Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Life
The Name They Go By – Charles Spurgeon
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 Reconsidered – GK Chesterton
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
– GK Chesterton –
from On Running After One’s Hat
Cool & Relevant in a Dying World – Eric Ludy
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
Thanksgiving is the Highest Form of Thought – GK Chesterton
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 Unmistakable – JC Ryle
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 – Oswald Chambers
Here is the day, O Lord, Thy day, cause it to shine forever in our individual lives like a jewel.
– Oswald Chambers –
Today and Judgment – Martin Luther
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
A dark hour makes Jesus bright.
– Robert Murray McCheyne –