God’s command to “pray without ceasing” is founded on the necessity we have of his grace to preserve the life of God in the Soul, which can no more subsist one moment without it, than the body can without air.
– John Wesley –
Grace
The reply to condemnation – Martin Luther
When the devil throws our sins up to us and declares that we deserve death and hell, we ought to speak thus: “I admit that I deserve death and hell. What of it? Does this mean that I shall be sentenced to eternal damnation? By no means. For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction in my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Where he is, there shall I be also.”
– Martin Luther –
A Work to Carry Out for Him – Rees Howells
For God says, ‘If it the consequences you are afraid of, don’t come to Me for protection.’ There is a great difference between a selfish fear of consequences and wanting God’s protection because you have a work to carry out for Him.
– Rees Howells –
If Armed – William Gurnall
As [there is] no standing without armor, so [there is] no fear of falling into the fiend’s hands if armed.
– William Gurnall –
August 3, 2015
Remember that Christ Himself is better than any of His blessings; better than the power, or the victory, or the service that He grants. … He is God’s best: we may have Christ; yielding to Him in such completeness and abandonment of self that it is no longer we that live, but Christ that liveth in us. Will you thus take Him?
– Charles G. Trumbull –
from Victory in Christ
May 28, 2015
The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most, especially when your teacher is the Lord Jesus Himself…No athlete complains when the training is hard. He thinks of the game, the race, and the prize.
– Corrie ten Boom –
May 27, 2015
We honor the old prophets, we honor the Tozers and Spurgens but we don’t want to pay the price they paid.
– Paul Washer –
May 20, 2015
There’s one thing we need above everything else; it’s something we don’t talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
May 2, 2015
You need the blood of Jesus as much now as at first. You never can stand before God in yourself. You must go again and again to be washed. Even on your dying bed, you must hide under Jehovah, our righteousness. You must also lean on Jesus. He alone can overcome the sin in you. Draw nearer and nearer to Him every day.
– Robert Murray McCheyne –