There is absolutely no excuse to stay where you are at right now. If you are weak, He can make you strong. If you are timid He can make you brave. If you are a pervert, He can make you pure. If you are selfish, He can make you selfless. If you are a shepherd, He can make you a king. If you are mediocre, He can make you a Mighty One of valor.
– Eric Ludy –
from Wrestling Prayer
Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying “I am saved” is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.
– Charles Spurgeon –
There is nothing so permanent as a short-term compromise.
– Ron Bailey –
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)
Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to [godliness].
– Clement of Alexandria –
We must not think of the Church as an anonymous body, a mystical religious abstraction. We Christians are the Church and whatever we do is what the Church is doing. The matter, therefore, is for each of us a personal one. Any forward step in the Church must begin with the individual.
– AW Tozer –
Our lives are to be indisputable evidence of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
– Carter Conlon –
To make my weak heart strong and brave,
Send the fire.
To live a dying world to save, send the fire.
Oh, see me on Thy altar lay
My life, my all, this very day;
To crown the offering now, I pray:
Send the fire!
– F. Tucker-Booth –
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 –