We cannot have flowers without roots, or fruit without trees. We cannot have the fruit of the Spirit, without vital union with Christ, and a new creation within.
– JC Ryle –
from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels (Volume 2: Luke 6:27-38), 1856
Consecration
Live on Christ and For Christ – Charles Spurgeon
Be earnest, be prayerful, be united. Study the Word, and practice it. Live on Christ, and live for Him.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from Letters of Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The History of God’s Specific Movements – T. Austin-Sparks
The history of God’s specific movements with the Church is not the history of His adding something, but of His bringing back to the primal fullness with which He filled His Son.
– T. Austin-Sparks –
True Repentance – George Whitefield
True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His law, and in His people.
– George Whitefield –
How to Measure Your Growth in Grace – Oswald Chambers
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitivity to sin.
– Oswald Chambers –
Prayer Develops the Life of God In Us – Oswald Chambers
Prayer is not meant to develop us, but to develop the life of God in us after the new birth.
– Oswald Chambers –
Around or On the Cross? – Steve Hill
Religion is hanging around the cross; Christianity is getting on the cross.
– Steve Hill –
The Greatest Need of My People – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
The greatest need of my people [as their pastor] is my personal holiness.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Do Not Merely Divert Sin – John Owen
A sin is not mortified when it is only diverted.
– John Owen –
from The Mortification of Sin, 1656