"I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye."
-Oswald Chambers.
Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of every heresy.
JC Ryle
It was great, to speak the world from nothing; but far greater, to redeem sinners from misery. - John Newton
“Men see nothing but the calamity; the eyes of faith see God.”
“You must ask for God’s help. ... After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.” - C.S. Lewis
"The world will never know permanent peace until the Prince of Peace reigns on His rightful throne."
Billy Graham
It is not enough to have a song on your lips. You must also have a song in your heart. —
Fanny Crosby
He knew what we were before conversion...wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion...weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
JC Ryle
"You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation, but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective." —
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Satan gives Adam an apple and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose. —
Richard Sibbes (1577–1635)
“The true Christian is the only happy man because he has sources of happiness entirely independent of this world.” —J.C. Ryle
"Only one life, twill soon be past. Only what's done for Christ will last" ~
C.T. Studd
“Humble prayer will throw more light on your Bible than Poole, or Henry, or Scott, or Burkitt, or Bengel, or Alford, or Wordsworth, or Barnes, or Ellicott, or Lightfoot, or any commentary that ever was written” — J.C. Ryle
How far do you think we would be as a society if every great leader, entrepreneur, and inventor listened to those that told them “no?"
Not very far.
Never let someone stop you from moving forward.
Karen E. Quinones Miller.
The heart is a constantly yawning chasm; it wants everything, and even if it obtained everything, it would go on looking for still more. (Martin Luther)
Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent. Sin is the wound; repentance is the medicine. Sin is followed by shame; repentance is followed by boldness. Satan has overturned this order and given boldness to sin and shame to repentance. —
John Chrysostom (AD 347–407)
"For me, the teachings of Christ and my own personal accountability before God provide a framework in which I try to lead my life. I, like so many of you, have drawn great comfort in difficult times from Christ's words and example." —
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2000
“God is as able to send His Spirit today as He was at the day of Pentecost, but men are focused on ministers and not on God... Look away from man to God. Then He will pour out the Spirit, and He shall be all the glory.” — Robert Murray McCheyne
“Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.” - C.S. Lewis
"... when sin has driven God's elect to the farthest distance from him, yet his arm is long enough to reach them, and fetch them back again." ––
John Bunyan, All Loves Excelling, 15.
What God gives us on account of sanctification we are ready enough to reckon on the score of justification. We have so much of the Pharisees in us by nature, that it is sometimes well that our good is his from us. —
John Owen works 6:600
“And this, too, shall be our best comfort. God hath done it. What! shall we weep for what God hath done?” - Charles Spurgeon
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