Watch the kind of people that God brings around you, and you will be humiliated to find that this is His way of reviewing to you the kind of person you have been to Him.
– Oswald Chambers –
Flesh – Carnal Nature – Selfishness
If we have a purpose of our own – Oswald Chambers
If we have a purpose of our own, it destroys the simplicity and the leisureliness which ought to characterise the children of God.
– Oswald Chambers –
“Im Doing it for Jesus” – A W Tozer
And we would sanctify almost anything by saying “Im doing it for Jesus” I warn you Brother that you cant do anything for Jesus that Jesus wouldn’t do. … The only thing I can do for God is [something] holy like God. and the only thing i can do for Jesus is that which Jesus has allowed and permitted and commanded me to do!
– A W Tozer –
No Longer Can You Sing – Leonard Ravenhill
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 –
it must become natural – Andrew Murray
As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, [it should be] for us to be humble.
– Andrew Murray –
People Don’t Know the Difference – Leonard Ravenhill
We live in a day where people don’t know the difference between love an lust.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Beware of Secret Sins – Thomas Brooks
Beware of secret sins.
– Thomas Brooks –
from The Secret Key To Heaven, 1665
The Baited Hook – Thomas Adams
Satan, like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
– Thomas Adams –
(1583-1652)
Mortify Sin (Lust) – John Owen
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