If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. …We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.
– AW Tozer –
from The Pursuit of God
O Lord, explore down to the deepest springs where the Spirit maketh intercession for us, and read the prayers I cannot utter.
– Oswald Chambers –
We are to find as much bitterness in weeping for sin as ever we found sweetness in committing it. Surely David found more bitterness in repenting then he ever found comfort in Bathsheba.
– Thomas Watson –
from The Doctrine of Repentance, 1668
A frightened world needs a fearless church.
– AW Tozer –
O be not too quick to bury the church before she is dead! Stay till Christ has tried his skill before you give it up for lost.
– John Flavel –
1627-1691
There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.
– William Wilberforce –
