God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume . . . it is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.
– Vance Havner –
It costs something to be a true Christian.
It will cost us …
our sins,
our self-righteousness,
our ease and
our worldliness!
– JC Ryle –
The whole lives of Christians ought to be a kind of aspiration after piety, seeing they are called unto holiness.
– John Calvin –
A tree may always be known by its fruit. Just so, a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes, and affections.
– JC Ryle –
Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins. That sin will never stand firm which is heartily prayed against. That devil will never long keep dominion over us which we beseech the Lord to cast forth. But then we must spread out all our case before our heavenly Physician, if he is to give us daily relief.
– JC Ryle –
from A Call to Prayer
I believe the holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.
– Charles Spurgeon –
People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.
– JC Ryle –
Self-love may lead us to prayers, but love to God excites us to praises.
– Thomas Manton –
1620-1677
Without holiness, no one shall see the Lord. Jesus didn’t die to save us from hell. That’s a fringe benefit! He died to get total occupation of us. To be holy in speech … in actions … in everything.
– Leonard Ravenhill –