Christian Life

Don’t Draw Back Before The Sacrifice – François Colliard

If you could only know what one feels on finding oneself … where the least ray of the Gospel has not penetrated! If those friends who blame … could see from afar what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that those redeemed by Christ should be so backward in devotion and know so little of the spirit of self-sacrifice. They would be ashamed of the hesitations that hinder us. … We must remember that it was not by interceding for the world in glory that Jesus saved it. He gave Himself. Our prayers for the evangelization of the world are but a bitter irony so long as we only give of our superfluity, and draw back before the sacrifice of ourselves.

– François Colliard –
from On the Threshold of Central Africa

True Religion – Henry Scougal

True religion is a union of the soul with God, a real participation of the Divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or, in the apostle’s phrase, “it is Christ formed within us.”

– Henry Scougal –
from The Life of God in the Soul of Man

Question for Those Who Claim to be Christ – Martin Lloyd Jones

The most vital question to ask about all who claim to be Christ is this: Have they a soul thirst for God? Do they long for this? Is there something about them that tells you that they are always waiting for His next manifestation of Himself? Is their life centered on Him? Can they say with Paul that they forget everything in the past? Do they press forward more and more that they might know Him and that the knowledge might increase, until eventually beyond death and the grave they may bask eternally in ‘the sunshine of His face?’ That I might know Him!

– Martin Lloyd Jones –

The Spirit That Convinces – Ralph Venning

The same Spirit that convinces of sin convinces of righteousness, and of judgment and victory, too. (John 16:8)

– Ralph Venning –
from Learning in Christ’s School,1675

Learning About God Through Eternity – DL Moody

There are many things which were unclear and mysterious five years ago. Since then I have understood them more clearly. I expect to be finding out something new about God throughout eternity.

– DL Moody –
from The Way to God

Young Men, Work for the Lord – Charles Spurgeon

 

Young men, work for the Lord while you can. It would greatly embitter my season of painful retirement if I could accuse myself with having wasted the time of my health and strength. When I can work, I pack a mass into small compass because I am so painfully aware that days and weeks may come wherein I cannot work.

– Charles Spurgeon –
from Letters of Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Reason Why Men Damn Their Souls to Get the World – Thomas Brooks

The main reason why men dote upon the world, and damn their souls to get the world, is, because they are not acquainted with a greater glory. Men ate acorns, till they were acquainted with the use of wheat. Ah, were men more acquainted with what union and communion with God means, what it is to have ‘a new name, and a new stone, that none knows but he that hath it’ (Rev. 2:17); did they but taste more of heaven, and live more in heaven, and had more glorious hopes of going to heaven, ah, how easily would they have the moon under their feet.

– Thomas Brooks –
from Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices, 1652