Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.
– Charles Spurgeon –
The World
May 13, 2013
America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
April 11, 2013
What will your university education amount to, and all your wealth and honors if you go down through lust and passion and covetousness, and lose your soul at last?
– DL Moody –
April 10, 2013
The god of the world is riches, pleasure, and pride, wherewith it abuses all the creatures and gifts of God.
– Martin Luther –
March 26, 2013
When asked what’s wrong with the world, G.K. Chesterton responded, “I am”.
March 15, 2013
Have you by faith grasped Jesus? Are you by faith cleaving unto Him? Faith is the eye which sees the Ladder—the hand which touches it—the strength which holds it—the feet which mount it. Has the Holy Spirit opened to you this figure, which was new life to Jacob? There is a ready test. Is the world beneath your tread? Do you trample on its love, its fashions, its maxims, its principles?
– Henry Law –
March 13, 2013
In the early church, Christians never had any doubt that they must be different from the world; they, in fact, knew that they must be so different that the probability was that the world would kill them and certainly was that the world would hate them. But the tendency in the modern Church has been to play down the difference between the Church and the world. We have, in effect, often said to people: ‘As long as you live a decent, respectable life, it is quite all right to become a church member and to call yourself a Christian. You don’t need to be so very different from other people.’ [When] in fact, Christians should be easily identifiable in the world. Christ does not take us out of the world; He makes us different within the world.
– William Barclay –
from his commentary on Ephesians 1.3-4
March 12, 2013
Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
– JC Ryle –
from Holiness, Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots (1879)
March 11, 2013
There was a day when I died, utterly died – died to George Müller, his opinions, preferences, tastes, and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren and friends – and since then I have only to show myself approved to God.
– George Müller –