The church used to confess its sin, now it confesses its right.
– David Wilkerson –
Spiritual Warfare
The Theologian Devil – AW Tozer
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
– AW Tozer –
Christ Is Praying For Me – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
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 –
Authenticity, Reality, and Truth – Art Katz
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 –
Never Doubt Christ’s Strength – William Gurnall
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
Gird Your Armor On – LE Maxwell
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 –
Field of Battle – LE Maxwell
Our tent is pitched not in a paradise, but on a field of battle.
– LE Maxwell –
How Revival Comes – Charles Finney
Revival is no more a miracle than a crop of wheat. Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die—or if need be, to win and die! “The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”
– Charles Finney –
Thomas Brooks on the Conquest of Sin
In conquering of those enemies that be within, you make a conquest over the devil and hell itself. … And as this is the most noble conquest, so it is the most necessary conquest. You must be the death of your sins, or they will be the death of your souls. Sin is a viper, that does always kill where it is not killed.
– Thomas Brooks –