Pride leads the list of things that God despises. "These six things the LORD hates, yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, a lying tongue" (Proverbs 6:16-17). God wants our lives to be edified; pride is destructive. "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall" (Proverbs 16:18). The Lord desires that people be established in truth; pride is deceptive. "The pride of your heart has deceived you" (Obadiah v. 3). It is God's will that we grow in things that are honorable; pride brings disgrace. "When pride comes, then comes shame" (Proverbs 11:2). Our Lord does not want His name dishonored or our lives destroyed by pride.
Deserts unclutter the soul. Like sickness, it keeps you still.
God looks at you with love and asks you to set something aside for a closer walk with Him.
"God Himself is the power that makes prayer work."
“God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.” —A.W. Tozer
Counterfeit Christianity is always safe. Real Christianity is always in peril.
Barclay
I charge you never to give up the old doctrine of the blood of Christ, the complete satisfaction which that atoning blood made for sin, and the impossibility of being saved except by that blood.
Your relationship with God should allow others to see the goodness, kindness, and love of Christ in you!
We rejoice not because we have done enough but because Christ has done enough.
—Sinclair Ferguson
We are never more like our Heavenly Father than when we love our enemies.
God does not put heavy burdens on weak shoulders. God educates and tests our faith by trials that increase in proportion to our faith. Spurgeon
Too many people want a God that will change their eternity, but not change their life.
It is not needful that I should be rich, but it is imperative for me to be pure.
—Charles H. Spurgeon
Obeying God when you don't feel like it isn't legalism, it's obedience.
Myriads of professing Christians nowadays seem utterly unable to distinguish things that differ. Like people afflicted with color blindness — they are incapable of discerning what is true and what is false, what is sound and what is unsound. -
If you're afraid of ever offending anyone, don't become a preacher. If you love offending people, don't become a preacher.
I am not permitted to let my love be so merciful as to tolerate and endure false doctrine.
Martin Luther
“The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart must now be trampled under his feet.” —
William Gurnall, “The Christian in Complete Armor”
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense. Paul Washer
There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction. —
Thomas Brooks
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