All my requests are lost in one: “Father, Thy will be done!”
– Charles Wesley –
Christian Life
The Holier a Man Becomes – Charles Spurgeon
I believe the holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.
– Charles Spurgeon –
No Fault of Christianity – Jerome
It is no fault of Christianity if a hypocrite falls into sin.
– Jerome –
374-420 AD
Talk of God’s Goodness – Charles Spurgeon
If you abundantly talk of God’s goodness, you are sure to benefit your neighbors. Many are comforted when they hear of God’s goodness to their friends.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from Spurgeon on Praise
Don’t Mistake Remorse for Repentance – Oswald Chambers
Never mistake remorse for repentance; remorse simply puts a man in hell while he is on earth; it carries no remedial quality with it at all, nothing that betters a man.
– Oswald Chambers –
Prayer is the Natural Expression of Faith – Jonathan Edwards
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
– Jonathan Edwards –
No Hunger for God – Florence Allshorn
We religious leaders need to look very much more deeply. We can so easily have talks with people, and they can say we have helped, write us grateful letters, even stand steady for a time till the juice we have put into them runs out; but, we may have brought them no hunger for God—because that hunger is no ache in our own heart—nor brought them anywhere near to the end of self.
– Florence Allshorn –
Bring Lust to the Gospel – John Owen
Bring thy lust to the gospel, not for relief, but for further conviction of its guilt: look on him whom thou hast pierced, and be in bitterness. Say to thy soul, What have I done? What love, what mercy, what blood, what grace, have I despised and trampled on! Is this the return I make to the Father for his love, to the Son for his blood, to the Holy Ghost for his grace? Do I thus requite the Lord? Have I defiled the heart that Christ died to wash, which the blesses Spirit hath chosen to dwell in? And can I keep myself out of the dust? What can I say to the dear Lord Jesus? How shall I hold up my head with any boldness before him? Do I account communion with him of so little value that for this vile lust’s sake I have scarce left him any room in my heart? How shall I escape, if I neglect so great salvation? In the mean time, what shall I say to the Lord? Love, mercy, grace, goodness, peace, joy, consolation; I have despised them all, and esteemed them as a thing of naught, that I might harbour a lust in my heart.
– John Owen –
from The Mortification of Sin
Disturb the Present – Catherine Booth
If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
– Catherine Booth –