Resolved, whenever I hear anything spoken in commendation of any person, if I think it would be praiseworthy in me, that I will endeavor to imitate it.
– Jonathan Edwards –
Christian Life
Christianity Is More Than a Name – Joseph Alleine
Conversion is not the taking upon us the profession of Christianity. Christianity is more than a name. If we will hear Paul, it does not lie in word, but in power (1 Cor. 4:20).
– Joseph Alleine –
from A Sure Guide to Heaven, 1671
The Way of Simplicity – AW Tozer
If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. …We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.
– AW Tozer –
from The Pursuit of God
A Frightened World Needs a Fearless Church – AW Tozer
A frightened world needs a fearless church.
– AW Tozer –
There is No Shortcut to Holiness – William Wilberforce
There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.
– William Wilberforce –
What a Spiritual Awakening Is – Lewis Drummond
A spiritual awakening is no more than God’s people seeing God in His holiness, turning from their wicked ways, and being transformed into His likeness.
– Lewis Drummond –
The Greatest Need of Our Day – Duncan Campbell
A baptism of holiness, a demonstration of godly living is the crying need of our day.
– Duncan Campbell –
God’s House Must Be a House of Prayer – Jim Cymbala
Only turning God’s house into a house of fervent prayer will reverse the power of evil so evident in the world today.
– Jim Cymbala –
Revealing What’s Inside You – John Owen
Temptations and occasions put nothing into man, but only draw out what was in him before.
– John Owen –
1616-1683