You may fool your pastor, you may fool yourself, but you’ll never fool God.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Christian Life
Chief danger of our times – William Booth
The chief danger of the 20th century will be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.
– William Booth –
If sin breaks God’s heart – Unknown
If sin breaks God’s heart, what makes you think it’ll fulfill yours?
– Unknown –
We are too self-sufficient – Leonard Ravenhill
Today God is bypassing men—not because they are too ignorant, but because they are too self-sufficient. Brethren, our abilities are our handicaps, and our talents are our stumbling blocks!
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Reconciliation with God – Thomas Chalmers
Christ is able to save to the uttermost. He addeth intercession now to the atonement which he hath already made once for all. What a blessed apparatus of reconciliation with God! He who pleadeth for us at God’s right hand is omnipotent to save – and willing as He is able.
– Thomas Chalmers –
1780-1847
Walking in Christ – Thomas Boston
There can be no walking in Christ, without a true receiving of him; and there cannot be a true receiving of him without walking in him.
– Thomas Boston –
Sweetness of God’s Mercy – William Secker
Until we taste the bitterness of our own misery we will never relish the sweetness of God’s mercy. Until we see how foul our sins have made us we will never pay our tribute of praise to Christ for washing us… If you would know the heart of your sin then you must know the sins of your heart!
– William Secker –
Our Duty – Jeremiah Burroughs
Now what am I to do? What can I think now are those duties that God requires of me in the circumstances that he has now put me into? Let me exert my strength to perform the duties of my present circumstances. Others spend their thoughts on things that disturb and disquiet them, and so they grow more and more discontented. Let me spend my thoughts in thinking what my duty is, what is the duty of my present circumstances which I am in?
– Jeremiah Burroughs –
from The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
Helpless Dependence – Hudson Taylor
[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.
– Hudson Taylor –