Richard Baxter
08/02/18 21:13 Filed in: Salvation
“Oh if you have the hearts of Christians or of men in you, let them yearn toward your poor ignorant, ungodly neighbors. Alas, there is but a step betwixt them and death and hell; many hundred diseases are waiting ready to seize on them, and if they die unregenerate, they are lost forever. Have you hearts of rock, that cannot pity men in such a case as this? If you believe not the Word of God, and the danger of sinners, why are you Christians yourselves? If you do believe it, why do you not bestir yourself to the helping of others? Do you not care who is damned, so you be saved? If so, you have sufficient cause to pity yourselves, for it is a frame of spirit utterly inconsistent with grace. . . . Dost thou live close by them, or meet them in the streets, or labour with them, or travel with them, or sit and talk with them, and say nothing to them of their souls or life to come? If their houses were on fire, thou wouldst run and help them; and wilt thou not help them when their souls are almost at the fire of hell?"
- Richard Baxter
- Richard Baxter
Timothy Keller
08/02/18 21:13 Filed in: Salvation
"Sometimes people approach me and say, “I really struggle with this aspect of Christian teaching. I like this part of Christian belief, but I don’t think I can accept that part.” I usually respond: “If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.” […] we can’t live our lives any way we want. It also meant we don’t have to be afraid of anything, not Roman swords, not cancer, nothing. If Jesus rose from the dead, it changes everything."
- Timothy Keller
- Timothy Keller
Keith Green
08/02/18 21:12 Filed in: Salvation
I believe with all my heart that Jesus would be ashamed of most of the "gospel" messages and sermons that are being preached today, mainly because they lack almost every major point He Himself preached on. (Mark 8:38; Rom. 1:16; II Tim. 1:8) How dare we try to change the Gospel. We remove most of its vital parts, and replace them with artificial limbs of our own. (Gal. 1:6-7)
- Keith Green
- Keith Green
Robert Murry M'Cheyne
08/02/18 21:11 Filed in: Salvation
"I am concerned for the poor but more for you. I know not what Christ will say to you in the great day... I fear there are many hearing me who may know well that they are not Christians because they do not love to give. To give largely and liberally, not grudgingly at all, requires a new heart; an old heart would rather part with its life-blood than its money. Oh my friends! Enjoy your money: make the most of it; give none away; enjoy it quickly for I can tell you, you will be beggars throughout eternity"
- Robert Murry M'Cheyne, as quoted in John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life (Wheaton, Il: Crossway, 2003) p105.
- Robert Murry M'Cheyne, as quoted in John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life (Wheaton, Il: Crossway, 2003) p105.
Arthur W. Pink
08/02/18 21:11 Filed in: Salvation
The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day "evangelist." He announces a Savior from hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness. The very first thing said of Him in the New Testament is, "Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people (not "from the wrath to come," but) from their sins." (Matt. 1:21) Christ is a Savior for those realizing something of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, who feel the awful burden of it on their conscience, who loathe themselves for it, who long to be freed from its terrible dominion; and a Savior for no others. Were He to "save from hell" those still in love with sin, He would be a Minister of sin, condoning their wickedness and siding with them against God. What an unspeakably horrible and blasphemous thing with which to charge the Holy One!
- Arthur W. Pink
- Arthur W. Pink
Timothy Keller
08/02/18 21:10 Filed in: Salvation
"I always say to my skeptical, secular friends that, even if they can’t believe in the resurrection, they should want it to be true.
Most of them care deeply about justice for the poor , alleviating hunger and disease, and caring for the environment. Yet many of them believe that the material world was caused by accident and that the world and everything in it will eventually simply burn up in the death of the sun. They find it discouraging that so few people care about justice without realizing that their own worldview undermines any motivation to make the world a better place. Why sacrifice for the needs of others if in the end nothing we do will make any difference?
If the resurrection of Jesus happened, however, that means there’s infinite hope and reason to pour ourselves out for the needs of the world."
- Timothy Keller
Most of them care deeply about justice for the poor , alleviating hunger and disease, and caring for the environment. Yet many of them believe that the material world was caused by accident and that the world and everything in it will eventually simply burn up in the death of the sun. They find it discouraging that so few people care about justice without realizing that their own worldview undermines any motivation to make the world a better place. Why sacrifice for the needs of others if in the end nothing we do will make any difference?
