Christian Life

January 15, 2013

A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.

– EM Bounds –

January 14, 2013

I must honestly declare my conviction that, since the days of the Reformation, there never has been so much profession of religion without practice, so much talking about God without walking with Him, so much hearing God’s words without doing them…

– JC Ryle –

January 13, 2013

The one thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn from history.

– Leonard Ravenhill –

January 12, 2013

Thankfulness is a flower which will never bloom well except upon a root of deep humility.

– JC Ryle –

January 11, 2013

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

– Augustine –

January 10, 2013

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

– CS Lewis –

January 9, 2013

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

– Warren Wiersbe –

January 8, 2013

How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose! … YOU drove them from me, YOU Who are the True, the Sovereign Joy drove them from me and took their place! … O Lord, my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation!

– St. Augustine –

January 7, 2013

The love life of a Christian is a crucial battleground. There, if nowhere else, it will be determined as to who is Lord: the world, the self and the devil, or the Lord Christ.

– Elisabeth Elliot –
from Passion and Purity