There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted that Christ cannot remove.
Charles Spurgeon
C.S. Lewis reasoned that “a man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be [insane]… or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice… But, let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
God’s Word is pure and sure in spite of the devil, in spite of our fear, in spite of everything.
~R.A. Torrey~
The Lord says, "I'm with you, I'll never leave you, and I'll never forsake you. People might criticize and find fault with you, but I will see you through!
When we understand salvation comes by the Father's grace and is based upon our faith -- not by what we do or don't do -- then salvation is not something we are afraid of losing -- we are thereby freed from the bondage of obligated service. We serve because we love the Lord and are called...
“Despair is a greater sin than all the sins which provoke it, “ C.S. Lewis
God is sending forth His message of love, but you must tune in. You must be willing to listen and to receive His message and then obey it. ~Billy Graham~
Let this be to you the mark of true Gospel preaching––where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus. ~C.H. Spurgeon~
Heaven and earth, all ...the kings and princes of the world could not raise a fit dwelling place for God; yet, in the weak human soul, that keeps His Word, He willingly resides. ~Martin Luther~
Closed eyes, emotional music, promising that God has a wonderful plan for people’s lives…the modern gospel message is a betrayal of our commission and a victory for the enemy.
Ray Comfort
The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ. ~A.W. Tozer~
In these ordinary days of Ordinary Time, my hope and my peace, and my security rest in what I know to be the spectacle of God’s love for me through Christ’s birth, death, and resurrection. I carry the Passion with me in simple acts of eating, turning off the lights before going to bed, going to the mailbox, and paying the bills. Stay centered on who God is even when life seems blah...
“Emotionally healthy people understand the limits God has given them. They joyfully receive the one, two, seven, or ten talents God has so graciously distributed. As a result, they are not frenzied and covetous, trying to live a life God never intended.”
Scazzero, Peter, The Emotionally Healthy Church
(Zondervan, Grand Rapids Michigan, 2003) p. 132.
We have to be obedient all the time, not just when we are going through things and when we are not we do our own thing and expect God to be there for us when we act the fool.
God is never unrealistic about us. He knows us. He sees our hearts better than we can. But His love for us chose to pay for the dark and wicked side of human nature. When we are believers in the sacrifice of His Son, when we are cleansed by the blood Jesus shed on the cross, His view of us is filtered through His Son and His love, and He sees us as nothing less than saints.
Ray Bently
God's work never is dependent on only one man. If it is written, "then
Samuel died," it is also written "and David arose." God's work
may begin with a man but it never ends with one man. God
continues and sustains His work as He pleases. His workmen may
die; His work goes on.
Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow.
~D. L. Moody~
An elementary boy came home from tryouts for the school play. “Mommy, mommy” he announced, “I got a part. I’ve been chosen to sit in the audience and clap and cheer.” When you have a chance to clap and cheer, do you take it? If you do, your head is starting to fit your hat size. Proverbs 16:5 says, “The Lord despises pride.” So, get over yourself!
the church is not built on the talents of a few but many servants.
C.S. Lewis “Christ did not come to preach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at the bottom, had always known to be right. Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As Dr. Johnson said, ‘People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.' The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see."
--Mere Christianity, book 3, ch. 3
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