Sanctification

God has armed you – CS Lewis

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain, but without stain.

– CS Lewis –

Why you’re not growing in holiness – Joel Beeke

Do not expect to grow in holiness if you spend little time alone with God and do not take His Word seriously.

– Joel Beeke –

The Church and the World Can’t Jog Together – Catherine Booth

When the church and the world can jog comfortably along together, you can be sure something is wrong. The world has not compromised—its spirit is exactly the same as it ever was. If Christians were equally as faithful to the Lord, separated from the world, and living so that their lives were a reproof to all ungodliness, the world would hate them as much as it ever did. It is the church that has compromised, not the world.

– Catherine Booth –

God Fills the Heart – FW Faber

God always fills in all hearts all the room which is left Him there.

– FW Faber –

Maturity Takes Time – DL Moody

Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 3:18

Although you may be born again, it will require time to become a full-grown Christian. Justification is instantaneous, but sanctification is a lifework. We are to grow in wisdom. We are to add grace to grace. A tree may be perfect in its first year of growth, but it has not attained its maturity. So with the Christian: he may be a true child of God, but not a matured Christian.

– DL Moody –
from Day by Day with DL Moody

The Way of Christ – Amy Carmichael

Are we going in the way Christ has gone, or are we only talking and praying and singing about it? What about likes and dislikes? What about choices? What about Self? Christ’s way is the way that says “No” to the “I” that rises up so often and in its many different disguises. “If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself (say “No” to himself), and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.”

– Amy Carmichael –