A man, and a Christian man too, may keep up all the outward appearances of religion; but if he has guilt on his conscience, or allows sin in his soul, he may frequent the Lord’s house but it will be without profit; he may worship but it will be without peace.
– James Thomas Holloway –
from The Analogy of Faith
God’s plan with most of us appears to be a design to make us flexible, twisting us this way and that, now giving, now taking; but always at work for and in us.
– Elizabeth Prentiss –
from More Love to Thee
What will your university education amount to, and all your wealth and honors if you go down through lust and passion and covetousness, and lose your soul at last?
– DL Moody –
The god of the world is riches, pleasure, and pride, wherewith it abuses all the creatures and gifts of God.
– Martin Luther –
It is true that all God requires of us we lack; but it is also true that all we need He supplies.
– Evan Hopkins –
Bread for today is bread enough.
– EM Bounds –
from The Necessity of Prayer
All of my need He freely supplieth,
Day after day His goodness I prove;
Mercies unfailing, new every morning,
Tell me of God’s unchanging love.
– Thomas Chisholm –
from the hymn He Supplieth All of My Need
Unclaimed promises are like uncashed checks; they will keep us from bankruptcy, but not from want.
– Frances Ridley Havergal –
from Kept for the Master’s Use (1879)
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.
– CS Lewis –
from The Problem of Pain