“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” - C.S. Lewis
“God's actions are occasionally mysterious, but they are always righteous.” — George Swinnock
“I have a great need for Christ; I have a great Christ for my need.” — C.H. Spurgeon “A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.” -Thomas Watson
“Whenever we take the Bible in our hands, when we come to hear the word… It is impudence and presumption to come to these things without lifting up our souls to God.” — Richard Sibbes
“The word is to be esteemed, valued, and sought after, as our daily food.” John Owen, 20:601
It is monstrous impudence for us to compare ourselves with God; to compare a weak creature to the almighty Creator is to compare crookedness to straightness or darkness to light.” — George Swinnock
“Simply put, the ‘headship and submission’ texts should not turn husbands into tyrants and wives into domestic doormats. Homes should not become rigid, suffocating environments…” — D. Michael Clary @dmichaelclary “[God] speaks to all men through the voice of conscience. He speaks through the majestic words which all but the most degraded men utter: ‘I ought.’ He speaks through the majesty of the moral law. A law implies a lawgiver. Conscience testifies of God.” - J. Gresham Machen
"It must not be tolerated that Christ should be unknown through our silence." — Charles Spurgeon
The God of popular religion is not holy. R.C. Sproul
“If you listen to only one preacher, you become a clone. If you listen to two, you become confused. If you listen to fifty, you’re on the edge of wisdom and beginning to become yourself.” - D.A. Carson
"Because life is a gift, the living must all praise God and not themselves." — Charles Spurgeon
"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing." -Martin Luther.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. C. S. Lewis
"The Holy Spirit is not exhausted. His power is not lessened in any way whatever." — Charles Spurgeon
The great business of a saint’s life is to be doing things that enlarge the kingdom of heaven. —William Gurnall (1616-1679) The Christian in Complete Armour, 1:227 Go [to] the universities, and you will find that those that should be as Nazarites consecrated to God, live as those that have vowed and consecrated themselves to Satan. —Thomas Manton, Works 6:89
"Teacher of morality, do your best, but what man really needs for eternity is the gospel." — Charles Spurgeon
Most of the so-called evangelism of our day is a grief to genuine Christians -A.W. Pink - The Old Testament is full of copies and shadows... Jesus is the original and the reality. -Sinclair Ferguson -
"He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart." -Thomas Brooks "Life is a gift from heaven, a gift of undeserved love and sovereign grace." — Charles Spurgeon
"Live entirely upon Christ. Living by feelings is a deadly form of life." — Charles Spurgeon
Let the world, rather than God, be offended with me. Martin Luther
"To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in the world." — Charles Spurgeon Experience is the food of all grace, which it grows and thrives upon. Every taste that faith obtains of divine love and grace, or how gracious the Lord is, adds to its measure and stature. - John Owen
"When Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he effected his vast discoveries, he replied, 'By thinking continually unto them.'" -James W. Alexander.
"The righteous carves his name upon the rock, but the wicked writes his remembrance in the sand." — Charles Spurgeon
"Be of good cheer, then, tried and depressed believer, and apply this sacred remedy to thyself, remember the Lord, refer thy case to him, and look to him for all that thou needest." - Charles Spurgeon
God created our souls to be satisfied only with the divine everlastingness of the Word made flesh. -Tozer
Plan to contribute liberally to the missionary cause, and also act as a home missionary by earnestly seeking the conversion to Christ of your friends & neighbors. -Hugh Crossley (1895)
" It is time that we stop misplacing our trust in people and start properly placing our trust where the evidence tells us it should have been in the first place: in Christ." —Luke Nix
When I choose to be transparent about my struggles, I position myself to receive and give comfort and encouragement to others. It sounds so simple, doesn't it? It is - if we choose to be transparent. Don't be IFy, be Willing...
Transparency is not revenge in disguise nor does it give us permission to unload every problem we have on everyone we meet. Transparency is being willing to let others see who we really are and what is really going on in our heart and life.
Transparency is not a spiritual license to rip someone apart or tell them off. I know what it is like to take an emotional risk only to be blasted under the guise of "just being honest."
Every Christian should feel that he has God's seal upon him-and he should be able to say with Paul, "From henceforth let no man trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."
The parent’s life is the child’s copybook.
~John Partridge~
[British preacher Charles Haddon] Spurgeon [1834-1992] was a character. His style was so loose he was criticized again and again for bordering on frivolity in the Tabernacle pulpit.
