Spiritual Growth

The Blessing of Pain and Difficulty – Charles Spurgeon

I have often looked gratefully back to my sick chamber. I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.

– Charles Spurgeon –

Growing in Grace – JC Ryle

When I speak of a person growing in grace, I mean simply this —that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, and his spiritual mindedness more marked.

– JC Ryle –

Earnest About Your Soul – JC Ryle

“Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
(2 Peter 3:18)

The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion—whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes, put on once a week, and then laid aside—such a man cannot, of course, be expected to care about “growth in grace.” He knows nothing about such matters. “They are foolishness to him” (1 Corinthians 2:14). But to everyone who is in downright earnest about his soul, and hungers and thirsts after spiritual life, the question ought to come home with searching power. Do we make progress in our religion? Do we grow?

– JC Ryle –
1816-1900

Praying without ceasing – Andrew Murray

If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.

– Andrew Murray –

Do this if you want be holy – Charles Spurgeon

If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.

– Charles Spurgeon –

Seminaries – Leonard Ravenhill

Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.

– Leonard Ravenhill –

The secret to great living – Amy Carmichael

What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him. Thus speaks every man and woman whose life has made more than a passing flicker in the spiritual realm. It is the life that has no time for trifling that counts.

– Amy Carmichael –