It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.
– George Whitefield –
Holiness
How to Grow in Holiness – Andrew Murray
Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God, and come under His influence and power, except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: “No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God.”
– Andrew Murray –
Different From the Rest of Mankind – Richard Baxter
That this Spirit is given to all true believers is evident by the effects of his being given. They have ends, affections, and lives different from the rest of mankind; they live upon the hopes of a better life, and their heavenly interest overrules all the opposite interest of this world. In order to this they live under the conduct of divine authority, and to obey and please God is the great business of their lives.
– Richard Baxter –
from Dying Thoughts, 1683
Bitterness in Weeping for Sin – Thomas Watson
We are to find as much bitterness in weeping for sin as ever we found sweetness in committing it. Surely David found more bitterness in repenting then he ever found comfort in Bathsheba.
– Thomas Watson –
from The Doctrine of Repentance, 1668
There is No Shortcut to Holiness – William Wilberforce
There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.
– William Wilberforce –
What a Spiritual Awakening Is – Lewis Drummond
A spiritual awakening is no more than God’s people seeing God in His holiness, turning from their wicked ways, and being transformed into His likeness.
– Lewis Drummond –
The Greatest Need of Our Day – Duncan Campbell
A baptism of holiness, a demonstration of godly living is the crying need of our day.
– Duncan Campbell –
God’s House Must Be a House of Prayer – Jim Cymbala
Only turning God’s house into a house of fervent prayer will reverse the power of evil so evident in the world today.
– Jim Cymbala –
Revealing What’s Inside You – John Owen
Temptations and occasions put nothing into man, but only draw out what was in him before.
– John Owen –
1616-1683