God’s holiness is not an unloving holiness, and God’s love is not an unholy love. It is only by keeping these two primary moral qualities of the divine being closely related that we may rightly behold the character of God.
– Thomas Oden –
studies
Moral Freedom – AW Tozer
A God less than sovereign could not bestow moral freedom upon His creatures. He would be afraid to do so.
– AW Tozer –
A Baptism of Pure Love – Samuel Logan Brengle
Do you want to know what holiness is? It is pure love. Do you want to know what the baptism of the Holy Spirit is? It is not a mere sentiment. It is not a happy sensation that passes away in a night. It is a baptism of love that brings every thought into captivity to the Lord Jesus (see 2 Cor. 10:5); casts out all fear (see 1 John 4:18); burns up doubt and unbelief as fire burns flax; makes you ‘meek and lowly in heart’ (Matt. 11:29); makes you hate uncleanness, lying and deceit, a flattering tongue, and every evil way with a perfect hatred; makes heaven and hell eternal realities; makes you patient and gentle with the disobedient and sinful; makes you ‘pure … peaceable … open to reason, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere’ (James 3:17), and brings you into perfect and unbroken sympathy with the Lord Jesus Christ in His toil and travail to bring a lost and rebellious world back to God.
– Samuel Logan Brengle –
Greatest Power in the World – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Sin is the greatest power in the world, with one exception, and this is the power of God.
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones –
Living the Impossible Life – Bill Bright
The Christian life isn’t difficult, it’s impossible—without the power of the Holy Spirit.
– Bill Bright –
Put it into practice – Thomas Boston
Whatever you learn from the word, labor to put it in practice. … No wonder they get little insight into the Bible who make no conscience of practicing what they know. But while the stream runs into a holy life, the fountain will be the more free.
– Thomas Boston –
Chief Dangers – William Booth
I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.
– William Booth –
No ceiling to love – Mildred Bangs Wynkoop
There is no ceiling to love.
– Mildred Bangs Wynkoop –
Definition or Demonstration – Leonard Ravenhill
The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it’s waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.
– Leonard Ravenhill –