Until we taste the bitterness of our own misery we will never relish the sweetness of God’s mercy. Until we see how foul our sins have made us we will never pay our tribute of praise to Christ for washing us… If you would know the heart of your sin then you must know the sins of your heart!
– William Secker –
God or sin must die in me. The one elementary Bible truth we are in danger of forgetting is that the Gospel of God is addressed to men as sinners, and nothing else.
– Oswald Chambers –
Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
– JC Ryle –
You cannot sin so much as God can forgive. If it comes to a pitched battle between sin and grace, you shall not be so bad as God shall be good. I will prove it to you. You can only sin as a man, but God can forgive as a God. You sin as a finite creature, but the Lord forgives as the infinite Creator.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from the sermon “The Exceeding Riches of His Grace,” on Ephesians 2:7
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 –
Get rid of this bunkum about the “carnal Christian”. Forget it! If you’re carnal, you’re not saved.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
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 –
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 –
It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God’s truth and remain in sin.
– Oswald Chambers –