Christian Life

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

Be as holy as you want – AW Tozer

Every man is as holy as he really wants to be.

– AW Tozer –

I can always trust – Hudson Taylor

When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.

– Hudson Taylor –

Closer to heaven – JC Ryle

I am persuaded the more light we have, the more we see our own sinfulness: the nearer we get to heaven, the more we are clothed with humility.

– JC Ryle –

The Heart – Richard Baxter

The first and great work of a Christian is about his heart. There it is that God dwells by His Spirit, in His saints; and there it is that sin and Satan reign, in the ungodly. The great duties and the great sins are those of the heart. There is the root of good and evil: the tongue and life are but the fruits and expressions of that which dwells within.

– Richard Baxter –