What is the truest measure of a church’s strength? True strength lies in the vital godliness of the people. The aggregate personal holiness of the members of each church is the only true measure of strength. Any other test offends God, dishonors Christ, grieves the Holy Spirit, and degrades religion.
– EM Bounds –
Christians should live in the world but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water, but if the water gets in the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world, but if the world gets into them, they sink.
– DL Moody –
A spirit of calm contentment always accompanies true godliness.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
The life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration.
– JI Packer –
When the Church and the world can jog comfortably together, you may be sure there is something wrong. The world has not altered. Its spirit is exactly the same as it ever was, and if Christians were equally faithful and devoted to the Lord, and separated from the world, living so that their lives were a reproof to all ungodliness, the world would hate them as much as it ever did.
– Catherine Booth –
Holiness is persevering obedience.
– Charles Spurgeon –
The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it’s a tree?
– Richard Baxter –
Holiness, not safety, is the end of our calling.
– Lilias Trotter –
You may fool your pastor, you may fool yourself, but you’ll never fool God.
– Leonard Ravenhill –