Quote Collection
What a holy man is – AW Tozer
The holy man is not one who cannot sin. A holy man is one who will not sin.
– AW Tozer –
Discounting the Cross – Martyn Lloyd-Jones
It is not surprising that the cross has been discounted by modern theologians; it is because they have started with the love of God without His holiness.
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones –
What true repentance is – JC Ryle
True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin.
– JC Ryle –
Don’t live by feelings – Charles Spurgeon
Live entirely upon Christ. Living by feelings is a deadly form of life.
– Charles Spurgeon –
God will prune us – Elisabeth Elliot
Every now and then God prunes us. He thwarts our purposes.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Do you hate sin? – Charles Spurgeon
If I hate sin because of the punishment, I have not repented of sin. I merely regret that God is just.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Affliction quickens prayer – Thomas Watson
Affliction quickens the spirit of prayer. Jonah was asleep in the ship—but at prayer in the whale’s belly! Perhaps in a time of health and prosperity we pray in a cold and formal manner—we put no coals to the incense; we scarcely minded our own prayers, and how should God mind them?Then God sends some cross or other affliction to make us take hold of Him. Now their prayers pierced the heavens! In times of trouble, we pray earnestly and fervently.
– Thomas Watson –
THE Book – RA Torrey
The Bible is not a book, it is THE Book.
– RA Torrey –
from The Voice of God in the Present Hour, 20
Kneeling and Standing – Leonard Ravenhill
A man who kneels before God will stand before men.
– Leonard Ravenhill –