It is our duty to grow and thrive in holiness. Now what God requires of us, we are to believe he will help us to achieve. But we must not only believe that he will help us, but we must also believe that he is now helping us, we must not rely on our feelings of whether we are aware of being holy or not.
– John Owen –
from The Holy Spirit (abridged by RJK Law)
There is no rowing to paradise except upon the stream of repenting tears. Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.
– Thomas Watson –
Why should a person come to the cross? Why should a person embrace death? With Christ? Because it’s the only way that God can get glory out of a human being!
– Paris Reidhead –
God give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst.
– George Whitefield –
Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
– William Gurnall –
If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.
– Oswald Chambers –
A little hole in the ship sinks it; a small breach in a sea-bank carries away all before it; a little stab at the heart kills a man; and a little sin, without a great deal of mercy, will damn a man.
– Thomas Brooks –
Unless we have WITHIN us that which is ABOVE us, we will eventually yield to that which is AMONG us.
– Unknown –
I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost registered three thousand souls. It is by fire that a holy passion is kindled in the soul whereby we live the life of God. The soul’s safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power Destitute of the Fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing Fire, nothing else matters.
– Samuel Chadwick –