The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows our own crookedness. We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Apostasy begins in the closet. No man ever backslid from the life and power of Christianity who continued constant and fervent in private prayer. He who prays without ceasing is likely to rejoice evermore.
– Adam Clarke –
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin or sin will choke prayer.
– JC Ryle –
1816-1900
We take our stand at the cross and consent to be nailed to it, voluntarily, actually; to submit to the pain whereby the flesh dies; the hands are pierced that carnal work may no longer be done in the energy of the flesh; the feet are pierced that no longer we may walk according to the flesh; the brow is pierced with the thorn crown that our head may not any longer be held up for human diadems and fading laurel wreaths …
– AT Pierson –
The true man of God is heartsick. He is . . .
grieved at the worldliness of the Church,
grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church,
grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Forgiveness is the key which unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. The forgiveness of Jesus not only takes away our sins, it makes them as if they had never been.
– Corrie ten Boom –
from Tramp for the Lord
God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will … for us to glory in anything else, would be sin, as there is nothing greater than God, there is no calling greater than praising God.
– John Piper –
You can’t live wrong and pray right.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God’s law and to show the nature of sin.
– Martin Luther –
