Do not be taken in or flattered by your own success or fame. Take not only as to whether or not the old creation, including everything which comes by birth, has gone through the cross.
– Watchman Nee –
Christian Life
August 20, 2012
The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
– Matthew Henry –
August 19, 2012
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.
– John Wesley –
August 18, 2012
The more fully that the gospel is preached, in the grand old apostolic way, the more likely is it to accomplish the results which it did in the apostolic days.
– Horatius Bonar –
August 17, 2012
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.
– EM Bounds –
August 16, 2012
Christ in you, on the grounds of redemption – this is the Gospel! To preach anything less than this must inevitably produce “Evan-jellyfish” folk with no spiritual vertebrae, whose faith does not “behave!”
– Ian Thomas –
August 15, 2012
In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, Lucifer could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.
– CS Lewis –
from A Preface to Paradise Lost
August 14, 2012
If Jesus preached the same message minister’s preach today, He would have never been crucified.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
August 13, 2012
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
– DL Moody –