Christian Life

June 28, 2011

We preachers have the most serious job in the world.  It’s not to be popular, not to be nice.  It’s to get people to step out of darkness into the light.  Life is short.  Eternity is long.

– Leonard Ravenhill –

June 27, 2011

Consecration is not hard for the person that has met God. This person insists on giving himself entirely to God.

– AW Tozer –

June 26, 2011

There is nothing better in the world for strengthening one’s faith than testings!… We were in the school of faith and there is nothing to be compared with having to be delivered to keep you abiding: you will never do it without.

– Rees Howells –

June 25, 2011

An unholy church! it is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hell’s laughter, heaven’s abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.

– Charles Spurgeon –

June 24, 2011

Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by this heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.

– William Gurnall –

June 23, 2011

The soul is purged and prepared for union with the divine light just as the wood is prepared for transformation into the fire . . . by heating and enkindling it from without the fire transforms the wood into itself and makes it as beautiful as itself.

– St. John of the Cross –

June 22, 2011

When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.

– John Wesley –

June 21, 2011

An unholy church! it is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hell’s laughter, heaven’s abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.

– Charles Spurgeon –

June 20, 2011

Get rid of this bunkum about the ‘carnal Christian’. Forget it! If you’re carnal, you’re not saved.

– Leonard Ravenhill –