A revival always includes conviction of sin on the part of the church. … Backslidden Christians will be brought to repentance. A revival of God is nothing else than a a new beginning of obedience to God.
– Charles Finney –
Christian Life
May 4, 2015
Sinned as we have as a nation, yet to our sin we have added pride in our sinning. The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the church has lost her power to weep over it.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
May 3, 2015
There can be no revival apart from the Holy Ghost; He is the author of every Heaven-sent movement.
– James Alexander Stewart –
May 2, 2015
You need the blood of Jesus as much now as at first. You never can stand before God in yourself. You must go again and again to be washed. Even on your dying bed, you must hide under Jehovah, our righteousness. You must also lean on Jesus. He alone can overcome the sin in you. Draw nearer and nearer to Him every day.
– Robert Murray McCheyne –
May 1, 2015
It becomes all professing Christians to be much on their guard against flattery. We mistake greatly if we suppose that persecution and hard usage are the only weapons in Satan’s armory. That crafty foe has other engines for doing us mischief, which he knows well who to work. He knows how to poison souls by the world’s seductive kindness, when he cannot frighten them by the fiery dart and the sword. Let us not be ignorant of his devices. By peace he destroys many.
– JC Ryle –
from the book Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, 1856
April 30, 2015
Jesus Christ is infinitely bigger than any of my experiences, but if in my experiences I am coming to know Him better, then the expression will come out in the life, and its sign is the fruit of the Spirit – “love, joy, peace…” The fruit of the Spirit is the exact expression of the disposition of Jesus.
– Oswald Chambers –
April 29, 2015
There is no way to avoid a national desolation but by a national reformation.
– Edmund Calamy –
August 17, 1662
April 28, 2015
It is said of Caesar, that ‘he had greater care of his books than of his royal robes,’ for swimming through the waters to escape his enemies, he carried his books in his hand above the waters, but lost his robes. Ah, what are Caesar’s books to God’s books?
– Thomas Brooks –
from the book Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices, 1652
April 27, 2015
It will not profit us to read about Christ, if we are not joined to Him by living faith. Once more then let us test our religion be this question; “What think we of Christ?”
– JC Ryle –
from the book Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, 1856