Quote Collection
Seek God’s Face – Thomas Brooks
God sees us in secret, therefore, let us seek His face in secret.
– Thomas Brooks –
The discontented person – Thomas Watson
The discontented person thinks everything he doth for God too much, and everything God doth for him too little.
– Thomas Watson –
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
Lifeboat or a Cruise Ship? – Leonard Ravenhill
The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
How you should spend your time – Richard Baxter
O Spend your time as you would hear of it in the Judgment!
– Richard Baxter –
1615-1691
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 Body Needs to Cooperate with the Head – Jack Wellman
Jesus is the Head of the church. He expects His body to cooperate.
– Jack Wellman –
Our Lord’s Obedience – Charles Spurgeon
Our Lord’s obedience was as deep as it was broad, for his zeal to do the will of him that sent him consumed him. He says himself, “I delight to do thy will, O my God, yea thy law is within my heart.” Such righteousness he puts upon all believers.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from Christ’s Glorious Achievements
Don’t be lazy in prayer – Martin Luther
We must be careful not to break the habit of true prayer and … become lax and lazy, cool and listless toward prayer. The devil who besets us is not lazy or careless, and our flesh is too ready and eager to sin and is disinclined to the spirit of prayer.
– Martin Luther –
from A Simple Way to Pray