If we once get above our Bibles, and cease making the written Word of God sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion, and be in great danger of making a shipwreck of faith.
– George Whitefield –
Christian Life
February 22, 2015
Fear may suppress sin, though faith alone conquers and overcomes sin.
– Samuel Bolton –
from The True Bounds of Christian Freedom, 1645
February 21, 2015
When we pray relying on the Holy Spirit, He will always bring us back to this one point: we are not heard because we are in earnest, or because we need to be heard, or because we will perish if not heard; we are heard only on the ground of the Atonement of the Lord. (Hebrews 10:19)
– Oswald Chambers –
from If You Will Ask
February 20, 2015
God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the IMPOSSIBLE.
– William Booth –
February 19, 2015
The paths of wisdom are not like walks in the garden, which we make use of for diversion only, and an amusement; but like tracks in a great road, which we press forward in with care and pains, as a traveler in his journey, till we come to journey’s end.
– Matthew Henry –
from The Pleasantness of a Religious Life, 1714
February 18, 2015
Christianity especially has always thrived under persecution. For at such times it has no lukewarm professors. The Christian is then reminded that his Master’s kingdom is not of this world. When all on earth looks black, he looks up to heaven for consolation. Then he sees himself as a pilgrim and a stranger. For it is then as in the hour of death that he will examine well his foundations and cleave to the fundamentals.
But when religion is in a state of quiet and prosperity, the opposite effect tends to take place. The soldiers of the church militant will then tend to forget they are at war. Their ardor slackens and their zeal languishes. John Owen has made an apt comparison: Religion in a state of prosperity is like a colony that is long settled in a strange country. It is gradually assimilated in feature, demeanor, and language to the native inhabitants, until at length every vestige of its distinctiveness has died away.
– William Wilberforce –
from the book Real Christianity, 1797
February 17, 2015
A carnal heart thinks, I must have my wants made up or else it is impossible that I should be content. But a gracious heart says, “What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into?”
– Jeremiah Burroughs –
from The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, 1648
February 16, 2015
To love is to be vulnerable.
– CS Lewis –
February 15, 2015
Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
– John Wesley –