Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Idleness tempts the devil to tempt.
– Thomas Watson –
1620-1686
The fear of God is wisdom in that it makes us consider: “I considered my ways” (Psalm 119:59). A great part of wisdom lies in consideration. He who fears God considers how vain the world is, and therefore dares not love it; how short time is, and therefore dares not lose it; how precious salvation is, and therefore dares not neglect it.
– Thomas Watson –
from The Great Gain of Godliness, 1682
They tell us now even in some evangelical circles that we ought to hobnob with Sodom and get chummy with Gomorrah in order to convert them … and these dear people are not turning the light on in Sodom, they’re just getting used to the dark.
– Vance Havner –
No one can live without delight, and that is why a man deprived of spiritual joy goes over to carnal pleasure.
– Thomas Aquinas –
1225-1274
Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Not many Christians today can forget the fact that the devil goeth about as a roaring lion, but we seem to have lost sight of the fact that the Lion of the tribe of Judah has defeated the roaring lion of hell, and therefore every anointed Samson or Gideon or church can also slay the lion of hell. Though wicked men are doing wickedly, God’s promise to us is that “the people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits” (Daniel 11:32).
– Leonard Ravenhill –
The greatest tragedy is a sick church in a dying world.
– Leonard Ravenhill –