The Christian life is an impossible one and it isn’t for everyone. You must enter through the narrow [gate] where you must leave everything behind and be stripped naked of yourself. You must get rid of your pride. Many so-called Christians are on the wide road leading to destruction. they may have all the outward signs of being a Christian (go to church, serve, read their bible, pray, etc.) but there is no inward change of repentance.
– Unknown –
If Christianity is to receive a rejuvenation, it must be by other means than any now being used. If the Church in the second half of this century is to recover from the injuries she suffered in the first half, there must appear a new type of leader. The proper, ruler-of-the-synagogue type will never do. Neither will the priestly type of man who carries out his duties, takes his pay and asks no questions, nor the smooth-talking pastoral type who knows how to make the Christian religion acceptable to everyone. All these have been tried and found wanting. Another kind of religious leader must arise among us. He must be of the old prophet type, a man who has seen visions of God and has heard a voice from the Throne. When he comes (and I pray God there will be not one but many), he will stand in flat contradiction to everything our smirking, smooth civilization holds dear.
– AW Tozer –
The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven’t yet come to the end of themselves. We’re still trying to give orders, and interfering with God’s work within us.
– AW Tozer –
Sodom’s iniquity was “pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness.”
– Ezekiel 16:49 –
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
– St. John Chrysostom –
(349-407 AD)
I am content to fill a little space if God be glorified.
– Susanna Wesley –
mother of John and Charles Wesley
God sends no one away empty, except those who are full of themselves.
– DL Moody –
I consider that the chief dangers which will confront the twentieth century will be: Religion without the Holy Spirit; Christianity without Christ; Forgiveness without regeneration; Morality without God and Heaven without Hell.
– William Booth –
Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state
– William Law –