What bliss to be a perfectly pardoned soul! What riches of grace does free forgiveness exhibit! To forgive all, to forgive fully, to forgive freely, to forgive ever! Here is a constellation of wonders; and when I think of how great my sins were, how dear were the precious drops which cleansed me from them, I am in a maze of wondering worshiping affection!
– Charles Spurgeon –
Oh, what a grievous downfall, to plunge from the utmost sense of security, from confidence and delight in God into such an awful terror that man shrinks from the sight of God more than from the sight and presence of the devil!
– Martin Luther –
If a man had to wade breast deep through a thousand hells to obtain Christ–it would be well worth the venture, if at the last he might but say, “My Beloved is mine–and I am His!”
– Charles Spurgeon –
The time is so short, such a little time to rescue souls from hell, for there will be no rescue work in heaven.
– CT Studd –
The truth is, that Christians in general differ very little from either Jews or Heathens. Christianity occupies their heads; but heathenism their hearts. They pretend to have faith: but, as for “the faith that overcomes the world,” they know nothing about it. Their whole life, instead of being occupied in a progressive transformation of the soul after the Divine image, is one continued state of conformity to the world: and, instead of regarding “the friendship of the world” as a decisive proof of their “enmity against God,” they affect it, they seek it, and they glory in it.
– Charles Simeon –
We refuse to so strive and should not be surprised at the lack of God’s mighty stirrings. Is it not amazing that we have no problem with people wearing themselves out in sports for pleasure, work for money, politics for power, and programs for charity, but think it fanatical to so pray for souls? We would die for national freedom, but never for progress in the Kingdom of God. Is it any wonder we see so little of God’s great working? Father Nash* would pray until he had to ‘go to bed absolutely sick, for weakness and faintness, under the pressure.’ The world would have no problem with such dedication except that it was due to prayer for souls. Why should it be such a strange thing to the Church?
– J. Paul Reno –
*Father Nash was the man who prayed “under the stage” during Charles Finney’s revivals.
How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose! … YOU drove them from me, YOU Who are the True, the Sovereign Joy drove them from me and took their place! … O Lord, my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation!
– St. Augustine –
One of the most amazing things Jesus said is that at the judgment seat, preachers are going to say, “I cast out devils,” and Jesus will say, “I never knew you.”
– Leonard Ravenhill –
When we say that there’s only one way of salvation, people say, “You’re very narrow minded.” But the truth is always narrow minded. 2 + 2 = 4. it’s not 3.9, it’s not 4.1.
– Zac Poonen –