The way to heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
– Jonathan Edwards –
Flesh – Carnal Nature – Selfishness
Prayer vs Sin – JC Ryle
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
– JC Ryle –
Entertained by Sin – John MacArthur
We should not be entertained by the sins for which Christ died.
– John MacArthur –
God’s Strong Love – Charles Spurgeon
His strong love stands like a granite rock, unmoved by the hurricanes of our iniquity.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Pardoned with Certainty – Charles Spurgeon
Confess your sin with honesty, be pardoned with certainty.
– Charles Spurgeon –
When sin takes over a nation – Carter Conlon
When sin takes over a nation, the end result is always confusion. Anger, accusation, and lust for control become the order of the day. Servanthood gives way to the desire to dominate. Sadly, democracy falls to dictatorship. There is only one way out. PRAY. (See Proverbs 29:2)
– Carter Conlon –
Sin must be eliminated – Watchman Nee
Sins must be treated progressively one by one until all have been eliminated.
– Watchman Nee –
Unable to Live Like the World – AW Tozer
The Holy Spirit never enters a person and lets them live like the world. You can be sure of that.
– AW Tozer –
from A Man of God
Daily Put Off Sin – Samuel Rutherford
Put off a sin or a piece of a sin every day.
– Samuel Rutherford –