When we look at ourselves, at the littleness of our love, the bareness of our service, and the small progress we make towards perfection, how soul-refreshing it is to turn away to Him; to plunge afresh in “the fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness”; to remember that we are “accepted in the beloved” … “who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.” Oh! the fullness of Christ, the fullness of Christ.
– Hudson Taylor –
Life is pitiful, death so familiar, suffering and pain so common, yet I would not be anywhere else. Do not wish me out of this or in any way seek to get me out, for I will not be got out while this trial is on. These are my people, God has given them to me, and I will live or die with for Him and His glory.
– Gladys Aylward –
Man can avoid conviction by truth, just as he can avoid burning by fire — getting out of its way, refusing contact with it — and no other way. So of the frost, so of the light of the sun, so of the thunder. These may be shunned, but not directly resisted. The truth is just like them.
– Ichabod Spencer –
from the sermon The Truth Held in Unrighteousness: Romans 1:18
Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to his humanity.
– Ian Thomas –
Christians don’t tell lies—they just go to church and sing them.
– AW Tozer –
We cannot have flowers without roots, or fruit without trees. We cannot have the fruit of the Spirit without vital union with Christ, and a new creation within.
– JC Ryle –
from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels,1856
[Integrity] means a person is the same on the inside as he or she claims to be on the outside. He is the same person alone in a hotel room a thousand miles from home as he is at work or in his community or with his family. A man of integrity can be trusted.
– Billy Graham –
The moment you come to realize that only God can make a man godly, you are left with no option but to find God, and to know God, and to let God be God in and through you.
– Ian Thomas –
Let us be strong in the Lord, and the power of His might, for He it is that shall tread down our enemies.
– Henry Scougal –
from The Life of God in the Soul of Man