If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.
– Martin Luther –
Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry?
Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die?
Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand?
Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you DAMNED?
– Leonard Ravenhill –
The church used to confess its sin, now it confesses its right.
– David Wilkerson –
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
– AW Tozer –
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
The powers of the air are only obliged to recognize one thing; authenticity, reality, truth. They see through the appearances and they yawn.
– Art Katz –
Doubt your own strength, but never doubt Christ’s. In your gravest conflicts with Satan, trust Him to bring you out of the devil’s dominion with a high hand, in spite of all the force and fury of hell.
– William Gurnall –
from The Christian in Complete Armour
Suppose we quit our “inevitable councils” and “innumerable excuses” and begin to “glare defiance” at a Christianity that merely maintains drills, talks war, and plays church. Rise up, O men of God! Gird your armour on. Get armed to the teeth. Be as determined as fighting men to win a war. Christ’s soldiers live to fight, love to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and go anywhere providing it be forward …
– LE Maxwell –
Our tent is pitched not in a paradise, but on a field of battle.
– LE Maxwell –