If the resurrection of Jesus happened, however, that means there’s infinite hope and reason to pour ourselves out for the needs of the world."
- Timothy Keller
David Platt
08/02/18 21:09 Filed in: Salvation
"It’s not possible to become a Christian, deny yourself, pick up your cross and follow Him and your life look the same as your affluent atheistic neighbor."
- David Platt
- David Platt
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
08/02/18 21:09 Filed in: Salvation
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to go to the forest to gather wood, saw it, and nail the planks together. Instead, teach them the desire for the sea,”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Darren Alexander
08/02/18 21:08 Filed in: Salvation
One thing I’ve come to understand, if salvation was as easy as asking Jesus to come into my heart and then just continue with my life, the Bible would not be a book, it would be a pamphlet.
- Darren Alexander, Michigan truck driver, 2012
- Darren Alexander, Michigan truck driver, 2012
Talmudic Law
08/02/18 20:56 Filed in: Prophecy
The Prophecy of Daniel for the coming of Christ in the 70 week prophecy is so accurate, it’s illegal for Jews to read (according to the Talmud Law; which is a Jewish law book) because it specifically points to Christ.
“May the bones of the hands and the bones of the fingers decay and decompose, of him who turns the pages of the book of Daniel, to find out the time of Daniel 9:24-27, and may his memory rot from off the face of the earth forever”
- Talmudic Law, p978, Section 2, Line 28
“May the bones of the hands and the bones of the fingers decay and decompose, of him who turns the pages of the book of Daniel, to find out the time of Daniel 9:24-27, and may his memory rot from off the face of the earth forever”
- Talmudic Law, p978, Section 2, Line 28
Dr. Francis Schaeffer
08/02/18 20:55 Filed in: Life
"We need a young generation and others who will be willing to stand in loving confrontation, but real confrontation, in contrast to the mentality of constant accommodation with the current forms of the world spirit as they surround us today."
- Dr. Francis Schaeffer
- Dr. Francis Schaeffer
David Platt
08/02/18 20:55 Filed in: Life
"Over 2,300 verses on money in the Bible. God's Word talks more about money than faith and prayer, more than Heaven and hell. Not one of us is going to be able to stand before God one day and give account for how we used the wealth He entrusted to us and say, 'Well you really didn't give me much in Your Word'. Maybe the problem isn't that the Word is not clear enough; maybe the problem is that it's too clear"
- David Platt
- David Platt
C.J. Mahaney
08/02/18 20:55 Filed in: Life
"Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world."
- C. J. Mahaney
- C. J. Mahaney
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:54 Filed in: Life
"We need to remember that it is possible to have some kind of external religious experience that immunizes you to the new birth, and puts you where you will never be born again, because you think you are already born again."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
John Piper
08/02/18 20:54 Filed in: Life
"What a person values the most is the thing that drives their joy"
- John Piper
- John Piper
Dr. Francis Schaeffer
08/02/18 20:54 Filed in: Life
"If we look at many of our evangelical leaders and at much of our evangelical literature we find the same destructive views on divorce, extreme feminism, and even homosexuality as we find in the world... Evangelicalism is deeply infiltrated with the world spirit of our age when it comes to marriage and sexual morality... There are those who call themselves evangelicals [Bible- believing Christians] and who are among evangelical leadership who completely deny the biblical pattern for male and female relationships in the home and church. "
- Dr Francis Schaeffer
- Dr Francis Schaeffer
Tim Kizziar
08/02/18 20:53 Filed in: Life
"Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter"
- Tim Kizziar
- Tim Kizziar
R.C. Sproul
08/02/18 20:53 Filed in: Life
"Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God"
- R.C. Sproul
- R.C. Sproul
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:52 Filed in: Life
"In that great and terrible day, there will be those white with shock when they find that they have depended upon a mental assent to Christianity instead of upon the miracle of the new birth."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
James H. Thom
08/02/18 20:52 Filed in: Life
"If you try to improve one person by being a good example, you're improving two. If you try to improve someone without being a good example, you won't improve anybody."
- James H. Thom - Edythe Draper
- James H. Thom - Edythe Draper
Croft M. Pentz
08/02/18 20:51 Filed in: Life
"There is no paradox more tragic than a high mentality and a low morality."
- Croft M. Pentz
- Croft M. Pentz
Francis Bacon
08/02/18 20:51 Filed in: Life
“People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.”
