Marriage can either be a taste of Heaven on earth or hell on earth, depending on where you place the Cross.
– CT Studd –
The Cross
The Greatness of His Sufferings – John Bunyan
For my part, I stand amazed at those that would not have the world believe, that the death of Jesus Christ was, in itself, so terrible as it was. …I say, if Christ was put into the very capacity of one that must suffer what in justice ought to be inflicted for sin; then, how we can so diminish the greatness of his sufferings, as some do, without undervaluing of the greatness of his love, I know not; and how they will answer it, I know not.
– John Bunyan –
from All Loves Excelling, 1692
The Way of Christ – Amy Carmichael
Are we going in the way Christ has gone, or are we only talking and praying and singing about it? What about likes and dislikes? What about choices? What about Self? Christ’s way is the way that says “No” to the “I” that rises up so often and in its many different disguises. “If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself (say “No” to himself), and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.”
– Amy Carmichael –
Christ Left Us His Peace – Matthew Henry
[When] Christ died, He left a will in which He gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of Arimathea, His clothes to the soldiers, and His mother to John. But to His disciples, who had left all to follow Him, He left not silver or gold, but something far better—His PEACE!
– Matthew Henry –
God’s Grace is Always Sufficient – John Bunyan
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
– John Bunyan –
A People Consecrated to God – John Wesley
Oh that God would give me the thing which I long for! That … I may see a people wholly devoted to God, crucified to the world, and the world crucified to them. A people truly given up to God in body, soul and substance! How cheerfully would I then say, “Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.”
– John Wesley –
Christ’s Vitalizing Death – Oswald Chambers
It is never our earnestness that brings us into touch with God, but our Lord Jesus Christ’s vitalizing death. (See Hebrews 10:19-23)
– Oswald Chambers –
from If You Will Ask
A Life Surrendered to God – AW Pink
Taking up my “cross” means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.
– AW Pink –
Take Our Stand at the Cross – AT Pierson
We take our stand at the cross and consent to be nailed to it, voluntarily, actually; to submit to the pain whereby the flesh dies; the hands are pierced that carnal work may no longer be done in the energy of the flesh; the feet are pierced that no longer we may walk according to the flesh; the brow is pierced with the thorn crown that our head may not any longer be held up for human diadems and fading laurel wreaths …
– AT Pierson –
