Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of personal godliness has fallen sadly into the background.
– JC Ryle –
Christian Life
January 26, 2015
How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.
– CT Studd –
January 25, 2015
Christ was in an agony at prayer (Luke 22: 44). Many when they pray are rather in a lethargy, than in an agony. When they are about the world they are all fire; when they are at prayer, they are all ice.
– Thomas Watson –
January 24, 2015
That, which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.
– John Flavel –
January 23, 2015
A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
January 22, 2015
The devil’s war is better than the devil’s peace.
– Samuel Rutherford –
January 21, 2015
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
– AW Tozer –
January 20, 2015
A life spent in the service of God and in communion with him, is the most pleasant life that any one can live in the world.
– Matthew Henry –
January 19, 2015
He that is down needs fear no fall; He that is low, no pride.
– John Bunyan –