- Francis Bacon
- Francis Bacon
J. Gresham Machen
08/02/18 20:35 Filed in: Life
"In view of the lamentable defects of modern life, a type of religion certainly should not be commended simply because it is modern or condemned simply because it is old. On the contrary, the condition of mankind is such that one may well ask what it is that made the men of past generations so great and the men of the present generations so small."
- J. Gresham Machen ( Christianity and Liberalism , p. 15)
- J. Gresham Machen ( Christianity and Liberalism , p. 15)
Huss
08/02/18 20:34 Filed in: Life
“I write this letter in prison, and with my fettered hand, expecting my sentence of death tomorrow.... When, with the assistance of Jesus Christ, we shall meet again in the delicious peace of the future life, you will learn how merciful God has shown himself toward me—how effectually he has supported me in the midst of my temptations and trials.”
- Huss writes a letter to a friend.
- Huss writes a letter to a friend.
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:33 Filed in: Life
"The greater your contentment with your daily circumstances in this world, the greater your defection from the ranks of God's pilgrims en route to a city whose architect and builder is God Himself!"
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
John Seiden
08/02/18 20:33 Filed in: Life
Though I have been laborious in my literary inquiries, and have possessed myself of a great number of valuable books and manuscripts upon all ancient subjects, yet I can rest the happiness of my soul on none of them except the Holy Scriptures.
- John Selden
- John Selden
Richard Sibbes
08/02/18 20:32 Filed in: Life
The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves; that he is the only rich man, though never so poor in the world; that he is the only beautiful man, though outwardly never so deformed; that he is the only happy man in the midst of all his miseries.
- Richard Sibbes
- Richard Sibbes
Reformers
08/02/18 20:31 Filed in: Life
...seeing that Christ died for us all, which were dead when as we lived to ourselves (that is, while we were yet given to these earthly affections) we in like sort should consecrate our whole life which we have received of Him, to Him being endued with the holy Ghost to this end and purpose, that we should meditate upon nothing but that which is heavenly.
- Translators of the Bible on 2 Corinthians 5:14
- Translators of the Bible on 2 Corinthians 5:14
C.S. Lewis
08/02/18 20:31 Filed in: Life
"If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by an offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."
- C.S. Lewis
- C.S. Lewis
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:31 Filed in: Life
"The only person who is incurably sick is the one who thinks he or she is well."
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
Tim Keller
08/02/18 20:30 Filed in: Life
"The true God of your heart is what your thoughts effortlessly go to when nothing else is demanding your attention."
- Tim Keller
- Tim Keller
Billy Sunday
08/02/18 20:29 Filed in: Life
“You can't measure manhood with a tape line around his biceps.”
- Billy Sunday
- Billy Sunday
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:28 Filed in: Church
"The Holy Spirit did not come upon the disciples to unite them. The Holy Spirit came upon the disciples because they were already united."
- AW Tozer, Sermon, God's Great Promise To The Church
- AW Tozer, Sermon, God's Great Promise To The Church
Charles Spurgeon
08/02/18 20:28 Filed in: Church
“I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.”
- Charles H. Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
- Charles H. Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:27 Filed in: Church
"When leaders and members of a church do not have the genuine gifts of the Spirit, the true anointing of the Spirit, they are thrown back to depend upon human and natural capabilities. In that case, natural talents must come to the fore... in this realm of religious activity, talent runs the church. The gifts of the Spirit are not recognized and used as God intended... Part of the successful operation of that church depends upon men with business talents and part of it depends upon men with natural gifts as salesmen and politicians... Much of the religious activity we see in the churches is not the eternal working of the Eternal Spirit, but the mortal working of man's mortal mind, and that is raw tragedy."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:27 Filed in: Church
"In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:26 Filed in: Church
"The tree that is blown down in the storm is rotten in its heart or it wouldn't be blown down. And the church that falls because of persecution is a church that was dead before it fell."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:26 Filed in: Church
"Evangelical Christianity, at least in the United States, is now tragically below the New Testament standard. Worldliness is an accepted part of our way of life."
- AW Tozer, The Warfare Of The Spirit
- AW Tozer, The Warfare Of The Spirit
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:25 Filed in: Church
"The popular notion that the first obligation of the church is to spread the gospel to the uttermost parts of the earth is false. Her first obligation is to be spiritually worthy to spread it... To spread an effete, degenerate brand of Christianity to pagan lands is not to fulfill the commandment of Christ or to discharge our obligation to the heathen."
