be one, then I can have the name.
– Ignatius of Antioch –
(35-120 AD)
Hypocrisy is folly. – It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, then to keep up the appearance of what he is not
– Richard Cecil –
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can
– Sydney Smith –
It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God – men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.
– EM Bounds –