A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet
reaches your conscience.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Salvation
Saved from Hell – Robert Murray McCheyne
Most of God’s people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within.
– Robert Murray McCheyne –
Believe on Christ – JW Chickering
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. (John 3:36 KJV)
“What is it to believe on Christ?” It is, to feel your need of him; to believe that he is able and willing to save you, and to save you now; and to cast yourself unreservedly on his mercy, and trust in him alone for your salvation.
– JW Chickering –
1831-1913, from A Pastor’s Counsel: Wise Words for Weary, Wounded, and Wandering Sheep
Jesus Has Become Strength, Song, and Salvation – Charles Spurgeon
Let this one great, gracious, glorious fact lie in your spirit until it permeates all your thoughts and makes you rejoice even though you are without strength. Rejoice that the Lord Jesus has become your strength and your song—He has become your salvation.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Grief and Joy – AW Pink
After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.
– AW Pink –
How You Preach Salvation – Billy Sunday
I am not the author of the plan of salvation, but I am responsible for the way I preach it.
– Billy Sunday –
Do You Wish Others to be Saved? – Charles Spurgeon
Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself. Be sure of that.
– Charles Spurgeon –
One Single Soul – JC Ryle
One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world.
– JC Ryle –
A World of Nice People – CS Lewis
A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world—and might be even more difficult to save.
– CS Lewis –