You can’t expect God to be the source of your peace if the world is the source of your satisfaction.
– Unknown –
The World
Human vs God’s Wisdom – Charles Spurgeon
The sum total of all human knowledge is but as a drop of the bucket compared with the wisdom of God.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Holiness would transform the world – CS Lewis
How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing … it is irresistible. If even 10% of the world’s population had it, would not the whole world be converted and happy before a year’s end?
– CS Lewis –
from Letters to an American Lady, 1967
Release your grasp on the temporal – Jim Elliot
Father, let me loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the tension of the grasping hand. Open my hand to receive the nail of Calvary, as Christ’s was opened. He thought Heaven, yea, equality with God, not a thing to be clutched at. So let me release my grasp.
– Jim Elliot –
The Church needs to move the world – GK Chesterton
We do not want a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
– GK Chesterton –
The Glory of the Gospel – Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones –
Do you look like the world? – AW Tozer
One compromise here, another there, and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.
– AW Tozer –
from A Man of God
God shapes the world by prayer – EM Bounds
God shapes the world by prayer.
– EM Bounds –
Fascinated with what world? – AW Tozer
The more fascinated we become with the toys of this world the more we forget that there’s another world to come.
– AW Tozer –