The closer a person is to God, the more terrible the least sin seems to be.
– Rees Howells –
Sin – Temptation
February 22, 2013
Tell me in light of the Cross, isn’t it a scandal that you and I live today as we do?
– Alan Redpath –
February 21, 2013
Do you desire to subdue sin? Would you be holy? Would you imitate your Master? Do you desire to rise to superlative heights of spirituality? Are you wanting to be made like the angels of God, full of zeal and ardor for the Master’s cause? You cannot without the Spirit: “Without Me you can do nothing.” Oh branch of the vine, you can have no fruit without the sap! Oh child of God, you have no life within you apart from the life which God gives you through His Spirit!
– Charles Spurgeon –
February 18, 2013
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 –
February 7, 2013
Never read God’s will concerning you without honestly giving up yourself to do it at once, and asking grace to do so. God has given us His Word, to tell us what He wants us to do and what grace He has provided to enable us to do it: how sad to think it a pious thing just to read that Word without any earnest effort to obey it! May God keep us from this terrible sin! Let us make it a sacred habit to say to God, ‘Lord, whatever I know to be Thy will, I will at once obey.‘ Ever read with a heart yielded up in willing obedience.
– Andrew Murray –
January 8, 2013
How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose! … YOU drove them from me, YOU Who are the True, the Sovereign Joy drove them from me and took their place! … O Lord, my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation!
– St. Augustine –
January 4, 2013
Jesus gave both His hands to the nails; how can I keep back one of mine from this blessed work? Night and day He toiled and prayed for me; how can I give a single hour to selfish indulgence? Up, idle heart; stretch out thy hand to work, or uplift it to pray: heaven and hell are in earnest; LET ME BE SO…
– Charles Spurgeon –
December 9, 2012
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
– Corrie ten Boom –
December 8, 2012
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
– Corrie ten Boom –