An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.
– Thomas Brooks –
An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.
– Thomas Brooks –
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world.
– AW Tozer –
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
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 –
The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ. What he is or is not no longer concerns him. He believes that he has been crucified with Christ and he is not willing either to praise or deprecate such a man.
– AW Tozer –
Death to self is the only entrance into the Church of the living God; and nothing but God can give this death, and that alone through the inward work of the cross of Christ by His Spirit made real in the soul.
– William Law –
Denying ourselves and taking up our cross isn’t a little side issue—it is absolutely necessary to becoming or continuing to become a disciple of Jesus.
– John Wesley –
Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your whole so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt Whose you are and Whom you serve.
– JC Ryle –
It is our duty to grow and thrive in holiness. Now what God requires of us, we are to believe he will help us to achieve. But we must not only believe that he will help us, but we must also believe that he is now helping us, we must not rely on our feelings of whether we are aware of being holy or not.
– John Owen –
from The Holy Spirit (abridged by RJK Law)