A boy in the streets, selling mince-pies, kept crying, “Hot mince-pies!” A person bought one of them, and found it quite cold. ”Boy,” said he, ”why do you call these pies hot?” “Thats the name they go by, sir,” said the boy. So there are plenty of people who are called Christians, but they are not Christians—thats the name they go by; but all the substance is drained out of them by other matters.
– Charles Spurgeon –
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
– GK Chesterton –
from On Running After One’s Hat
We’ve been so concerned about being cool, relevant, and fun that we have forgotten to be bread, light, and life to a hungry, dark, and dying world.
– Eric Ludy –
from The Bravehearted Gospel
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
– GK Chesterton –
Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your whole so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt Whose you are and Whom you serve.
– JC Ryle –
Here is the day, O Lord, Thy day, cause it to shine forever in our individual lives like a jewel.
– Oswald Chambers –
There are only two days on my calendar…today and the day of judgment.
– Martin Luther –
A dark hour makes Jesus bright.
– Robert Murray McCheyne –
We will not build on the sand, but on the bedrock of the sayings of Christ, and the gates and minions of hell shall not prevail against us. Should such men as we fear? Before the whole world, yes, before the sleepless, lukewarm, faithless, namby-pamby Christian world, we will dare to trust our God, we will venture our all for Him, we will live and we will die for Him, and we will do it with His joy unspeakable singing aloud in our hearts. We will a thousand times sooner die trusting only in our God than live trusting in man. And when we come to this position the battle is already won, and the end of the glorious campaign in sight. We will have the real Holiness of God, not the sickly stuff of talk and dainty words and pretty thoughts; we will have a Masculine Holiness, one of daring faith and works for Jesus Christ.
– CT Studd –