The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.
– AW Tozer –
Flesh – Carnal Nature – Selfishness
We Must Be Right With God
Brethren, it is just so much humbug to be waiting for this, night after night, month after month, if we ourselves are not right with God. I must ask myself—”Is my heart pure? Are my hands clean?”
– Comment from the Hebrides Revival –
Sodom’s Iniquity
Sodom’s iniquity was “pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness.”
– Ezekiel 16:49 –
The Cross of Christ – AW Tozer
Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness. So do not seek to hide from it. Do not accept an easy way. Do not allow yourself to be patted to sleep in a comfortable church, void of power and barren of fruit. Do not paint the cross nor deck it with flowers. Take it for what it is, as it is, and you will find it the rugged way to death and life. Let it slay you utterly.
– AW Tozer –
The Church Used to Confess Sin – David Wilkerson
The church used to confess its sin, now it confesses its right.
– David Wilkerson –
A Man’s Actions – Thomas Brooks
A man’s most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
– Thomas Brooks –
No Such Things as a Saved Sinner – Leonard Ravenhill
You know, people say that today. “Oh, I am just a saved sinner.” That is like saying you are a married bachelor. That is like saying you are an honest thief. … You are either saved or you are a sinner.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Change the World – Eric Ludy
We are called to change the world, not be changed by the world.
– Eric Ludy –
When the Church and World Jog Together – Catherine Booth
When the church and the world can jog comfortably along together, you can be sure something is wrong. The world has not compromised—its spirit is exactly the same as it ever was. If Christians were equally as faithful to the Lord, separated from the world, and living so that their lives were a reproof to all ungodliness, the world would hate them as much as it ever did. It is the church that has compromised, not the world.
– Catherine Booth –