- AW Tozer, The Warfare Of The Spirit
- AW Tozer, The Warfare Of The Spirit
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:24 Filed in: Church
"There isn't anything quite so chilling, quite so disheartening as a man without the Holy Spirit preaching about the Holy Spirit."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
Billy Sunday
08/02/18 20:24 Filed in: Church
“Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God's Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I'll quit preaching.”
- Billy Sunday
- Billy Sunday
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:23 Filed in: Church
"The church and the world have become so mixed up that it is hard to tell one from the other."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
John MacArthur
08/02/18 20:23 Filed in: Church
There’s a serious defect in a so-called minister content to be proud of assembling non-believers and calling them a church. Something deeply wrong there. Modern evangelicalism seems to exhaust every imaginable and unimaginable means to attract and collect non-Christians into a building and then call it a church and call it church growth. Maybe there’s a better way to identify these places, let’s just call them non-churches.
- John MacArthur
- John MacArthur
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:22 Filed in: Church
"What the combined forces of hell can't do, the church can do. Love of money, love of the world, unconfessed iniquity, private sins that no one dreams we have -- these are destroying the Church of Christ."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
Charles Spurgeon
08/02/18 20:21 Filed in: Church
The Holy Ghost will only bless in conformity with His own set purpose. Our Lord explains what that purpose is: ‘He shall glorify Me.’ He has come forth for this grand end, and He will not put up with anything short of it. If then, we do not preach Christ, what is the Holy Ghost to do with our preaching? If we do not make the Lord Jesus glorious; if we do not lift Him high in the esteem of men, if we do not labour to make Him King of kings, and Lord of lords; we shall not have the Holy Spirit with us. Vain will be rhetoric, music, architecture, energy, and social status: if our own design be not to magnify the Lord Jesus, we shall work alone and in vain
- Charles Spurgeon The Greatest Fight in the World, 77-78
- Charles Spurgeon The Greatest Fight in the World, 77-78
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:21 Filed in: Church
"To great sections of the Church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the `program.' This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us... Sound Bible exposition is an imperative must in the Church of the living God. Without it no church can be a New Testament church in any strict meaning of that term. But exposition may be carried on in such way as to leave the hearers devoid of any true spiritual nourishment whatever. For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself...."
- The Pursuit of God; Preface, 1948; A.W. Tower
- The Pursuit of God; Preface, 1948; A.W. Tower
C.T. Stud
08/02/18 20:20 Filed in: Church
"When indeed shall we see a real Church Militant here upon the earth? Christs call is to feed the hungry, not the full; to save the lost, not the stiff-necked; not to call the scoffers, but sinners to repentance; not to build and furnish comfortable chapels, churches, and cathedrals at home in which to rock Christian professors to sleep by means of clever essays, stereotyped prayers and artistic musical performances, but to raise living churches of souls among the destitute, to capture men from the devils clutches and snatch them from the very jaws of hell, to enlist and train them for Jesus, and make them into an Almighty Army of God. But this can only be accomplished by a red-hot, unconventional, unfettered Holy Ghost religion, where neither Church nor State, neither man nor traditions are worshipped or preached, but only Christ and Him crucified. Not to confess Christ by fancy collars, church steeples or rich embroidered altar-cloths, but by reckless sacrifice and heroism in the foremost trenches…”
- CT Studd
- CT Studd
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:19 Filed in: Church
"It can be fairly said that the institutional church is largely known in the world as an organization and not as a living organism. The institutional church offers many good things to its members, but it does not necessarily recognize the true glory of Christ's life within. It lives and thrives on sociability, amusements, group activities -- things that may be innocent and pleasant and nice but which lack the glories of the church of the living God."
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
Martin Luther
08/02/18 20:19 Filed in: Church
"A religion that gives nothing, cost nothin, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing"
- Martin Luther
- Martin Luther
Soren Kierkegaard
08/02/18 20:18 Filed in: Church
“The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament…”
- Soren Kierkegaard
- Soren Kierkegaard
A.W. Tozerc
08/02/18 20:17 Filed in: Christian Walk
"No one can know truth except those who obey truth."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
B.J. Miller
08/02/18 20:16 Filed in: Christian Walk
It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing it.
