We need to pray until we get our spiritual eyes refocused on the holiness of God and the lostness of men.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Salvation
We Need to be Purified From Sin – John MacArthur
A person who is not being purified from sin has no claim on being saved from it.
– John MacArthur –
No One Is Beyond the Reach of God’s Mercy – John Bunyan
They think themselves beyond the reach of his mercy. Wherefore in answer to this conceit it is, that the Lord asketh, saying, “Is my hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem?” (Isaiah 50:2)
– John Bunyan –
from All Loves Excelling, 1692
What a Spiritual Awakening Is – Lewis Drummond
A spiritual awakening is no more than God’s people seeing God in His holiness, turning from their wicked ways, and being transformed into His likeness.
– Lewis Drummond –
Delivered From Sin and the Power of Sin – J. Edwin Orr
God Who delivers us from the guilt of sin through faith in Jesus Christ, is able to deliver the believer from the power of sin as well.
– J. Edwin Orr –
Christians Are Cowards – Charles Finney
If Christians were not such cowards, and absolutely disobedient to this plain command of God… one thing would certainly come of it — either they would be murdered in the streets as martyrs, because men could not bear the intolerable presence of truth, or they would be speedily converted to God.
– Charles Finney –
Conformed to and Confident in Christ – Thomas Brooks
The more the soul is conformed to Christ, the more confident it will be of its interest in Christ.
– Thomas Brooks –
from Smooth Stones taken from Ancient Brooks: Selections from the Writings of Thomas Brooks
Don’t Refuse the Light – Oswald Chambers
It is a matter of indifference to God’s grace how abominable I am if I come to the light; but woe be to me if I refuse the light. (See John 3:19-21)
– Oswald Chambers –
A Picture of Revival – James A. Stewart
Revival is the people of God constrained, gripped, overmastered, and overwhelmed by the love of Christ, so that they are feverishly restless to win souls for Christ.
– James A. Stewart –