If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him. -
JC Ryle
Conversion consists of three parts.
There is in it a turning:
1. From the creature to God.
2. From self to Christ.
3. From sin to holiness. —
Thomas Manton, Works 11:391
Child of God, you cost Christ too much for Him to forget you.
Charles Spurgeon
“When you are arguing against God you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.” - C.S. Lewis
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines. — Samuel Rutherford
I preached myself, and the scholars came up and praised me. I preached Christ, and the sinners came up and thanked me. — Bernard of Clairvaux
“The Saviour can make our hearts leap for joy by reassuring us that we are written on the palms of his hands and that we shall be with him where he is.” -
Charles Spurgeon
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading. -
JC Ryle
The devil knows that a saint without a knowledge of the gospel is as vulnerable as an army without ammunition. —
William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 1:65
"To rely upon your own abilities as to be unwilling to learn from others is imbecility." —
Charles Spurgeon
The Holy Spirit
1. Wakens a person’s heart
2. Teaches a person’s mind
3. Leads to the Word
4. Convinces of sin
5. Draws to Christ
6. Sanctifies
7. Makes a person spiritually minded
8. Produces inward conflict
9 Makes a person love the brethren
10 Teaches a person to pray ~
Ryle
Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell. —
Thomas Watson
There is nothing accidental about salvation. —
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Following Jesus are a journey and a destination.
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one —and that one prayer is this; that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him. — Charles Spurgeon
When a believer looks at their love they say, “Surely I am condemned, for my love is so cold”. But if they had looked at Christ’s love, they would have said “No, never shall I be condemned.” Spurgeon
Six Steps of True Repentance
1) Sight of Sin
2) Sorrow for Sin
3) Confession to Sin
4) Shame for Sin
5) Hatred of Sin
6) Turning from Sin ––
Thomas Watson
He that had slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God. ––
John Owen
We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ’s steps, and let the world say what it likes. —J.C. Ryle
Brethren, as we believe Jesus to be the very center of the Christian religion, he who gets not to Christ gets not to true godliness at all.
Charles Spurgeon
"I with body and soul, both in life and death, am not my own, but belong to my faithful Saviour Jesus Christ; who, with His precious blood, has fully satisfied for all my sins." -
Heidelberg Catechism
Is the Bible the Word of God? Then mind that you do not neglect it. Read it: read it! Begin to read it this very day. What greater insult to God can a man be guilty of than to refuse to read the letter God sends him from heaven… -J C Ryle
"The gospel's power ought to penetrate the innermost affections of the heart, sink down into the soul, and inspire the whole man.” ––
John Calvin, A Little Book on the Christian Life, 13.
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