Without love, true holiness is impossible, so I pray that my love for others will grow.
– Andrew Murray –
Consecration
Sanctifying Faith – JC Ryle
The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.
– JC Ryle –
Dying to Live – Lettie B. Cowman
You must die in order to live. You must refuse to consult your own ease and well-being. You must be crucified, not only in desires and habits which are sinful, but in many more which appear innocent and right.
– Lettie B. Cowman –
Streams in the Desert
How to have a spiritual awakening – John R. Mott
A necessary precursor of any great spiritual awakening is a spirit of deep humiliation growing out of a consciousness of sin, and fresh revelation of the holiness and power and glory of God.
– John R. Mott –
The testimony of the Church – Charles Spurgeon
In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Holiness – Adrian Rogers
Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.
– Adrian Rogers –
Part-time loyalty to Jesus – Vance Havner
A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.
– Vance Havner –
Count the Cost of Christianity – Kay Arthur
If you do not plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don’t begin, for this is what Christianity is all about. It is a change of citizenship, a change of governments, a change of allegiance. If you have no intention of letting Christ rule your life, then forget Christianity; it is not for you.
– Kay Arthur –
Dying Daily – Alan Redpath
Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.
– Alan Redpath –