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 –
Temptations Transformed From Lions to Honey – John Bunyan
Sanctification
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 –
Sanctification by Faith – Henry Drummond
Earnest souls who are attempting sanctification by struggle, instead of sanctification by faith, might be spared much humiliation by learning the botany of the Sermon on the Mount.
– Henry Drummond –
Sanctification – William J. Seymour
Sanctification makes us pure in heart.
– William J. Seymour –
Make Me Holy – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Lord make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Don’t Neglect the Most Important Things – AW Tozer
The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos; the church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
– AW Tozer –
Too Many Christians Are At Home in the World – AW Tozer
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful adjustment to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest. The world recognizes them and accepts them for what they are. And this is the saddest thing that can be said about them. They are not lonely, but neither are they saints.
– AW Tozer –