We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
– CS Lewis –
Christian Life
September 29, 2013
Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.
– Matthew Henry –
September 28, 2013
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
– George Whitefield –
September 27, 2013
There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.
– George Müller –
September 26, 2013
You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.
– CS Lewis –
from: Weight of Glory
September 25, 2013
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
– Augustine –
September 24, 2013
Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores – more than abundantly – what it takes away.
– Jim Elliot –
September 23, 2013
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.
– Samuel Rutherford –
September 22, 2013
Afflictions are but the shadows of God’s wings.
– George Macdonald –