Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die.
– GK Chesterton –
Death
September 19, 2014
You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.
– John Piper –
July 15, 2014
Sin is, in truth, the hardest of all masters. In its service there is plenty of fair promises, but an utter dearth of performance. Its pleasures are but for a season. Its wages are sorrow, remorse, self-accusation, and too often death. They that sow to the flesh, do indeed reap corruption.
– JC Ryle –
July 14, 2014
It is not falling into water that drowns, but lying in it. It is not falling into sin that damns, but lying in it without repentance.
– Thomas Watson –
April 28, 2014
I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood.
– RA Torrey –
April 25, 2014
(I am) resolved, never to do anything which I would be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
– Jonathan Edwards –
April 13, 2014
Speak every time my dear brother as if it were your last …
– George Whitefield –
March 5, 2014
Men die in darkness at your side,
Without a hope to cheer the tomb;
Take up the torch and wave it wide,
The torch that lights time’s thickest gloom.
– Horatius Bonar –
February 26, 2014
If I should die, I shall be able to say to the rising generation, God will surely visit you. A work is begun that will not end till the world be subdued to the Savior.
– Andrew Fuller –