Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.
– Vance Havner –
Hardship
Raptured from Responsibility – Leonard Ravenhill
Today’s church wants to be raptured from responsibility.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Laying Bare the Evils of the Age – Horatius Bonar
Someone, then, must undertake the ungracious task of probing and laying bare the evils of the age; for men must not be allowed to congratulate themselves that all is well. If others will not, he will. If others shrink from the obloquy of such a work, he will not. He loves the age too well; he loves his nation too well; he loves his fellow-men too well. They may upbraid him; they may call him a misanthropist, or a prophet of evil; they may ascribe his warnings to the worst of motives, such as pride, or arrogance, or self-esteem, or malice, or envy; but he will give no heed to these unjust insinuations. He will prefer being thus misunderstood and maligned, to allowing men to precipitate themselves upon a ruin which they see not. Rather than that they should perish, he will allow his own good name to be spoken against. He will risk every thing, even the hatred of brethren, rather than withhold the warning.
– Horatius Bonar –
What God Can Do With A Broken Heart – Samuel Chadwick
It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.
– Samuel Chadwick –
Blessing Through Difficulty and Humility – AW Tozer
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
– AW Tozer –
Afflictions Prepare the Soul – Richard Sibbes
The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.
– Richard Sibbes –
I Am Willing to Go Anywhere – David Livingstone
I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere—provided it be forward.
– David Livingstone –
Only Let Me Attain To Jesus Christ – Ignatius of Antioch
Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings … let shatterings of the whole body; and let all the evil torments of the devil come upon me: only let me attain to Jesus Christ.
– Ignatius of Antioch –
(35-107 AD)
Blood of the Martyrs is the Seed of the Church – Tertullian
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
– Tertullian –
(160-225 AD)