Remember that Christ Himself is better than any of His blessings; better than the power, or the victory, or the service that He grants. … He is God’s best: we may have Christ; yielding to Him in such completeness and abandonment of self that it is no longer we that live, but Christ that liveth in us. Will you thus take Him?
– Charles G. Trumbull –
from Victory in Christ
I want to see something that God builds. I want to find some people so hungry for God that every night they want to pray; (and find) where there’s intercession! We’re not going to move America any other way … We’ve tried every scheme and any every fancy thing and (we) try and work something up, but what we need some body to come down. Some person! Not a new theology, a person! Just as the Holy Ghost invaded the virgin womb and created Christ there, I need the Holy Ghost to form Christ in me. If I don’t, I’m not a Christian! Christ in you the hope of glory. That’s what it’s all about.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.
– Charles Spurgeon –
A man should be like tea; his real strength [character] appearing when he gets in hot water.
– Unknown –
May our Lord’s sweet hand square us and hammer us, and strike off all kinds of pride, self-love, world-worship, and infidelity, so that He can make us stones and pillars in His Father’s house.
– Samuel Rutherford –
Lived 1600-1661
Keep clear of a man who does not value his own character.
– Unknown –
Turn to God from idols. For the sword of His wrath that had been aimed at you has been sheathed into the heart of His Son. And the arrows of His anger that had been put against your breast were loosed into the Lord Jesus Christ. Because He has died for you, you were forgiven.
– Paris Reidhead –
A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.
– AW Tozer –
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
– Oswald Chambers –