Cheerful holiness is the most forcible of sermons.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Holiness
February 27, 2013
Evil can be undone, but it cannot ‘develop into good.’ Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, ‘with backward mutters of dissevering power’–or else not. It still ‘either-or’. If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.
– CS Lewis–
from The Great Divorce
February 24, 2013
The closer a person is to God, the more terrible the least sin seems to be.
– Rees Howells –
February 21, 2013
Do you desire to subdue sin? Would you be holy? Would you imitate your Master? Do you desire to rise to superlative heights of spirituality? Are you wanting to be made like the angels of God, full of zeal and ardor for the Master’s cause? You cannot without the Spirit: “Without Me you can do nothing.” Oh branch of the vine, you can have no fruit without the sap! Oh child of God, you have no life within you apart from the life which God gives you through His Spirit!
– Charles Spurgeon –
February 18, 2013
Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual things then it is sin for you, however, innocent it may be in itself.
– Susanna Wesley –
February 10, 2013
I do not make any sense to this world. May I never make sense.
– Heather Elyse –
February 8, 2013
Devotion: The state of being dedicated, consecrated, or solemnly set apart for a particular purpose.
– Webster’s 1828 Dictionary –
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 –