- B J Miller
- B J Miller
Henry Blackaby
08/02/18 20:15 Filed in: Christian Walk
God's commands are designed to guide you to life's very best. You will not obey Him, if you do not believe Him and trust Him. You cannot believe Him if you do not love Him. You cannot love Him unless you know Him.
- Henry Blackaby
- Henry Blackaby
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:15 Filed in: Christian Walk
"A Christian is no Christian until he is all Christian, until he has reached the point of no return."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
Catherine Marshall
08/02/18 20:14 Filed in: Christian Walk
One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all - indeed, pay no attention whatever to His commandments and His will for one's life. One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.
- Catherine Marshall
- Catherine Marshall
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:14 Filed in: Christian Walk
"I believe in Christian charity, but I don't believe in Christian tolerance... When we become so tolerate that we lead people into mental fog and spiritual darkness, we are not acting like Christians; we are acting like cowards!"
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:13 Filed in: Christian Walk
"Jesus will never qualify or compromise anything he has said."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:12 Filed in: Christian Walk
"I think the difference is in the emphasis of the major miracle which we ought to expect in genuine Christian conversion. Those old-timers would not have believed if a major miracle had not taken place. They would never have been willing to accept a pale and apologetic kind of believing on the Son of God. They insisted on a miracle taking place within the human breast. They knew what Peter meant when he said that the Lord God has begotten us unto a living hope."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:12 Filed in: Christian Walk
"Let me solemnly tell you that the Holy Ghost never works with mere talent... much that passes for the gospel in our day is very little more than a mild case of orthodox religion grafted onto a heart that is sold out to the world in its pleasures and tastes and ambitions."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:11 Filed in: Christian Walk
"strength to resist evil is best gained by aggressive service"
- AW Tozer, The Acts of the Apostles
- AW Tozer, The Acts of the Apostles
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:11 Filed in: Christian Walk
"I hear people testify that they give their tithe because God makes their nine-tenths go farther than the ten-tenths. That is not spirituality; that is just plain business. I insist that it is a dangerous thing to associate the working of God with our prosperity and success down here."
- AW Tozer, I Talk Back To The Devil
- AW Tozer, I Talk Back To The Devil
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:10 Filed in: Christian Walk
"The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only."
- A. W. Tozer
- A. W. Tozer
Leighton Ford
08/02/18 20:09 Filed in: Christian Walk
"God loves us the way we are, but he loves us too much to leave us that way."
- Leighton Ford
- Leighton Ford
Lisa Barry
08/02/18 20:09 Filed in: Christian Walk
It's easy to follow when we want to go where the leader is taking us, but what about when He takes a turn we're not in favour of?
- Lisa Barry
- Lisa Barry
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:09 Filed in: Christian Walk
"The Bible has very few kind things to say about money and earthly possessions and it is most frank in its expressions against the heaping up of treasures."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
Henry Heintz
08/02/18 20:08 Filed in: Christian Walk
"During his 1960 presidential campaign, John F. Kennedy often closed his speeches with the story of Colonel Davenport, the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives. One day in 1789, the sky of Hartford darkened ominously, and some of the representatives, glancing out the windows, feared the end was at hand. Quelling a clamor for immediate adjournment, Davenport rose and said, "The Day of Judgement is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. Therefore, I wish that candles be brought." Rather than fearing what is to come, we are to be faithful till Christ returns. Instead of fearing the dark, we're to be lights as we watch and wait."
- Henry Heintz
- Henry Heintz
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:07 Filed in: Christian Walk
"If the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cure a man of dishonesty, it cannot guarantee his entrance into the kingdom of heaven."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
Croft M. Pentz
08/02/18 20:07 Filed in: Christian Walk
"Trim your lamp often so that it will give more light and less smoke."
- Croft M. Pentz
- Croft M. Pentz
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:06 Filed in: Christian Walk
"Some people in reading the Bible say they cannot understand why Elijah and other men had such active power with the living God. It is quite simple. God heard Elijah because Elijah had heard God. God did according the word of Elijah because Elijah had done according to the word of God. You cannot separate the two."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
Billy Graham
08/02/18 20:06 Filed in: Christian Walk
"A compass is narrow-minded-it always points to the magnetic north. It seems that is a very narrow view, but a compass is not broad-minded. If it were, all the ships at sea and all the planes in the air would be in danger. We must discipline ourselves, personally, to fight any deviation from the course Jesus set for us. We cannot be tolerant of any other course. To deviate is to sin."
