As long as we leave sin unconfessed, we are actually saying that we don’t believe the Lord is going to come now.
– AW Tozer –
Holiness
October 23, 2012
It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world.
– John Piper –
October 19, 2012
David Brainerd was pursued by unearthly adversaries who were resolved to rob him of his reward. He knew he must never take off his armor, but lie down to rest with his corselet laced. The stains that marred the perfection of his lustrous dress and the spots of rust on his gleaming shield are imperceptible to us, but they were to him the source of much sorrow and ardency of yearning.
– from The Life of David Brainerd –
October 16, 2012
It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide lovingly united to God’s will – that is my whole business.
– Brother Lawrence –
October 10, 2012
We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify our conduct. The very nature of things is that we must either quit praying or quit bad conduct. Cold, dead praying may exist with bad conduct, but cold, dead praying is no praying in God’s eyes. Our praying advances in power as it rectifies our lives. A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.
– EM Bounds –
October 5, 2012
If you would test the character of anything, you only need to inquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
– Watchman Nee –
October 3, 2012
We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.
– Samuel Rutherford –
September 30, 2012
The best training for a soldier of Christ is not merely a theological college. They always seem to turn out sausages of varying lengths, tied at each end, without the glorious freedom a Christian ought to abound and rejoice in. You see, when in hand-to-hand conflict with the world and the devil, neat little biblical confectionery is like shooting lions with a pea-shooter: one needs a man who will let himself go and deliver blows right and left as hard as he can hit, trusting in the Holy Ghost. It’s experience, not preaching that hurts the devil and confounds the world. The training is not that of the schools but of the market: it’s the hot, free heart and not the balanced head that knocks the devil out. Nothing but forked-lightning Christians will count. A lost reputation is the best degree for Christ’s service. It is not so much the degree of arts that is needed, but that of hearts, loyal and true, that love not their lives to the death: large and loving hearts which seek to save the lost multitudes, rather than guard the ninety-nine well-fed sheep in the pen.
– CT Studd –
September 27, 2012
If there is any trouble in your heart, if you are in darkness, or in the power of sin, I bring to you the Son of God, with the promise that He will come in and take charge.
– Andrew Murray –
from his book Master’s Indwelling