God give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye—and then let men or devils do their worst.
– George Whitefield –
Sanctification
Absolutely Abandoned to Jesus Christ – Oswald Chambers
Whenever our Lord talked about the relation of a disciple to Himself it was in terms of mystical union: “I am the vine [not the root of the vine, but the vine itself], ye are the branches.” We have not paid enough attention to the illustrations Jesus uses. This is the picture of sanctification in the individual, a completeness of relationship between Jesus Christ and myself. Pharisaic holiness means that my eyes are set on my own whiteness and I become a separate individual. I have the notion that I have to be something; I have not, I have to be absolutely abandoned to Jesus Christ, so one with Him that I never think of myself apart from Him. Love is never self-conscious.
– Oswald Chambers –
from Biblical Ethics
Damage to the Church – Charles Spurgeon
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 –
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 –