The World

November 14, 2012

In the Western world the enemy has forsworn violence.  He comes against us no more with sword and fagot; he now comes smiling, bearing gifts.  He raises his eyes to heaven and swears that he too believes in the faith of our fathers, but his real purpose is to destroy that faith, or at least to modify it to such an extent that it is no longer the supernatural thing it once was.  He comes in the name of philosophy or psychology or anthropology, and with sweet reasonableness urges us to rethink our historic position, to be less rigid, more tolerant, more broadly understanding.

– AW Tozer –
from God Tells the Man Who Cares, p171

November 7, 2012

If you went after Jesus with the same fervency you went after the world, you would be radically transformed.

– Robert Saunders –

October 24, 2012

In the Scriptures, sin is man’s greatest malady, yet sin is treated as a “light thing” in our culture and in the Christianity it has produced.

– Paul Washer –

October 23, 2012

It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world.

– John Piper –

October 22, 2012

I am not raising future presidents or politicians, but raising children who will lead a nation to repentance, and die for their neighbors.

– Heather Elyse –

October 14, 2012

We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).

– Ed Welch –

October 5, 2012

If you would test the character of anything, you only need to inquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.

– Watchman Nee –

October 4, 2012

Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace.

– Helen H. Lemmel –

October 3, 2012

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.

– Samuel Rutherford –