Christian Life

Prayer and holiness are connected – John Wesley

The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

– John Wesley –

Gifts are improved in us by prayer and study, but the benefits of those gifts are shared among us by love and unity.

– John Flavel –
1627-1691

If you would have the divine life of the Spirit within you grow strong in every part of your nature, let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.

– Andrew Murray –
from The Indwelling Spirit

Standing pools gather mud, and nourish and breed venomous creatures; and so do the idle and slothful Christians.

– Thomas Brooks –
from Smooth Stones taken from Ancient Brooks

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

– CT Studd –

I have benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

– Samuel Rutherford –

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –

After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.

– AW Pink –

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

– Henry Ward Beecher –