The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it’s a tree?
– Richard Baxter –
Repentance
Chief danger of our times – William Booth
The chief danger of the 20th century will be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.
– William Booth –
God be merciful to me – William Tiptaft
Have you ever stood on the same plot of ground with the publican, crying—God be merciful to me a sinner.
– William Tiptaft –
How to avoid conviction – Ichabod Spencer
Man can avoid conviction by truth, just as he can avoid burning by fire — getting out of its way, refusing contact with it — and no other way. So of the frost, so of the light of the sun, so of the thunder. These may be shunned, but not directly resisted. The truth is just like them.
– Ichabod Spencer –
from the sermon The Truth Held in Unrighteousness: Romans 1:18
God or sin must die in me – Oswald Chambers
God or sin must die in me. The one elementary Bible truth we are in danger of forgetting is that the Gospel of God is addressed to men as sinners, and nothing else.
– Oswald Chambers –
Delay of Repentance – Thomas Watson
By the delay of repentance, sin strengthens, and the heart hardens. The longer ice freezeth, the harder it is to be broken.
– Thomas Watson –
Importance of Repentance – Curtis Hutson
There is no doubt that all men from Adam on have had to repent in order to have a right relationship with God. The importance of repentance is demonstrated by the fact that men of every biblical age preached it.
– Curtis Hutson –
How to have a spiritual awakening – John R. Mott
A necessary precursor of any great spiritual awakening is a spirit of deep humiliation growing out of a consciousness of sin, and fresh revelation of the holiness and power and glory of God.
– John R. Mott –
Christianity is a revolutionary principle of life – Ian Thomas
Christian living is not a method or technique; it is an entirely different, revolutionary principle of life.
– Ian Thomas –