Before I preach love, mercy, and grace, I must preach sin, law, and judgment.
– John Wesley –
Sin – Temptation
Prayer is the remedy – JC Ryle
Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins. That sin will never stand firm which is heartily prayed against. That devil will never long keep dominion over us which we beseech the Lord to cast forth. But then we must spread out all our case before our heavenly Physician, if he is to give us daily relief.
– JC Ryle –
from A Call to Prayer
The Holiest Person – Oswald Chambers
The holiest person is one who is most conscious of what sin is.
– Oswald Chambers –
What keeps you from your Bible? – AW Tozer
Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.
– AW Tozer –
from A Man of God
The work of affliction – Thomas Watson
Affliction works out sin—and works in grace.
– Thomas Watson –
When sin becomes disgusting – George MacDonald
The salvation of Christ is a salvation from the smallest tendency or leaning to sin. It is deliverance into the pure air of God’s ways of thinking and feeling. It is a salvation that makes the heart pure with the will and the choice of the heart to be pure. To such a heart, sin is disgusting.
– George MacDonald –
As we grow in holiness – Jerry Bridges
As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.
– Jerry Bridges –
Death over sin – Francis Asbury
Let me die rather than live to sin against thee!
– Francis Asbury –
Greatest Power in the World – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Sin is the greatest power in the world, with one exception, and this is the power of God.
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones –