We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.
– Vance Havner –
Salvation
New Life – AW Tozer
The Gospel is concerned with a new life, with a birth upward onto a new level of being, and until it is effected such a rebirth it has not done a saving work within the soul.
– AW Tozer –
from God’s Pursuit of Man
True Salvation – GA Jarquin
I bet you there will be people in hell saying, “I thought there was no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.”
– GA Jarquin –
Jesus came to save you NOW – Hannah Whitall Smith
… settle down on this one thing, that Jesus came to save you now, in this life, from the power and dominion of sin, and to make you more than conquerors through His power.
– Hannah Whitall Smith –
from The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life
Willing to pay the cost? – AW Tozer
Christ has paid the full price for our redemption, but our walk with God on a daily basis will cost us much. Are we willing, cheerfully, to pay the cost?
– AW Tozer –
from A Man of God
He Became a Curse For Us – Richard Sibbes
He became not only a man but a curse, a man of sorrows, for us. He was broken that we should not be broken; he was troubled, that we should not be desperately troubled; he became a curse, that we should not be accursed.
– Richard Sibbes –
from The Bruised Reed, 1630
The great desire of the converted – Joseph Alleine
Before conversion, the man made light of Christ, minded his farm, friends, merchandise, more than Christ; now, Christ is to him as his necessary food, his daily bread, the life of his heart, the staff of his life. His great desire is, that Christ may be magnified in him.
– Joseph Alleine –
from A Sure Guide to Heaven, 1671
Beginning of Salvation – Martin Luther
The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation.
– Martin Luther –
Confess Our Sins – Alan Redpath
It’s Satan’s delight to tell me that once he’s got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.
– Alan Redpath –