Sin – Temptation

Sweetness of God’s Mercy – William Secker

Sweetness of God’s Mercy – William Secker

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 – Oswald Chambers

God or sin must die in me – Oswald Chambers

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 –

The battle between sin and forgiveness – Charles Spurgeon

The battle between sin and forgiveness – Charles Spurgeon

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

Clear the Decks – Ian Thomas

Clear the Decks – Ian Thomas

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 –

It is sin for you – Susanna Wesley

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 –