In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Holiness
A Repentant Spirit – Watchman Nee
People who cover their faults and excuse themselves do not have a repentant spirit.
– Watchman Nee –
What makes some Christians more holy than others? – JC Ryle
What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much.
– JC Ryle –
Churches filled with God – Duncan Campbell
The Kingdom of God is not going to be advanced by our churches becoming filled with men, but by men in our churches becoming filled with God.
– Duncan Campbell –
Doctrine is useless, unless… – JC Ryle
Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something of “the image of Christ” must be seen and observed by others in our private life, and habits, and character, and doings.
– JC Ryle –
Only God can make you godly – Major Ian Thomas
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 –
Lips Reveal the Heart – Harry Ironside
The testimony of the lips indicates the state of the heart.
– Harry Ironside –
Holy or Happy? – Charles Spurgeon
I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.
– Charles Spurgeon –
The Life You Should Live – Charles Spurgeon
Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixed upright.
– Charles Spurgeon –