We see His glory on the mountain, but we never live for His glory there.
– Oswald Chambers –
Christian Life
Hold on and persevere – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus and his word until the end.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
When sin becomes disgusting – George MacDonald
The salvation of Christ is a salvation from the smallest tendency or leaning to sin. It is deliverance into the pure air of God’s ways of thinking and feeling. It is a salvation that makes the heart pure with the will and the choice of the heart to be pure. To such a heart, sin is disgusting.
– George MacDonald –
You are as holy as you want to be – AW Tozer
Every man is as holy as he really wants to be.
– AW Tozer –
As we grow in holiness – Jerry Bridges
As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.
– Jerry Bridges –
Discipleship as a revolution and strategy – Bill Hull
Discipleship is at the same time a character revolution and a worldwide strategy. It is a strategy that requires depth as a perquisite for reproduction and multiplication.
– Bill Hull –
Affliction of the godly and wicked – Thomas Watson
Affliction of the godly is like bruising spices, which are most sweet and fragrant. Affliction of the wicked is like pounding weeds, which makes them more unsavory.
– Thomas Watson –
Revival comes through desperation – Al Whittinghill
Revival will come only to a desperate church, not a contented one. He is ever the rewarder of those who “diligently seek Him,” not the mere casual inquirer.
– Al Whittinghill –
True conversion changes your life – Charles Spurgeon
If the man does not live differently from what he did before, both at home and abroad, his repentance needs to be repented of, and his conversion is a fiction.
– Charles Spurgeon –