We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.
– AW Tozer –
worship
God uses broken things – Vance Havner
God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume . . . it is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.
– Vance Havner –
Sin forsaken and forgiven – JC Ryle
Sin forsaken, is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
– JC Ryle –
It’s their nature – Charles Spurgeon
Let the dogs bark, it is their nature too. Go on preaching Christ crucified.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Full of joy – Thomas Watson
The sea is not so full of water—as the soul of a glorified saint is full of joy. There can be no sorrow in Heaven—as there can be no joy in Hell.
– Thomas Watson –
Affliction is good – Thomas Watson
Afflictions work for good, as they conform us to Christ. His life was a series of sufferings—”a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief” Isaiah 53:3. He wept, and bled! Was His head crowned with thorns—and do we think to be crowned with roses? It is good to be like Christ—though it be by sufferings!
– Thomas Watson –
Believing the whole Gospel – Augustine
If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
– Augustine –
The cost of being a true Christian – JC Ryle
It costs something to be a true Christian.
It will cost us …
our sins,
our self-righteousness,
our ease and
our worldliness!
– JC Ryle –
Love that leads the way – Amy Carmichael
Give me the love that leads the way
The faith that nothing can dismay
The hope no disappointments tire
The passion that will burn like fire
Let me not sink to be a clod
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God!”
– Amy Carmichael –