A real minister of the gospel is a man of prayer. Prayer is his grand employment, his safety, his first and perpetual duty; and under grace, the grand source of his consolation. Our instructions will be always barren, if they be not watered with our tears and prayers.
– Thomas Coke –
Spirit-filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God.
– Samuel Chadwick –
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
– Charles Spurgeon –
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain, but without stain.
– CS Lewis –
Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
– William Gurnall –
Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.
– Charles Spurgeon –
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
There are rare Christians whose very presence incites other to be better Christians. I want to be that rare Christian.
– AW Tozer –
Many Christians have what we might call a ‘cultural holiness.’ They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them… But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.
– Jerry Bridges –