You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.
– Charles Spurgeon –
You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.
– Charles Spurgeon –
A man should be like tea; his real strength [character] appearing when he gets in hot water.
– Unknown –
May our Lord’s sweet hand square us and hammer us, and strike off all kinds of pride, self-love, world-worship, and infidelity, so that He can make us stones and pillars in His Father’s house.
– Samuel Rutherford –
Lived 1600-1661
Keep clear of a man who does not value his own character.
– Unknown –
A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.
– AW Tozer –
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
– Oswald Chambers –
You can’t live wrong and pray right.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.
There is a common worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough. This cheap Christianity … offends nobody, requires no sacrifice, costs nothing, and is worth nothing!
– JC Ryle –