I know of nothing so utterly exciting as being a Christian, sharing the very Life of Jesus Christ on earth right here and now, being caught up with Him into the relentless, invincible purposes of the almighty God, and having available to us all the limitless resources of God for accomplishing those purposes. Can you imagine anything more exciting than that?
– Major Ian Thomas –
Dry wells send us to the fountain.
– Samuel Rutherford –
from The Loveliness of Christ
I will never shrink from saying that genuine sanctification is a thing that can be seen.
– JC Ryle –
from his book Holiness, 1879
To someone asking for some means to get more strength in his arms and hands to be able to seize and hang on to things, a physician would say that his whole constitution must be built up and strengthened. So the cure of a weak faith is only found by revitalizing our whole spiritual life through close fellowship with God.
– Andrew Murray –
from Teach Me To Pray
My dear friends beware of resting on your first conversion. You that are young believers in Christ, you should be looking out for fresh discovering of the Lord Jesus Christ every moment; you must not build upon your past experiences, you must not build upon a work within you, but always come out of yourselves to the righteousness of Jesus Christ without you; you must be always coming as poor sinners to draw water out of the wells of salvation; you must be forgetting the things that are behind, and be continually pressing forward to the things that are before. My dear friends, you must keep up a tender, close walk with the Lord Jesus Christ.
– George Whitefield –
from Select Sermons of George Whitefield
John 4:14 states, “Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” Compare this with John 7:38-39: “‘He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive.” It is by partaking of the Holy Spirit that the saints have communion with Christ in His fullness.
– Jonathan Edwards –
from The Best of Jonathan Edwards
There are disasters to be faced by the one who is in real fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ. God has never promised to keep us immune from trouble; He says “I will be with him in trouble,” which is a very different thing.
– Oswald Chambers –
If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.
– EM Bounds –
(1835-1913)
I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
– Richard Baxter –
(1615-1691)