Are there not millions of us who would rather go sleeping to hell; than sweating to heaven?
– Thomas Watson –
(1620-1686)
Are there not millions of us who would rather go sleeping to hell; than sweating to heaven?
– Thomas Watson –
(1620-1686)
The Lord concludes: “for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” (Matt 6:21) Where should the heart of the disciple of the Lord Jesus be, but in heaven? Our calling is a heavenly calling, our inheritance is a heavenly inheritance, and our citizenship is in heaven.
But if we believers in the Lord Jesus lay up treasures on earth, than our hearts will be on earth.
Laying up treasures in heaven will draw the heart heavenward. It brings along with it, even in this life, precious spiritual blessings as a reward of obedience to the commandment of our Lord.
– George Müller –
from The Autobiography of George Muller
How many people have you made homesick for God?
– Oswald Chambers –
Oh the rapture mingled with reverential, holy fear — for it is a rapturous, yet divinely fearful thing — to be indwelt by the Holy Ghost, to be a temple of the Living God! Great heights are always opposite great depths, and from the heights of this blessed experience many have plunged into the dark depths of fanaticism.
– Samuel Brengle –
The cross is laid on every Christian. It begins with the call to abandon the attachments of this world. It is that dying of the old man which is the result of his encounter with Christ. As we embark upon discipleship we surrender ourselves to Christ in union with His death… we give over our lives to death. Since this happens at the beginning of the Christian life, the cross can never be merely a tragic ending to an otherwise happy religious life. When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die. It may be a death like that of the first disciples who had to leave home and work to follow Him, or it may be a death like Luther’s, who had to leave the monastery and go out into the world. But it is the same death every time… death in Jesus Christ, the death of the old man at His call. That is why the rich young man was so loath to follow Jesus, for the cost of his following was the death of his will. In fact, every command of Jesus is a call to die, with all our affections and lusts. But we do not want to die, and therefore Jesus Christ and His call are necessarily our death and our life
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
One great power of sin is that it blinds men so that they do not recognize its true character.
– Andrew Murray –
If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
It is an old saying, repentance is never too late; but it is a true saying, repentance is never too soon.
– Henry Smith –
(1560-1591)
Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that mortal man may live in eternity.
– John Huss –