The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ. What he is or is not no longer concerns him. He believes that he has been crucified with Christ and he is not willing either to praise or deprecate such a man.
– AW Tozer –
Denying ourselves and taking up our cross isn’t a little side issue—it is absolutely necessary to becoming or continuing to become a disciple of Jesus.
– John Wesley –
Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
– William Gurnall –
If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.
– Oswald Chambers –
Having the reality of God’s presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.
– Oswald Chambers –
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.
– AW Pink –
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
– John Owen –
God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.
– Thomas Watson –