Holiness, not safety, is the end of our calling.
– Lilias Trotter –
Holiness
You’ll never fool God – Leonard Ravenhill
You may fool your pastor, you may fool yourself, but you’ll never fool God.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
If sin breaks God’s heart – Unknown
If sin breaks God’s heart, what makes you think it’ll fulfill yours?
– Unknown –
What God WON’T protect you from – Elisabeth Elliot
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Only God can make you godly – Ian Thomas
The moment you come to realize that only God can make a man godly, you are left with no option but to find God, and to know God, and to let God be God in and through you.
– Ian Thomas –
God or sin must die in me – Oswald Chambers
God or sin must die in me. The one elementary Bible truth we are in danger of forgetting is that the Gospel of God is addressed to men as sinners, and nothing else.
– Oswald Chambers –
Sin forsaken and forgiven – JC Ryle
Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
– JC Ryle –
Abusing this world – Robert Murray McCheyne
“The form of this world is passing away”
1 Corinthians 7:31
Brethren, if you are ever so deeply taken up with any enjoyment that it takes away your love for prayer or for your Bible, or that it would frighten you to hear the cry, “The bridegroom comes” and you’d reply, “Has He come already?” then you are abusing this world.
– Robert Murray McCheyne –
Clear the Decks – Ian Thomas
Christ did not die simply that you might be saved from a bad conscience, or even to remove the stain of past failure, but to “clear the decks” for divine action.
– Ian Thomas –