Christ did not die simply that you might be saved from a bad conscience, or even to remove the stain of past failure, but to “clear the decks” for divine action.
– Ian Thomas –
Sin – Temptation
Carnal Christianity – Leonard Ravenhill
Get rid of this bunkum about the “carnal Christian”. Forget it! If you’re carnal, you’re not saved.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
It is sin for you – Susanna Wesley
Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual things then it is sin for you, however, innocent it may be in itself.
– Susanna Wesley –
A deadly opiate for the conscience – AW Tozer
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
– AW Tozer –
Truth and Sin – Oswald Chambers
It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God’s truth and remain in sin.
– Oswald Chambers –
True Grace – Randy Alcorn
Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God’s grace never encourages us to live in sin, on the contrary, it empowers us to say no to sin and yes to truth.
– Randy Alcorn –
Seeming Peace of Sinners – Thomas Watson
The seeming peace a sinner has is not from the knowledge of his happiness but the ignorance of his danger.
– Thomas Watson –
Delay of Repentance – Thomas Watson
By the delay of repentance, sin strengthens, and the heart hardens. The longer ice freezeth, the harder it is to be broken.
– Thomas Watson –
Two Types of Peace – Joseph Alleine
The conscience cannot be truly pacified until soundly purified (Heb 10:22). Cursed is that peace maintained in a way of sin (Deut 29:19-20). Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world: peace with sin, and peace in sin.
– Joseph Alleine –
from A Sure Guide to Heaven, 1671