Are we going in the way Christ has gone, or are we only talking and praying and singing about it? What about likes and dislikes? What about choices? What about Self? Christ’s way is the way that says “No” to the “I” that rises up so often and in its many different disguises. “If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself (say “No” to himself), and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.”
– Amy Carmichael –
[Speaking on fornication/sexual impurity]
There is no sin which will sooner bring about a nation’s fall. If history teaches anything, it teaches that sensual indulgence is the surest way to national ruin. Society, in not condemning this sin, condemns itself.
– FB Meyer –
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to him.
– Charles H. Spurgeon –
There are men today who are in darkness and bondage because they are not willing to turn from their sins and confess them. I do not know how a man can hope to be forgiven if he is not willing to confess his sins.
– DL Moody –
from The Way to God
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
– John Bunyan –
Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
– William Gurnall –
Sin and hell are married unless Repentance proclaim the divorce.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Do not be lazy. Run each day’s race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God. Keep on running even when you have had a fall. The victory wreath is won by him who does not stay down, but always gets up again, grasps the banner of faith and keeps on running in the assurance that Jesus is Victor.
– Basilea Schlink –
The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows our own crookedness. We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
