Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Sanctification
Turning Away From All that Dims Christ in My Life – J. Wilbur Chapman
Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps me in my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me; and I must, as a Christian turn away from it.
– J. Wilbur Chapman –
Too Many Christians Feel at Home in this World – AW Tozer
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world.
– AW Tozer –
Salvation from Hell or Salvation from Sin? – AW Pink
The nature of Christ’s salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.
– AW Pink –
The Victorious Christian – AW Tozer
The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ. What he is or is not no longer concerns him. He believes that he has been crucified with Christ and he is not willing either to praise or deprecate such a man.
– AW Tozer –
Death to Self – William Law
Death to self is the only entrance into the Church of the living God; and nothing but God can give this death, and that alone through the inward work of the cross of Christ by His Spirit made real in the soul.
– William Law –
Denying Ourselves & Taking Up Our Cross – John Wesley
Denying ourselves and taking up our cross isn’t a little side issue—it is absolutely necessary to becoming or continuing to become a disciple of Jesus.
– John Wesley –
Our Duty to Grow and Thrive in Holiness – John Owen
It is our duty to grow and thrive in holiness. Now what God requires of us, we are to believe he will help us to achieve. But we must not only believe that he will help us, but we must also believe that he is now helping us, we must not rely on our feelings of whether we are aware of being holy or not.
– John Owen –
from The Holy Spirit (abridged by RJK Law)
Till Sin Be Bitter, Christ Will Not Be Sweet – Thomas Watson
There is no rowing to paradise except upon the stream of repenting tears. Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.
– Thomas Watson –