- Billy Graham
- Billy Graham
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:05 Filed in: Christian Walk
"If you are going to heaven, you had better begin to live like it now, and if you are going to die like a Christian, you had better live like a Christian now."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
08/02/18 20:04 Filed in: Christian Walk
Christianity is not a voice in the wilderness, but a life in the world. It is not an idea in the air but feet on the ground going God's way. It is not an exotic to be kept under glass, but a hardy plant to bear twelve months of fruits in all kinds of weather. Fidelity to duty is its root and branch. Nothing we can say to the Lord, no calling Him by great or dear names, can take the place of the plain doing of His will. We may cry out about the beauty of eating bread with Him in His kingdom, but it is wasted breath and a rootless hope unless we plow and plant in His kingdom here and now. To remember Him at His table and to forget Him at ours, is to have invested in bad securities. There is no substitute for plain, every-day goodness.
- Maltbie Davenport (Mattie D) Babcock
- Maltbie Davenport (Mattie D) Babcock
John Bevere
08/02/18 20:03 Filed in: Christian Walk
No mortal man or devil can supersede the will of God for your life. If you lay hold of this truth, it will set you free. But there is only one person who can get you out of the will of God and that person is you.
- John Bevere
- John Bevere
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:02 Filed in: Christian Walk
"All of the Christians I meet who are amounting to anything for God are Christians who are very much out of key with their age - very, very much out of tune with their generation... If you can fit into it too comfortably, I am forced to wonder whether the miracle has ever been wrought in your life."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
Robert Murry M'Cheyne
08/02/18 20:02 Filed in: Christian Walk
"I am concerned for the poor but more for you. I know not what Christ will say to you in the great day... I fear there are many hearing me who may know well that they are not Christians because they do not love to give. To give largely and liberally, not grudgingly at all, requires a new heart; an old heart would rather part with its life-blood than its money. Oh my friends! Enjoy your money: make the most of it; give none away; enjoy it quickly for I can tell you, you will be beggars throughout eternity"
- Robert Murry M'Cheyne, as quoted in John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life (Wheaton, Il: Crossway, 2003) p105.
- Robert Murry M'Cheyne, as quoted in John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life (Wheaton, Il: Crossway, 2003) p105.
Billy Sunday
08/02/18 20:01 Filed in: Christian Walk
"If you have no joy in your religion, there’s a leak in your Christianity."
- Billy Sunday
- Billy Sunday
C.J. Mahaney
08/02/18 20:01 Filed in: Christian Walk
Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world.
- C. J. Mahaney
- C. J. Mahaney
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:00 Filed in: Christian Walk
"No oriental monarch ever ruled his cowering subjects with any more cruel tyranny than things, visible things, audible things, tangible things, rule mankind... It seems incredible that we who were made for many worlds should accept this one world as our ultimate home."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
Richard Baxter
08/02/18 20:00 Filed in: Christian Walk
“Oh if you have the hearts of Christians or of men in you, let them yearn toward your poor ignorant, ungodly neighbors. Alas, there is but a step betwixt them and death and hell; many hundred diseases are waiting ready to seize on them, and if they die unregenerate, they are lost forever. Have you hearts of rock, that cannot pity men in such a case as this? If you believe not the Word of God, and the danger of sinners, why are you Christians yourselves? If you do believe it, why do you not bestir yourself to the helping of others? Do you not care who is damned, so you be saved? If so, you have sufficient cause to pity yourselves, for it is a frame of spirit utterly inconsistent with grace. . . . Dost thou live close by them, or meet them in the streets, or labour with them, or travel with them, or sit and talk with them, and say nothing to them of their souls or life to come? If their houses were on fire, thou wouldst run and help them; and wilt thou not help them when their souls are almost at the fire of hell?"
- Richard Baxter
- Richard Baxter
Paul Tripp
08/02/18 19:59 Filed in: Christian Walk
If Christ does not reign over the mundane events in our lives, He does not reign at all.
- Paul Tripp
- Paul Tripp
Jim Elliot
08/02/18 19:57 Filed in: Christian Walk
Rest in this-it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call, or whatever you want to call it. It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond, or what have you... The sound of "gentle stillness" after all the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God.
