Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Holiness
Make Progress With God – Smith Wigglesworth
You must every day make higher ground. You must deny yourself to make progress with God. You must refuse everything that is not pure and holy. God wants you pure in heart. He wants you to have an intense desire after holiness … Two things will get you to leap out of yourselves into the promises of God today. One is purity, and the other is FAITH, which is kindled more and more BY PURITY.
– Smith Wigglesworth –
Turning Away From All that Dims Christ in My Life – J. Wilbur Chapman
Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps me in my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me; and I must, as a Christian turn away from it.
– J. Wilbur Chapman –
What We Yield To – PT Forsyth
Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us.
– PT Forsyth –
The Reason for Backsliding – Charles Finney
The secret of backsliding is, that reformations are not carried deep enough. Christians are not set with all their hearts to aim at a speedy deliverance from all sin, but on the contrary are left, and in many instances taught, to indulge the expectation that they shall sin as long as they live.
– Charles Finney –
An Idle Life and a Holy Heart – Thomas Brooks
An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.
– Thomas Brooks –
Too Many Christians Feel at Home in this World – AW Tozer
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world.
– AW Tozer –
Cool & Relevant in a Dying World – Eric Ludy
We’ve been so concerned about being cool, relevant, and fun that we have forgotten to be bread, light, and life to a hungry, dark, and dying world.
– Eric Ludy –
from The Bravehearted Gospel
The Fire Must Come From Heaven – William Gurnall
We may search in vain the corridors of our own hearts and the drafty corners of our souls. We will not find a spark upon our hearth, unless it is some strange fire of natural desires, which will not do. No, the fire that thaws the iciness of the heart must come from heaven—a gift from God, who is a “consuming fire.”
– William Gurnall –