Instead of preaching the good news that sinners can be made righteous in Christ and escape the wrath to come, the gospel has degenerated into the pretext that we can be happy in Christ and escape the hassles of life.
– Ray Comfort –
Do not be lazy. Run each day’s race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God. Keep on running even when you have had a fall. The victory wreath is won by him who does not stay down, but always gets up again, grasps the banner of faith and keeps on running in the assurance that Jesus is Victor.
– Basilea Schlink –
Thousands of preachers who would not dare cut Hell out of their Bibles, have cut it out of their preaching!
– Leonard Ravenhill –
It was well done of Paul to reprove Peter to his face, and it was well done of Peter, to praise Paul in his absence.
– Thomas Adams –
In all things look to the end, and how you will stand before that just Judge.
– Thomas a’ Kempis –
1380-1471
To silence a preacher from preaching judgment is like being
awoke from sleep by a fire alarm, and just silencing the alarm,
and going back to sleep.
– Unknown –
As I was walking in the fields, the thought came over me with almost overwhelming power, that every one of my flock must soon be in heaven or hell. Oh how I wished that I had a tongue like thunder, that I might make all hear; or that I had a frame like iron, that I might visit every one and say, “Escape for thy life! Ah sinner! You little know how I fear that you will lay the blame of your damnation at my door.”
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Strange though it may seem, there are distinct similarities between the ways of God in revival and in judgment. … Because of His very nature, God cannot and will not permit spiritual decline to continue unchecked. He is ever halting and reversing the trend of the times by means of revival—or judgment. Where His people are not prepared for the one, they shut themselves up to the other.
– Arthur Wallis –
Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?
– Thomas Watson –
from The Great Gain of Godliness, 1682
