There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Flesh – Carnal Nature – Selfishness
Called Holy – JC Ryle
I cannot see how any man deserves to be called “holy,” who willfully allows himself in sins, and is not humbled and ashamed because of them.
– JC Ryle –
What true repentance is – JC Ryle
True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin.
– JC Ryle –
The Heart – Richard Baxter
The first and great work of a Christian is about his heart. There it is that God dwells by His Spirit, in His saints; and there it is that sin and Satan reign, in the ungodly. The great duties and the great sins are those of the heart. There is the root of good and evil: the tongue and life are but the fruits and expressions of that which dwells within.
– Richard Baxter –
Beginning of Salvation – Martin Luther
The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation.
– Martin Luther –
What Sin Is – Oswald Chambers
Remember what sin is: the fundamental independence of God; the thing in me that says, I can do without God, I don’t need Him.
– Oswald Chambers –
Prayer and sin can’t coexist – JC Ryle
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
– JC Ryle –
The quickness of repentance – Richard Baxter
The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it’s a tree?
– Richard Baxter –
If sin breaks God’s heart – Unknown
If sin breaks God’s heart, what makes you think it’ll fulfill yours?
– Unknown –