David had one of the most blessed experiences in the world, and the blessedness was that he was miserable about his sin.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
David had one of the most blessed experiences in the world, and the blessedness was that he was miserable about his sin.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
We’re living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We’ve changed the terminology– iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
There’s one thing we need above everything else; it’s something we don’t talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Nobody else can give you a clean heart but God.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
When Holy God draws near in true revival, people come under terrible conviction of sin. The outstanding feature of spiritual awakening has been the profound consciousness of the Presence and holiness of God.
– Henry Blackaby –
The nature of Christ’s salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.
– AW Pink –
A revival always includes conviction of sin on the part of the church. … Backslidden Christians will be brought to repentance. A revival of God is nothing else than a a new beginning of obedience to God.
– Charles Finney –
Sinned as we have as a nation, yet to our sin we have added pride in our sinning. The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the church has lost her power to weep over it.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
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 the book Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, 1856