Sanctification

The Church is to be Holy – Charles Spurgeon

The church is nothing if it is not holy. … Who is to keep the church pure? None but God Himself. If the Lord is there, holiness will abound, and fruits of the Spirit will be seen on all sides …

– Charles Spurgeon –

Holy living is essential preparation – EM Bounds

Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.

– EM Bounds–

Thence springs forth – JI Packer

Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic outflow.

– JI Packer –

Pride must die in you – Andrew Murray

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

– Andrew Murray –

Affliction or Prosperity – Dwight L. Moody

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

– Dwight L. Moody –

God makes us wait – Elisabeth Elliot

He makes us wait. He keeps us on purpose in the dark. He makes us all when we want to run, sit when we want to walk, for He has things to do in our souls that we are not interested in.

– Elisabeth Elliot –
from Secure in the Everlasting Arms

Not filled with the world – DL Moody

Christians should live in the world but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water, but if the water gets in the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world, but if the world gets into them, they sink.

– DL Moody –