Persecution

Love to God – Jonathan Edwards

Love to God disposes us meekly to bear injuries from others, because it sets us very much above the injuries of men. … It sets above the reach of injuries from others, because nothing can ever really hurt those that are the true friends of God. Their life is hid with Christ in God; and he, as their protector and friend, will carry them on high as on the wings of eagles ; and all things shall work together for their good (Rom. 8:28); and none shall be permitted really to harm them, while they are followers of that which is good (1 Pet. 3:13).

– Jonathan Edwards –
taken from the book Charity and its Fruits

July 31, 2015

A man should be like tea; his real strength [character] appearing when he gets in hot water.

– Unknown –

May 28, 2015

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most, especially when your teacher is the Lord Jesus Himself…No athlete complains when the training is hard. He thinks of the game, the race, and the prize.

– Corrie ten Boom –

May 27, 2015

We honor the old prophets, we honor the Tozers and Spurgens but we don’t want to pay the price they paid.

– Paul Washer –

March 10, 2015

You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.

– Robert Murray McCheyne –

March 9, 2015

If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you’re serving in the wrong place.

– G. Campbell Morgan –

March 1, 2015

The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.

– Oswald Chambers –

February 18, 2015

Christianity especially has always thrived under persecution. For at such times it has no lukewarm professors. The Christian is then reminded that his Master’s kingdom is not of this world. When all on earth looks black, he looks up to heaven for consolation. Then he sees himself as a pilgrim and a stranger. For it is then as in the hour of death that he will examine well his foundations and cleave to the fundamentals.

But when religion is in a state of quiet and prosperity, the opposite effect tends to take place. The soldiers of the church militant will then tend to forget they are at war. Their ardor slackens and their zeal languishes. John Owen has made an apt comparison: Religion in a state of prosperity is like a colony that is long settled in a strange country. It is gradually assimilated in feature, demeanor, and language to the native inhabitants, until at length every vestige of its distinctiveness has died away.

 – William Wilberforce –
from the book Real Christianity, 1797

December 20, 2014

I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and will weep until it arises again, just as Mary Magdalene sat at the tomb of Jesus and wept until Jesus showed Himself. Then when I came out of prison I saw Christianity is not dead. The number of practicing Christians in Romania according to the figures given by the Communists themselves in 20 years of Communist dictatorship has grown 300 percent.

– Richard Wurmbrand –