Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
– John Ortberg –
The Sanctification of Waiting – John Ortberg
Communion with Jesus – Charles Spurgeon
Come away to private communion. Come away, shut the doors of your chamber and talk with your Lord Jesus and have close and intimate dealing with Him.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus – Lilias Trotter
Turn your soul’s vision to Jesus, and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him.
– Lilias Trotter –
(note: this is the quote that inspired the song “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus”)
The Wonder of the Grace of God – Leonard Ravenhill
The wonder of the grace of God is that God can take an unholy man out of a unholy world — and make that man holy — and put him back into a unholy world, and keep him holy!
– Leonard Ravenhill –
You Must Be Holy – Charles Spurgeon
If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Temptations Transformed From Lions to Honey – John Bunyan
Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
– John Bunyan –
The One Secret of a Holy Life – Oswald Chambers
The one marvelous secret of a holy life lies not in imitating Jesus, but in letting the perfections of Jesus manifest themselves in my mortal flesh. Sanctification is “Christ in you.”… Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power to be holy; it is drawing from Jesus the holiness that was manifested in Him, and He manifests it in me.
– Oswald Chambers –
Saved and Sanctified – William J. Seymour
Any man that is saved and sanctified can feel the fire burning in
his heart, when he calls on the Name of Jesus.
– William J. Seymour –
Qualifications to Join Us – Samuel Chadwick
Let no man join us who is afraid, and we want none but those who are saved, sanctified and aflame with the fire of the Holy Spirit.
– Samuel Chadwick –
