The poorest person on earth is not the one without money. It is the one without JESUS.
Biblical humility isn't about self-deprecation or putting oneself down. It's about having the right view of oneself in relation to God and others and recognizing our constant need for God's grace and guidance.
"If you do not love God, you do not love him who is the holiest, and the purest, and the best." - Charles Spurgeon
The redeemed have gained more through the last Adam than they lost through the first Adam. -A.W. Pink
Let's pray that we may get ourselves out of the way and that Christ may be all in all.
DL Moody
“We have a responsibility: First to the truth, and secondly to this particular group of people.” - Alec Motyer
Temptation is a medicine for security; the more Satan tempts, the more the saints pray.
We cannot serve the Lord if we pick and choose our duties. He who enlists in the army of the Most High, surrenders his will to the discipline of the army and the bidding of the Captain.
Charles Spurgeon
The new birth always produces new life from a new heart with new affections.
"If you do not love God, it is certain that you do not love essential goodness, truth, justice, and purity." - Charles Spurgeon
There is a wide difference between understanding *the doctrine of the Scripture* as in the letter, and true knowledge of the mind of Christ.
It’s going to take men who know the power of God to fight against principalities and powers in the day in which we live.
Power in its various forms is a good gift from God to be used by his people for the ends of his kingdom. And like other good gifts, power is perilous when wielded improperly. The better the gift, the more perilous in the hands of sinners.
David Mathis, Workers For Your Joy, 224.
Believers who are assuredly freed from the 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 power of sin ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 power of sin.
—Puritan John Owen, Works 6:9
"God speaks to those who are prepared in their hearts to listen. Discern the voice from Heaven above the noisy din of earth's confusion." Billy Graham
Idlers are those who indulge in criticism of other people’s service and find themselves most happy when they can be pulling other men’s work to pieces.
Be still, put away the distractions; look and listen for God to speak to you.
Christ’s example teaches us how we are to deal with those with whom we disagree. Sometimes we must be forceful and sometimes we must be gentle—forceful with the wolves and gentle with Jesus’ lambs. R.C. Sproul
“We rarely understand the process, but God never fails to bring the results that are required for his glory and for our good.” —
Stephen Charnock, Divine Providence, 33.
The less you are like Jesus, the easier it is to become powerful, famous, and wealthy.
The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.
William Booth
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