Christian Life

What a holy man is – AW Tozer

The holy man is not one who cannot sin. A holy man is one who will not sin.

– AW Tozer –

God will prune us – Elisabeth Elliot

Every now and then God prunes us. He thwarts our purposes.

– Elisabeth Elliot –

Affliction quickens prayer – Thomas Watson

Affliction quickens the spirit of prayer. Jonah was asleep in the ship—but at prayer in the whale’s belly! Perhaps in a time of health and prosperity we pray in a cold and formal manner—we put no coals to the incense; we scarcely minded our own prayers, and how should God mind them?Then God sends some cross or other affliction to make us take hold of Him. Now their prayers pierced the heavens! In times of trouble, we pray earnestly and fervently.

– Thomas Watson –

Kneeling and Standing – Leonard Ravenhill

A man who kneels before God will stand before men.

– Leonard Ravenhill –

Praying Strenuously – Oswald Chambers

To pray strenuously needs careful cultivation.

– Oswald Chambers –

I’m against sin – Billy Sunday

Listen, I’m against sin. I’ll kick it as long as I’ve got a foot, I’ll fight it as long as I’ve got a fist, I’ll butt it as long as I’ve got a head, and I’ll bite it as long as I’ve got a tooth. And when I’m old, fistless, footless, and toothless, I’ll gum it till I go home to glory and it goes home to perdition.

– Billy Sunday –

Set your mind on heaven – DL Moody

If people would but read their Bibles more, and study what there is to be found there about heaven, they would not be as worldly-minded as they are. They would not have their hearts set upon things down here, but would seek the imperishable things above.

– DL Moody –
from Heaven, page 10