When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore opposeth us all he can.
– Richard Sibbes –
Sin – Temptation
July 21, 2014
No one can live without delight, and that is why a man deprived of spiritual joy goes over to carnal pleasure.
– Thomas Aquinas –
July 19, 2014
Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.
– John Wesley –
July 16, 2014
…we want to get away from this terrible, haunting preoccupation with ourselves where we love our love of God rather than God Himself.
– Art Katz –
July 15, 2014
Sin is, in truth, the hardest of all masters. In its service there is plenty of fair promises, but an utter dearth of performance. Its pleasures are but for a season. Its wages are sorrow, remorse, self-accusation, and too often death. They that sow to the flesh, do indeed reap corruption.
– JC Ryle –
July 14, 2014
It is not falling into water that drowns, but lying in it. It is not falling into sin that damns, but lying in it without repentance.
– Thomas Watson –
June 14, 2014
I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians.
– Samuel M. Zwemer –
(1930s)
May 16, 2014
The pilgrims now, to gratify the flesh,
Will seek its ease, but oh! How they afresh
Do thereby plunge themselves new griefs into!
Who seek to please the flesh, themselves undo!
– John Bunyan –
from The Pilgrim’s Progress
May 6, 2014
With every possible guile that he knows, the devil would snatch us from the closet of prayer. For in prayer man is linked with God, and in that union Satan is baffled and beaten.
– Leonard Ravenhill –