What is our knowledge and faith, but to know and believe that heaven consists in the glory and love of God there manifested, and that it was purchased by his covenant?
– Richard Baxter –
from Dying Thoughts, 1683
Knowledge – Understanding
The Effect of Scripture – William Perkins
The effect of scripture: it converts people, and even although it is completely contrary to their thinking and desires, it wins them to itself.
– William Perkins –
from The Art of Prophesying, 1592
Zeal is Like Fire – Thomas Brooks
Zeal is like a fire: in the chimney it is one of the best servants, but out of the chimney it is one of the worst masters. Zeal kept by knowledge and wisdom, in its proper place, is a choice servant to Christ and saints.
– Thomas Brooks –
Have You Read or Seen? – AW Tozer
The scribe tells us what he has read, and the prophet tells what he has seen. The distinction is not an imaginary one. Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are overrun today with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the wonder that is God.
– AW Tozer –
Win Souls for Christ – Vance Havner
I know that some are always studying the meaning of the fourth toe of the right foot of some beast in prophecy and have never used either foot to go and bring men to Christ. I do not know who the 666 is in Revelation but I know the world is sick, sick, sick and the best way to speed the Lord’s return is to win more souls for Him.
– Vance Havner –
Study vs Prayer – Leonard Ravenhill
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Judah Heard All of Christ’s Sermons – Thomas Goodwin
Judas heard all Christ’s sermons.
– Thomas Goodwin –
Can’t Preach if You Don’t Have – Vance Havner
You can’t preach it like it is if you don’t believe it like it was.
– Vance Havner –
Doing the devil’s business – William Gurnall
When you see men of power and intellect using their talents against God, weep for their souls. Better they had lived and died slaves and fools, than to do the the devil’s business with their God-given abilities.
– William Gurnall –