Jesus said to the apostles: “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.” This truth helps us to realize that it is our responsibility to cross the barriers of class, to cross the barriers of creed, to cross the barriers of culture, irrespective of the cost involved.
– Alistair Begg –
Without the heartbeat of prayer, the body of Christ will resemble a corpse. The church is dying on her feet because she is not living on her knees.
– Al Whittinghill –
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
– Tertullian –
(160-225 AD)
We should inquire once again as to what the life of faith is. It is one lived by believing in God under any circumstance: “If he slay me,” says Job, “yet would I trust in Him.” That is faith. Because I once believed, loved and trusted God I shall believe, love and trust Him wherever He may put me and however my heart and body may suffer. … Emotion begins to doubt when it senses blackness, whereas faith holds on to God even in the face of death.
– Watchman Nee –
from The Spiritual Man
But the proconsul urged him and said, “Swear, and I will release thee; curse the Christ.” And Polycarp said, “Eighty and six years have I served him, and he hath done me no wrong; how then can I blaspheme my king who saved me?”
– The Martyrdom of Polycarp (in 155 AD) –
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
– Oswald Chambers –
To go back is nothing but death: to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward
– John Bunyan –
from the book Pilgrim’s Progress
Live in Christ and the flesh need not fear death.
– John Knox –
Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; anothers life, anothers death, I stake my whole eternity.
– Horatius Bonar –