God does not need your permission to do anything.
You should be earnest in wrestling with a dull and hard heart.
Superficial religion will always be fashionable because it does not require self-denial
- Charles Spurgeon
"There is no safety for us except in close communion with Christ." -
Charles Spurgeon
Maranatha!
[L]et me press it upon every Christian here not to listen to that insinuation of the devil, that when he has sinned he ought then to give up the belief that he is a child of God. - Charles Spurgeon
Great love will spring out of great forgiveness. —
Puritan John Owen, Exposition Upon Psalm CXXX, Works 6:396
What makes this universe a cosmos, rather than chaos, is that the Lord Jesus Christ is holding it all together.
We know but little of true Christianity, if we do not feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people. -J.C. Ryle
"There will be three effects of nearness to Jesus: 1. humility 2. happiness 3. holiness." —
Charles Spurgeon
"Your weakness is your strength, your strength is your weakness. Be nothing, for only so can you be anything. Be poor in spirit, for only so can you be rich towards God." -
Charles Spurgeon
God doesn’t always call the most qualified person to do His work. He is not always looking for ability, just availability. Chuck Smith
[The way of Jesus] is self-validating to anyone who will openly and persistently put it into practice. The Spirit of the Disciplines tries to show how this may be done in our day.
The Spirit of the Disciplines
"I do believe that as long as we have a grain of self-sufficiency, we never trust in the All-sufficient." - Charles Spurgeon
Love the past. Live the future. Come Holy Spirit! We are a grateful people
The new person and the new world for which humanity constantly seeks is the overriding theme of biblical writings, culminating in the person and Kingdom of Jesus.
The Spirit of the Disciplines
"There was never yet a saint blamed for possessing too much faith; there was never such a thing known as a child of God who was scolded by the Divine Father for having placed too implicit reliance upon his promise." - Charles Spurgeon
Don't be deceived, saints. Jesus is God in the flesh. Fully God and fully man. He is our salvation, our last Adam. He alone is the propitiation for our sins. Jesus reveals His nature from Genesis to Revelation. He is Truth, and his word is truth.
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.” - C.S. Lewis
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