Self-love may lead us to prayers, but love to God excites us to praises.
– Thomas Manton –
1620-1677
Christian Life
Saved for more than heaven – Leonard Ravenhill
Without holiness, no one shall see the Lord. Jesus didn’t die to save us from hell. That’s a fringe benefit! He died to get total occupation of us. To be holy in speech … in actions … in everything.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
God enables us to obey – Oswald Chambers
If Jesus ever commanded us to do something that He was unable to equip us to accomplish, He would be a liar. And if we make our own inability a stumbling block or an excuse not to be obedient, it means that we are telling God that there is something which He has not yet taken into account.
– Oswald Chambers –
Do all from a perfect oneness – Oswald Chambers
All I do should be biased on a perfect oneness with Him, not on a self-willed determination to be godly.
– Oswald Chambers –
The work of affliction – Thomas Watson
Affliction works out sin—and works in grace.
– Thomas Watson –
The proof is in one’s life – JC Ryle
A man’s life is the best proof of a man’s opinions.
– JC Ryle –
from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, 1856
A life of prayer – Andrew Murray
A life of prayer will make a life of love to Christ, to other Christians, and to those without Christ.
– Andrew Murray –
Living for God’s glory – Oswald Chambers
We see His glory on the mountain, but we never live for His glory there.
– Oswald Chambers –
Hold on and persevere – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus and his word until the end.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –