… settle down on this one thing, that Jesus came to save you now, in this life, from the power and dominion of sin, and to make you more than conquerors through His power.
– Hannah Whitall Smith –
from The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life
Victory
Stop Excusing Your Sin – AJ Chase
We will never deal successfully with our sins while excusing them as weaknesses, mistakes, or uncontrollable emotions or desires.
– AJ Chase –
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 –