- Jim Elliot
- Jim Elliot
A.W. Tozerc
08/02/18 19:57 Filed in: Christian Walk
"The Bible links faith to expression and faith that never gets expression is not a Bible faith... You say, 'Well, I worship God in my heart.' I wonder if you do. I wonder if you are simply just excusing the fact that you haven't generated enough spiritual heat to get your mouth open."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
Frederic D. Huntington
08/02/18 19:56 Filed in: Christian Walk
"It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the Gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted, prosperity"
- Frederic D. Huntington, Forum magazine, 1890
- Frederic D. Huntington, Forum magazine, 1890
Billy Sunday
08/02/18 19:55 Filed in: Christian Walk
“The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.”
- Billy Sunday
- Billy Sunday
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 19:54 Filed in: Christian Walk
"Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined."
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
Elizabeth Eliot
08/02/18 19:54 Filed in: Christian Walk
I really don't think ... you are in a bargaining position with God. He is the Master. He is the Commanding Officer. It is not for you to have input. It is simply for you to accept the orders as the orders are given.
- Elisabeth Elliot
- Elisabeth Elliot
Tom Marshall
08/02/18 19:53 Filed in: Christian Walk
If we want the Word of God to have authority in our life, there is only one way - obey it. If we want the Holy Spirit to have authority in our life, there is only one way - Obey Him. If we always obey impulses of fear or doubt or resentment, what will have authority over our minds? Fear, and doubt and resentment.
- Tom Marshall
- Tom Marshall
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 19:53 Filed in: Christian Walk
"We have religion without guilt, and religion without guilt just tries to make God a big pal of man. But religion without guilt is a religion that cannot escape hell for it deceives and finally destroys all who are a part of it."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
Martin Luther
08/02/18 19:52 Filed in: Christian Walk
"For as soon as God's Word becomes known through you, the devil will afflict you will make a real doctor of you, and will teach you by his temptations to seek and to love God's Word. For I myself ... owe my papists many thanks for so beating, pressing, and frightening me through the devil's raging that they have turned me into a fairly good theologian, driving me to a goal I should never have reached"
- Martin Luther
- Martin Luther
C.S. Lewis
08/02/18 19:51 Filed in: Christian Walk
"If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of they other world that they ahve become so ineffective in this"
- C.S. Lewis
- C.S. Lewis
Billy Sunday
08/02/18 19:50 Filed in: Christian Walk
“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
- Billy Sunday
- Billy Sunday
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 19:49 Filed in: Christian Walk
"There is so little filling of our vessels these days because there is so very little of emptying."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
David Platt
08/02/18 19:30 Filed in: Christian Walk
"It’s not possible to become a Christian, deny yourself, pick up your cross and follow Him and your life look the same as your affluent atheistic neighbor."
- David Platt
- David Platt
Hannah Whitall Smith
08/02/18 19:28 Filed in: Christian Walk
If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.
- Hannah Whitall Smith
- Hannah Whitall Smith
Charles Spurgeon
08/02/18 19:28 Filed in: Christian Walk
"When we are tender of heart and careful in thought, lip, and life to honor our Lord Jesus, then we receive tokens of His love without number. If we desire to perpetuate such bliss we must perpetuate holiness."
- Charles Spurgeon
- Charles Spurgeon
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 19:27 Filed in: Christian Walk
"If those who call themselves the people of God would give up their carnality and worldly-mindedness, if they would live with the reality that Jesus is victor at the heavenly controls, they could be the kind of New Testament church that makes glad the heart of God. There would be such an overflow of the Holy Spirit's gifts and graces that their spirituality would be effective in every contact and activity, just as it was in New Testament times."
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
David Platt
08/02/18 19:27 Filed in: Christian Walk
"Over 2,300 verses on money in the Bible. God's Word talks more about money than faith and prayer, more than Heaven and hell. Not one of us is going to be able to stand before God one day and give account for how we used the wealth He entrusted to us and say, 'Well you really didn't give me much in Your Word'. Maybe the problem isn't that the Word is not clear enough; maybe the problem is that it's too clear"
- David Platt
- David Platt
Francis Bacon
08/02/18 19:26 Filed in: Christian Walk
“It is not what men eat but what they digest that makes them strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; not what we preach but what we practice that makes us Christians.”
- Francis Bacon
- Francis Bacon
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 19:25 Filed in: Christian Walk
The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!"
- A. W. Tozer
- A. W. Tozer
Billy Sunday
08/02/18 19:24 Filed in: Christian Walk
“The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap.”
- Billy Sunday
- Billy Sunday