"...The true problem of evil is the problem of OUR evil. Filled with sin and morally guilty before God, the question we face is not how God can justify himself to us, but how can we be justified before him." - J.P. Moreland
"...The true problem of evil is the problem of OUR evil. Filled with sin and morally guilty before God, the question we face is not how God can justify himself to us, but how can we be justified before him. J.P. Moreland
"Hell is eternity in the presence of God. And, Heaven is eternity in the presence of God with a Mediator." - R. A. Finlayson
"Joy is love exultant, peace is love in repose, and long suffering is love enduring. It is all love, you see, a gentleness is love in society, and goodness is love in action, and faith is love on the battle-field, and meekness is love at school, and temperance is love in training." -D.L. Moody
"Holiness is the attribute which frees God, not only from evil itself, but from all appearance or suspicion of evil. If God were not holy, many of the things which God does would look unlike him: his justice and judgments would look not only like severity, but tyranny, were not it and they holy; his love in its conduct and behaviour to some people would look like fondness and respect of persons, but that it is holy; his patience would look like a toleration, if not approbation of sin, but that it is holy patience. Thus many acts of God, were it not for holiness, would appear as seemingly evil as they are really good, and would be as much suspected by all, as they are unjustly censured by some." Ralph Venning
Why does the Church stay indoors? They have a theology that has dwindled into a philosophy, in which there is no thrill of faith, no terror of doom and no concern for souls. Unbelief has put out the fires of passion, and worldliness garlands the altar of sacrifice with the tawdry glitter of unreality.
The Holy Ghost cannot conquer the world with unbelief, nor can He save the world with a worldly Church. He calls for a crusade, a campaign, and an adventure of saving passion. For this enterprise He wants a separated, sanctified and sacrificial people. -Samuel Chadwick
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
-John Adams
"Instincts make something attractive or repulsive to your appetites, but conscience makes something obligatory to your choice, no matter how your appetites feel about it." -Peter Kreeft
What man, to this day, hath been able to free himself from
that chain of death God clapped upon him for his revolt? And if he be too feeble
to rescue himself from a temporal, much less from an eternal death. -Stephen Charnock
"Christ didn’t come to make bad men good. He came to make dead men live!" - Leonard Ravenhill
There is a kind of omnipotency in prayer, as having an interest and prevalency with God's omnipotency. It hath loosed iron chains (Acts 16:25, 26); it hath opened iron gates (Acts 12:5-10); it hath unlocked the windows of heaven (1 Kings 18:41); it hath broken the bars of death (John 11:40, 43). Satan hath three titles given in the Scriptures, setting forth his malignity against the church of God: a dragon, to note his malice; a serpent, to note his subtlety; and a lion, to note his strength. But none of all these can stand before prayer. The greatest malice of Haman sinks under the prayer of Esther; the deepest policy, the counsel of Ahithophel, withers before the prayer of David; the largest army, a host of a thousand Ethiopians, run away like cowards before the prayer of Asa. -Edward Reynolds
"If Christ was not raised, His death was in vain, your faith in Him would be pointless, and your sins would still be counted against you with no hope of spiritual life." -John MacArthur
"Love is the works of love." - Søren Kierkegaard
"The 'atheist' can't find God for the same reason a thief can't find a policeman." --Anonymous
"It ill becomes us to sit at the feet of Infinite Wisdom determined to hold fast to our foregone conclusions. Nothing can be more insulting to God than to presume to examine His Word, professing a desire to learn His mind, when we have already settled to our own satisfaction what it will say...May such grace be vouchsafed to us all that we may ever present our minds to the Holy Spirit's teaching that only the impress may be left which God has designed. May our only desire be to hear 'What saith the Lord?'"-A.W. Pink
Charity and purity are the two garments of Christianity.-Charles Spurgeon
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. -Martin Luther King Jr.
