“The saved soul does not take temporary lodgings with Christ, but abides in him.” -
Charles Spurgeon
You won’t become a Saint by studying your Bible, you’ll become a Saint by living it.
“Of all the bad men, religious bad men are the worst.” -
C.S. Lewis
“If he will but come to Christ, he cannot be cast out on account of his sins; but his sins, which are many, shall all be forgiven him; he shall be pressed to the heart of everlasting love, and the kiss of pardon shall be imprinted upon his cheek.” - Charles Spurgeon
When you take the time to sit at the Lord’s feet, your purpose will become more evident. A purpose frees you up to be more creative, adventurous, and passionate about what you do because you know where you’re going and whom you’re following.
Ray Bentley
“Are you trusting in Jesus Christ alone? If so, you have come to him, and the promise in the text is yours: “Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” -
Charles Spurgeon
Our greatest trouble is our ignorance of God. –
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Worship is taking our affection off our idols and putting it on God.
A small leak will sink a great ship, and a small spark will kindle a great fire, and a little allowed sin in like manner will ruin an immortal soul. Take my advice, and never spare a little sin. -
JC Ryle
"Patience is better than immunity from suffering." -
John Howe.
"There is no fact which has been more fully demonstrated than this: that God hears prayers." — Charles Spurgeon
“One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.” -
C.S. Lewis
"Just as interpretation without proclamation in the Academy is fruitless, so proclamation without sound interpretation in the pulpit is rootless." -
Dennis E. Johnson
Where there is grace there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight. -
JC Ryle
In order to be known by other people, you have to show up as your true self. In order to show up as your true self, you have to face your wounds.
God wants the best of you for His Kingdom. God is always good, always loving, and always wants the best for you. Are you ready to heal and quit hiding behind Christian structures that have held you back? Are you ready to be so full of the Holy Spirit that He flows out of you in beauty and strength? Are you ready to be the true you that God intended for you to be?
Our lofty and holy God graciously revives the hearts of all who walk in humility and lowliness. "Though the LORD is on high, yet He regards the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar" (Psalm 138:6). Those who walk in pride experience quite a different response from the Lord.
They had a mission.
A purpose.
Not worrying about tomorrow
focused on following Jesus,
step by step, village to village, city to city, wherever He went.
God’s gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.
~A.W. Tozer~
If you want someone to follow Jesus, you must be a follower of Jesus yourself so you can show him or her what a living, breathing Christian looks like. Would you take voice lessons from someone who sings off key, or would you hire a fitness trainer who’s out of shape?
We are not meant to control our Christianity. Rather our Christianity is meant to control us. - Martyn Lloyd-Jones
"Blessed be God, His blood can cleanse us not only from all the evil that we see but what He sees. Many chambers within are unopened yet to us. We see but through the crevice; yet His blood gets entrance and drowns all." -
Lady Powerscourt.
"A vision of God is the end of boasting." — Charles Spurgeon
God knows us all; there is nothing we have either said or done but it is all in the mind of God.
How beautiful is the Bible! It is a necessary food.
Charles Spurgeon
Man is very prone generally to deceive themselves in this, that though they live wickedly, yet they shall die happily, and be saved gloriously. O monstrous folly and madness to imagine such things! —
Westminster Divine Anthony Burgess, Spiritual Refining, 1:212
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