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
Sanctification
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 –
The soil of awed adoration – JI Packer
The life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration.
– JI Packer –
Holiness is persevering obedience – Charles Spurgeon
Holiness is persevering obedience.
– Charles Spurgeon –
We must allow the Word of God to do the following to us … – John Stott
We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency, and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.
– John Stott –
The quickness of repentance – Richard Baxter
The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it’s a tree?
– Richard Baxter –
If sin breaks God’s heart – Unknown
If sin breaks God’s heart, what makes you think it’ll fulfill yours?
– Unknown –
Shake Before Using – Vance Havner
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, “Shake well before using.” That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
– Vance Havner –
What God WON’T protect you from – Elisabeth Elliot
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
– Elisabeth Elliot –