No longer can you sing the good old “the Boat of Zion is sailing along” She’s either stuck on a mud bank or sinking pretty rapidly and the only way to get her going again according to some people, it isn’t too serious. All we have to do is repaint the ship… and that will get us out for it will be attractive.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, [it should be] for us to be humble.
– Andrew Murray –
We live in a day where people don’t know the difference between love an lust.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Beware of secret sins.
– Thomas Brooks –
from The Secret Key To Heaven, 1665
Satan, like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
– Thomas Adams –
(1583-1652)
An unmortified lust will drink up the spirit and all the vigour of the soul, and weaken it for all duties.
– John Owen –
from The Mortification of Sin, 1656
It becomes all professing Christians to be much on their guard against flattery. We mistake greatly if we suppose that persecution and hard usage are the only weapons in Satan’s armory. That crafty foe has other engines for doing us mischief, which he knows well who to work. He knows how to poison souls by the world’s seductive kindness, when he cannot frighten them by the fiery dart and the sword. Let us not be ignorant of his devices. By peace he destroys many.
– JC Ryle –
from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, 1856
How as God loved me? God has loved me to the end of all my sinfulness, the end of all my self-will, all my selfishness, all my stiffneckedness, all my pride, all my self-interest; now He says – “love one another, as I have loved you.” I am to show to my fellow-men the same love that God showed to me. That is Christianity in practical working order.
– Oswald Chambers –
Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?
– Leonard Ravenhill –