If thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying “I am saved” is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.
– Charles Spurgeon –
If you do not plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don’t begin, for this is what Christianity is all about. It is a change of citizenship, a change of governments, a change of allegiance. If you have no intention of letting Christ rule your life, then forget Christianity; it is not for you.
– Kay Arthur –
Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.
– Alan Redpath –
The moment you come to realize that only God can make a man godly, you are left with no option but to find God, and to know God, and to let God be God in and through you.
– Major Ian Thomas –
We must be willing to live as entirely different men, who literally represent heaven on earth, because we have received the Spirit of the King of heaven.
– Andrew Murray –
from Experiencing the Holy Spirit
If I do not put to death the things in me which are not of God, they will put to death the things that are of God.
– Oswald Chambers –
Understand who Jesus Christ is: to know Him is to love Him, to love Him is to trust Him; and to trust Him is to be radically, dramatically, and eternally transformed.
– Adrian Rogers –
The essence of the Christian life is to live in the presence of Jesus Christ.
– J. Vernon McGee –
The place where we are [at now] is God’s schoolroom, not somewhere else. Here we may be conformed to the likeness of Christ.
– Elisabeth Elliot –