God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
– CS Lewis –
Victory
July 12, 2012
Stubbornness and self-love give way to beauty in one who has been broken by God.
– Watchman Nee –
from The Release of the Spirit
July 7, 2012
For this life, being a continual warfare, we must never expect to have rest from our spiritual adversary the devil, or to say, our combat with him is finished, till, with our blessed master, we bow down our heads, and give up the ghost.
– George Whitefield –
June 29, 2012
The perfect victory is to triumph over ourselves. For he that keepeth himself subject in such sort that his sensual affections be obedient to reason, and his reason in all things obedient to Me; that person is truly conqueror of himself . . .
– Thomas a Kempis –
from The Imitation of Christ
June 27, 2012
Victory is not the experience of special Christians, it is instead an experience all believers may share.
– Watchman Nee –
April 8, 2012
Not somehow – but triumphantly!
– V. Raymond Edman –
in They Found the Secret, page 11
March 31, 2012
All practical power over sin and over men depends on maintaining closet communion. Those who abide in the secret place with God show themselves mighty to conquer evil, and strong to work and to war for God. They are seers who read His secrets; they know His will; they are the meek whom He guides in judgment and teaches His way. They are His prophets who speak for Him to others, and even forecast things to come. They watch the signs of the times and discern His tokens and read His signals.
– Arthur T. Pierson –
March 11, 2012
Men and women who hear the Gospel regularly, I often fear much for you. I fear lest you become so familiar with the sounds of its doctrines, that insensibly you become dead to its power. I fear lest your religion should sink down into a little vague talk about your own weakness and corruption, and a few sentimental expressions about Christ, while real practical fighting on Christ’s side is altogether neglected. Oh, beware of this state of mind! Be doers of the Word, and not hearers only. No victory—no crown! Fight and overcome!
– J.C. Ryle –
from The Great Battle
March 9, 2012
Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves — blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.
– A.W. Tozer –