When you see men of power and intellect using their talents against God, weep for their souls. Better they had lived and died slaves and fools, than to do the the devil’s business with their God-given abilities.
– William Gurnall –
Flesh – Carnal Nature – Selfishness
Keeping the devil on his throne – William Gurnall
Everything the sinner has—time, strength, intellect, and all—is spent to keep the devil on his throne.
– William Gurnall –
Salvation from Hell or Salvation from Sin? – AW Pink
The nature of Christ’s salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.
– AW Pink –
Don’t Justify What You Need to Crucify – Unknown
Stop trying to justify what you need to crucify.
– Unknown –
What Is Sin? – Mother of John Wesley
Whatever weakens your reasoning, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes away your relish for spiritual things, in short, if anything increases the authority of the flesh over the spirit, that to you becomes sin, however good it is in itself.
– John Wesley’s Mother –
What Sin Is – John Bunyan
Sin is . . .
the dare of God’s justice,
the rape of His mercy,
the jeer of His patience,
the slight of His power
the contempt of His love!
– John Bunyan –
Till Sin Be Bitter, Christ Will Not Be Sweet – Thomas Watson
There is no rowing to paradise except upon the stream of repenting tears. Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.
– Thomas Watson –
Heavenly Hope – William Gurnall
Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
– William Gurnall –
Having God Within Us
Unless we have WITHIN us that which is ABOVE us, we will eventually yield to that which is AMONG us.
– Unknown –