Beware of no man more than of yourself, for we often carry our worst enemies within us.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from the book The Complete John Ploughman
There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
You can’t live wrong and pray right.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Fear may suppress sin, though faith alone conquers and overcomes sin.
– Samuel Bolton –
from The True Bounds of Christian Freedom, 1645
Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted.
– JC Ryle –
Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of personal godliness has fallen sadly into the background.
– JC Ryle –
You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
You say to me; “Oh brother, we are ‘in the world’ [and not of it].” Sure you are, but you don’t have to pump it into your living room!! Garbage in, Garbage out !!!
– Paul Washer –