We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.
– Andrew Murray –
The Only Thing Hell Fears – Leonard Ravenhill
What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered
church?
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Grace is Heaven in the Soul – Matthew Henry
Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.
– Matthew Henry –
A Portion Promised – Thomas Watson
The Godly have a portion promised them upon their marriage to Christ, but the portion is not paid till the day of their death. The saints are promoted at death to communion with God; they have what they so long hoped for, and prayed for.
– Thomas Watson –
from The Godly Man’s Picture, 1666
Relationship Not Religion – John R. Rice
It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell.
– John R. Rice –
What Great Love – Max Lucado
On the eve of the cross, Jesus made his decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you.
– Max Lucado –
What is its eternity value? – John Wesley
I value all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.
– John Wesley –
1703-1791
Possession vs Preparation – Richard Baxter
The life to come depends upon this present life. As the life of adult age depends upon infancy, or the reward upon work; or the prize of racers or soldiers upon their running or fighting; or the merchant’s gain upon his voyage. Heaven is won or lost on earth; the possession is there, but the preparation is here.
– Richard Baxter –
from Dying Thoughts, 1683
Sin is Abominable – JC Ryle
Nevertheless settle it firmly in our minds that sin is “the abominable thing that God hateth” that God “is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, and cannot look upon that which is evil.” That the least transgression of God’s law makes us “guilty of all” that “the soul that sinneth shall surely die” that “the wages of sin is death” that God shall “judge the secrets of men” that there is a worm that never dies, and a fire that is not quenched. That “the wicked shall be turned into hell” and “shall go away into everlasting punishment” and that “nothing that defiles shall in any wise enter heaven.”
– JC Ryle –