Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.
– Alan Redpath –
Sanctification
Powerful holiness – Charles Spurgeon
In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Transformation is a process – David Kinnaman
Most people in America, when they are exposed to the Christian faith, are not being transformed. They take one step into the door, and the journey ends. They are not being allowed, encouraged, or equipped to love or to think like Christ. Yet in many ways a focus on spiritual formation fits what a new generation is really seeking. Transformation is a process, a journey, not a one-time decision.
– David Kinnaman –
Only God can make you godly – Major Ian Thomas
The moment you come to realize that only God can make a man godly, you are left with no option but to find God, and to know God, and to let God be God in and through you.
– Major Ian Thomas –
Lips Reveal the Heart – Harry Ironside
The testimony of the lips indicates the state of the heart.
– Harry Ironside –
Holy or Happy? – Charles Spurgeon
I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.
– Charles Spurgeon –
The Church is … – Paul David Tripp
The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center.
– Paul David Tripp –
A Great Likeness to Jesus – Robert Murray McCheyne
It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus.
– Robert Murray McCheyne –
Forsaking Sin – William Gurnall
To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.
– William Gurnall –