If you have Christ, you will have comfort, joy, peace and liberty; and when the trouble comes, you will find shelter and deliverance by coming near to Him.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from God Loves You
Sin – Temptation
Sin Blinds – Andrew Murray
One great power of sin is that it blinds men so that they do not recognize its true character.
– Andrew Murray –
People Don’t Know the Difference – Leonard Ravenhill
We live in a day where people don’t know the difference between love an lust.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Beware of Secret Sins – Thomas Brooks
Beware of secret sins.
– Thomas Brooks –
from The Secret Key To Heaven, 1665
The Baited Hook – Thomas Adams
Satan, like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
– Thomas Adams –
(1583-1652)
Mortify Sin (Lust) – John Owen
An unmortified lust will drink up the spirit and all the vigour of the soul, and weaken it for all duties.
– John Owen –
from The Mortification of Sin, 1656
Guard Against Flattery – JC Ryle
It becomes all professing Christians to be much on their guard against flattery. We mistake greatly if we suppose that persecution and hard usage are the only weapons in Satan’s armory. That crafty foe has other engines for doing us mischief, which he knows well who to work. He knows how to poison souls by the world’s seductive kindness, when he cannot frighten them by the fiery dart and the sword. Let us not be ignorant of his devices. By peace he destroys many.
– JC Ryle –
from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, 1856
Christianity in Practical Working Order – Oswald Chambers
How as God loved me? God has loved me to the end of all my sinfulness, the end of all my self-will, all my selfishness, all my stiffneckedness, all my pride, all my self-interest; now He says – “love one another, as I have loved you.” I am to show to my fellow-men the same love that God showed to me. That is Christianity in practical working order.
– Oswald Chambers –
How to Live Victoriously – Samuel Logan Brengle
Sin does not leap upon us fully armed. It steals in through a look, a swift, silent suggestion or imagination, but love and loyalty to Jesus will make you watchful and swift to rise up and cast out the subtle enemy. Do this and you shall live, and live victoriously.
– Samuel Logan Brengle –