Certain incensed fellow clergymen railed against his habit of introducing humor into his sermons. With a twinkle in his eye, he once replied: "If only you knew how much I hold back, you would commend me....This preacher thinks it less a crime to cause a momentary laughter than a half-hour of profound slumber."
Too often mankind looks upon God's mercy as recognition or reward for the work we've done. We think our efforts cause God to look upon us with more favor. However, if God rewarded our desire or effort with His Mercy, then we would be filled with pride because of what we had accomplished. The election of God is not something we can run for, earn or win. It does not depend on anything we do.
“We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.” Jim Rohn
“To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract.” Jim Rohn
“What you become directly influences what you get.” Jim Rohn
“The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.” Jim Rohn
“Don't say, ‘If I could, I would.’ Say, ‘If I can, I will.’” – Jim Rohn
“The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.” – Jim Rohn
“Transformation isn’t change, but finding the essence of who we are”
Mary Manin-Morrissey
Tony Evans
Don't magnify your problem. Magnify your God.
I honour what is in alignment with my truth, and let all the rest go.
Sidonie Bouchet
“People need people. Anyone can look up answers online or dig around in books and find pithy statements of cheer and cleverness. But to really develop as people, we need each other.” -Doug Bender,
Confession isn't a punishment for sin; it’s an isolation of sin so it can be exposed and extracted.
Satan traffics in guilt and will not give up without a fight. Exercise your authority as a child of God. Tell guilt where to go. IN THE NAME OF JESUS!
We have one business on earth—to save souls.
~John Wesley~
Spend time in God's Word. Read the Bible and let His promises sink deeply into your soul. Take time to meditate in the Scripture and jot down those things that the Bible says to do or to be. The more we know what the Bible says, the more we know how to live.
If you are feeding upon God’s Word and waiting upon Him to fill you with the Holy Spirit, then you will have victory in the Lord. God wants us to be victors, not victims; to grow, not grovel; to soar, not sink; to overcome, not to be overwhelmed.
~William A. Ward~
self-confidence is a trap for fools.
By getting rid of that misplaced trust and placing our full confidence in the Lord as our faithful Provider, we will begin to experience the type of prosperity that God promises to those who love him.
When we are greedy, we can only see the world from a selfish perspective. Every person is looked at like a prospect, as someone who can do something for me.
C.S. Lewis said, “ I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
Faith will lead you where you cannot walk. Reason has never been a mountain climber.
~E. W. Kenyon~
If you are walking in close fellowship with God, and His Word is at home in your heart, then you will pray for things that bring God glory. If you are praying for self-indulgent things, then it would be doubtful that you are maintaining a living communion with Him and that His Word is at home in you.
Greg Laurie
It's good and right to love your spouse immensely, but we absolutely must love God most.
When we place undue pressure on our spouses for our joy, peace, and even love, we set them up for failure. They will inevitably fall short, and if we’re leaning on them for our security we’ll fall with them.
If we’re not full in Christ, we will have an immensely hard time being fulfilled by our spouse.
Nowhere does the Bible teach that sex in itself is a sin. But from Genesis to Revelation, the Bible condemns the wrong use of sex. ~Billy Graham~
Worship and giving thanks isn’t just a nice idea. It should be an important part of daily Christian life. God is great and mighty and worthy of all praise and thanksgiving!
Author Ron Jenson says, “To be wise is to be a craftsman at living, an artisan of life.”
Our responsibility is to receive what God is offering us, and to pray for teachable hearts, allowing our passions to reach their potential, governed by wisdom.
When I was in school we had fire drills and stop, drop, and roll. Now schools, churches, and corporations practice Lock the door lights out, and hide. As much as we don't want to admit it, this is the new normal.
Christians should not become unstable like the waves; they should be steady and on course. When they believe our God, there is tranquility, peace––no ripples, no waves. Christians should enjoy peace and rest, knowing their problems are in the mighty hands of God
Raul Ries
Leaders, our rhetoric is only as strong as our lifestyle . . . our charge is only as strong as our example. Let us teach our Timothys what life has taught us . . . how to keep our heads in all situations.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
~C.H. Spurgeon~
There is no other basis for the personality, morality, dignity, and value of man, save that it is founded in the fact of this personal, infinite, creator God.
Alistair Begg
Everyone wants to see the walls of Jericho come down but nobody wants to be the one who has to march around the walls.
Jason Robinson
Every precious diamond ever found isn’t worth a hill of beans compared to the treasure we have in Christ.
Ray Comfort
When we trust in the Lord, the glorious works of God are manifested in and through our lives "with power."
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