The history of God’s specific movements with the Church is not the history of His adding something, but of His bringing back to the primal fullness with which He filled His Son.
– T. Austin-Sparks –
The Cross
True Repentance – George Whitefield
True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His law, and in His people.
– George Whitefield –
Led Into the Wilderness – FB Meyer
The Lord himself was led up into the wilderness. And in one form or another, every soul who has done a great work in the world has passed through similar periods of obscurity, suffering, disappointment, or solitude.
– FB Meyer –
How to Measure Your Growth in Grace – Oswald Chambers
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitivity to sin.
– Oswald Chambers –
Around or On the Cross? – Steve Hill
Religion is hanging around the cross; Christianity is getting on the cross.
– Steve Hill –
Christians Who Bear Willingly the Cross for God’s Glory – Richard Wurmbrand
In a letter smuggled out secretly, the Underground Church said, ”We dont pray to be better Christians, but that we may be the only kind of Christians God means us to be: Christlike Christians, that is, Christians who bear willingly the cross for Gods glory.”
– Richard Wurmbrand –
from Tortured for Christ
Suffering for Christ vs Suffering for Self – Oswald Chambers
I may be such a pig-headed cross-patched, and have such determined notions of my own, that no one can live with me. That is not suffering for the Son of Man’s sake; it is suffering for my own sake.
– Oswald Chambers –
Clinging to Christ – John Owen
The first effect of a true love for Christ is our clinging to him. The believer’s soul is knit to Christ’s soul as David’s was to Jonathan’s (1 Samuel 18:1). Love produces a firm clinging to Christ crucified that makes a soul in some sense always present with Christ on the cross.
– John Owen –
from The Holy Spirit, 1674
How I Live – Martin Luther
I live as though Christ died yesterday, rose again today, and is coming tomorrow.
– Martin Luther –