Christian Life

Do you look like the world? – AW Tozer

One compromise here, another there, and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.

– AW Tozer –
from A Man of God

The great desire of the converted – Joseph Alleine

Before conversion, the man made light of Christ, minded his farm, friends, merchandise, more than Christ; now, Christ is to him as his necessary food, his daily bread, the life of his heart, the staff of his life. His great desire is, that Christ may be magnified in him.

– Joseph Alleine –
from A Sure Guide to Heaven, 1671

Saints Upon Their Knees – William Cowper

Satan trembles, when he sees
the weakest saint upon his knees.

– William Cowper –
from the hymn What Various Hindrances We Meet, 1779

Earnest About Your Soul – JC Ryle

“Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
(2 Peter 3:18)

The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion—whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes, put on once a week, and then laid aside—such a man cannot, of course, be expected to care about “growth in grace.” He knows nothing about such matters. “They are foolishness to him” (1 Corinthians 2:14). But to everyone who is in downright earnest about his soul, and hungers and thirsts after spiritual life, the question ought to come home with searching power. Do we make progress in our religion? Do we grow?

– JC Ryle –
1816-1900

The Christian’s Safety – Thomas Watson

The fear of God is a Christian’s safety. He is invulnerable; nothing can hurt him. Plunder him of his money, he carries a treasure about him of which he cannot be robbed (Isa. 33:6). Cast him into prison his conscience is free; kill his body, it shall rise again. He who has on this breastplate of God’s fear may be shot at, but can never be shot through.

– Thomas Watson –
from The Great Gain of Godliness, 1682

Find Contentment – Jeremiah Burroughs

A man whose bones are filled with marrow, and his veins with good blood does not complain of the cold as others do. So a gracious heart, having the Spirit of God within him, and his heart filled with grace has that within him that makes him find contentment.

– Jeremiah Burroughs –
from The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, 1648