Christian Life

January 22, 2013

It is in the closet, in the morning watch, that our spiritual life is both tested and strengthened.  There is the battlefield where it is to be decided every day whether God is to have all, whether our life is to be absolute obedience.  If we truly conquer there, getting rid of ourselves into the hands of our Almighty Lord, the victory during the day is sure.  It is there, in the inner chamber, proof is to be given whether we really delight in God, and make it our aim to love Him with our whole heart.

– Andrew Murray –

January 21, 2013

Victory is not won in the pulpit by firing intellectual bullets or wisecracks, but in the prayer closet; it is won or lost before the preacher’s foot enters the pulpit.

– Leonard Ravenhill –

January 20, 2013

Cheerfulness is the support of our strength; in the joy of the Lord are we strong.

– Charles Spurgeon –

January 19, 2013

Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer!

– Charles Spurgeon –

January 18, 2013

He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.

– Augustine –

January 17, 2013

The desire of love is to give. The desire of lust is to take.

– Unknown –

January 16, 2013

All it takes to make a preacher is a sermon – but it takes an altar to make a man of God.

– BH Clendennen –

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 –