The World

May 22, 2012

You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness.

– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –

May 10, 2012

All professing Christians should examine themselves and try their own state. It is not those outside the churches where the dead are to be found; there are only too many inside our churches, and close to our pulpits—too many on the benches, and too many in the pews. The land is like the valley in Ezekiel’s vision, “full of bones, very many, and very dry.” (Ezek. 37:2) There are dead souls in all our parishes, and dead souls in all our streets. There is hardly a family in which all live to God; there is hardly a house in which there is not someone dead. Oh, let us all search and look at home! Let us prove our own selves. Are we alive or dead?

– JC Ryle –

May 4, 2012

If I am to love the Lord my God with ALL my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that?

– Elisabeth Elliot –
in Discipline: The Glad Surrender (page 74)

April 29, 2012

A pure heart is one to which all that is not of God is strange and jarring.

– John Tavler –
as was often quoted by Amy Carmichael 

April 25, 2012

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?

– Leonard Ravenhill –

April 22, 2012

Am I willing to trade my addiction to the world’s entertainment for more time with my Bible?

“Blessed is the man . . . whose delight is the law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night.” (Psalm 1.1-2)

– Leslie Ludy –
in Set Apart Femininity, page 74

April 21, 2012

Listening is not today a part of popular religion. We are at the opposite end of the pole from there. Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity, and bluster make a man dear to God. . . . To a people caught in the tempest of the last great conflict God says, “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46.10), and still He says it, as if He means to tell us that our strength and safety lie not in noise but in silence.

– AW Tozer –
from The Pursuit of God 

April 18, 2012

No one whose senses have been exercised to know good and evil but must grieve over the sight of zealous souls seeking to be filled with the Holy Spirit while they are yet living in a state of moral carelessness or borderline sin. Such a things is a moral contradiction. Whoever would be filled and indwell by the Spirit should first judge his life for any hidden iniquities; he should courageously expel from his heart everything which is out of accord with the character of God as revealed by the Holy Scriptures.

– AW Tozer –

April 10, 2012

The world cries for men who are strong: strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. I pray you will be that kind of man, glad that God made you a man, glad to shoulder the burden of manliness in a time when to do so will often bring contempt.

– Elisabeth Elliot –