We will never deal successfully with our sins while excusing them as weaknesses, mistakes, or uncontrollable emotions or desires.
– AJ Chase –
Victory
Sin Doesn’t Reign in the Saint – Thomas Brooks
Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.
– Thomas Brooks –
1608-1680
The pleasures of religion – Matthew Henry
The pleasures of religion will abide; they wither not in winter, nor tarnish with time, nor doth age wrinkle their beauty; frosts nip them not, nor do storms blast them; they continue through the greatest opposition of events, and despise that time and change, which happens to all things under the sun’ (Ecl 9:1). Believers, when they are sorrowful, they are but as sorrowful, for they are “always rejoicing” (2 Cor 6:10) and “Thanks be to God who always causes us to triumph” (2 Cor 2:14).
– Matthew Henry –
from The Pleasantness of a Religious Life, 1714
Do this if you want be holy – Charles Spurgeon
If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.
– Charles Spurgeon –
What true revival is – Andrew Murray
A true revival means nothing less than a revolution, casting out the spirit of worldliness and selfishness, and making God and His love triumph in the heart and life.
– Andrew Murray –
Take the Hardest Thing in Your Life – Lilias Trotter
Take the very hardest thing in your life — the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.
– Lilias Trotter –
God’s Grace is Always Sufficient – John Bunyan
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
– John Bunyan –
The Hardest Thing in Your Life – Lilias Trotter
Take the very hardest thing in your life – the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.
– Lilias Trotter –
Find Thy Body Near the Wall – Matthew Arnold
Let the victors, when they come,
When the forts of folly fall,
Find thy body by the wall.
– Matthew Arnold –
1867
