We are not made holy for ourselves, but for God.
– Oswald Chambers –
from If You Will Ask
Christian Life
Delay of Repentance – Thomas Watson
By the delay of repentance, sin strengthens, and the heart hardens. The longer ice freezeth, the harder it is to be broken.
– Thomas Watson –
Dependent on God – Oswald Chambers
God comes in where my helplessness begins.
– Oswald Chambers –
Faith – Charles Kingsley
I do not want merely to possess faith; I want a faith that possesses me.
– Charles Kingsley –
1819-1875
All are equal before the Cross – Hugh Latimer
The poorest ploughman is in Christ equal with the greatest prince that is.
– Hugh Latimer –
1485-1555
The Christmas Paradox – CS Lewis
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
– CS Lewis –
Lord delivers from all – Henry Smith
The lawyer can deliver his client but from strife, the physician can deliver his patient but from sickness, the master can deliver his servant but from bondage, but the Lord delivers us from all.
– Henry Smith –
1560-1591
Devotion to Christ – Oswald Chambers
Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
– Oswald Chambers –
Affliction brings sweet solace – Ichabod Spencer
Some of our sweetest solaces never could have been known but for the afflictions which bring them. What tender friendships gather around us when we are sick! What hearts beat for us and sympathize with us, and would, if they could, take themselves the pain that racks us! We should never know what tenderness and pity and kindness there is in the world, if our trials did not bring them out. Many of our calamities attach us more to our fellow-men, and make us think better of the world than we did before.
– Ichabod Spencer –