Holiness

February 7, 2013

Never read God’s will concerning you without honestly giving up yourself to do it at once, and asking grace to do so.  God has given us His Word, to tell us what He wants us to do and what grace He has provided to enable us to do it: how sad to think it a pious thing just to read that Word without any earnest effort to obey it!  May God keep us from this terrible sin!  Let us make it a sacred habit to say to God, ‘Lord, whatever I know to be Thy will, I will at once obey.‘ Ever read with a heart yielded up in willing obedience.

– Andrew Murray –

January 28, 2013

No flesh shall glory in His presence, and the religious flesh is no more acceptable than the irreligious.

– T. Austin-Sparks –

December 11, 2012

God’s sacred intent for you and for me is nothing short of absolute abandonment to Jesus, entire separation from the pollution of the world, and ardent worship of our King with every breath we take.

– Leslie Ludy –

December 7, 2012

No flesh shall glory in His presence, and the religious flesh is no more acceptable than the irreligious.

– T. Austin-Sparks –

December 6, 2012

“Yet lackest thou one thing; Go sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor; he was grieved at that saying, and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions!” Poor youth! He had a good mind to be a Christian, and to inherit eternal life, but thought it too dear, if it could be purchased at no less an expense than of his estate! And thus many, both young and old, now-a-days, come running to worship our blessed Lord in public, and kneel before him in private, and inquire at his gospel, what they must do to inherit eternal life: but when they find they must renounce the self-enjoyment of riches, and forsake all in affection to follow him, they cry, “The Lord pardon us in this thing! We pray thee, have us excused” … He will not!”

– George Whitefield –

December 3, 2012

He who prays as he ought will endeavour to live as he prays.

– John Owen –

November 22, 2012

If anyone would tell you the surest, shortest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make it a rule to yourself, to thank God for every thing that happens to you.

– William Law –
from A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life 

November 8, 2012

We all need to add more nobility to our behavior, more majesty to our language, more elegance to our presentation, and more sacred decorum to our bearing.
– Leslie Ludy –

November 3, 2012

The purpose of God isn’t to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

– AW Tozer –