"There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions." -G.K. Chesterton (1906)
"The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it." -A.W. Tozer
"That world outside there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity, it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity."— Leonard Ravenhill
"There are two attributes God will make to shine in
hell to the full; his wrath and his power (Rom. 9:22)."-Stephen Charnock
"One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed."— Leonard Ravenhill
"If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified." — Leonard Ravenhill
"An imitation of a Frenchman would not make me a Frenchman. I am a German and I would have to be “reborn” to be anything but what I am. And so in the Christian life. I must be born anew. That is why Christ took me with Himself down into the grave and brought me forth a “new creation.” He terminated my old life when there upon the Cross as Representative He died; and He imparted to me a new life when He arose from the grave." -F. J. Huegel
Paul never glamorized the gospel! It is not success, but sacrifice! It's not a glamous gospel ,but a bloody gospel, a gory gospel, and a sacrificial gospel! 5 minutes inside eternity and we will wish that we had sacrificed more!!! Wept more, bled more, grieved more, loved more, prayed more, given more!!! -Leonard Ravenhill
"There are two cities formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self." - St. Augustine
Rebels against an earthly prince may exceed him in strength, and be
more powerful than their sovereign; none can equal God, much less exceed him.
As none can exercise an act of hostility against him without his permissive will,
so none can struggle from under his hand without his positive will. -Stephen Charnock
One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying. -Catherine Marshall
"Any moment you may be cut down by the hand of death, and be hurried completely unprepared before the judgment seat of Christ." -Charles H. Spurgeon
"No one would find it difficult to die who died every day." -Charles H. Spurgeon
"I am crucified with Christ & it is no longer I who live but Christ who liveth in me..." is the greatest thing that could come across your lips on this side of eternity. -Leonard Ravenhill
"Gospel preachers nowadays preach the gospel of the Crucifixion, the Apostles preached the gospel of the Resurrection as well. (2 Tim. 2:8-Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead, according to my gospel.") The Crucifixion loses its meaning without the Resurrection. Without the Resurrection the death of Christ was only the heroic death of a noble martyr; with the Resurrection it is the atoning death the Son of God. It shows that death to
be of sufficient value to cover our sins, for it was the sacrifice of the Son of God." -R.A. Torrey
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire? - Corrie Ten Boom
"If weak in prayer, we are weak everywhere." -Leonard Ravenhill
"The fact that the Lake of Fire is denominated the 'Second Death' denotes the hopelessness of his situation. Just as the first death cuts him off forever from this world, so the second death cuts him off forever from God."-A.W. Pink
"If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself." - Martin Luther
To have found God and still pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too easily satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart. -A.W. Tozer
"We may rest assured that to reach heaven at last it needs something more than going to church regularly on Sundays and listening to preachers. The Word of God must be recieved into our hearts, and become the manspring of our conduct: it must produce practical impressions on our inner most being, that will appear in our outward behaviour. If it does not do this, it will only add to our condemnation on the day of judgement." -JC Ryle
You either serve God or self or sin. There are no other areas.
Some act as Jesus is there Savior, but still haven't made Him Lord! It's purely unscriptural! We ought to be blazing mad about this! 95% of the Christians in the nations are weak! God can't trust them with vision, He can't trust them with burden: You can't trust children with jewels... they have no sense of values! You can't trust a child with something that needs bravery, they are too timid! You can't trust them with a burden, you'll break them! - Leonard Ravenhill
Christianity is a life which grows out of truth.-Charles Spurgeon
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan. -John Bunyan
"If Jesus ever commanded us to do something that He was unable to equip us to accomplish, He would be a liar. And if we make our own inability a stumbling block or an excuse not to be obedient, it means that we are telling God that there is something which He has not yet taken into account." -Oswald Chambers
"The alter is used for: Sacrifice and death. Use it often, and do not cheapen it. When we will die we will rise in newness of life! Know the resurrection power of God, that same power with which God raised His only begotten Son —" -Leonard Ravenhill
"It is true that the judgment against your evil works has not yet been executed; the floods of God's vengeance have been withheld. Nevertheless, your guilt, in the meantime, is constantly increasing, and your are every day storing up more wrath for yourself (See Romans 2:5)." -Jonathan Edwards
"The old Pharisees were but babes in comparison to the modern: and the longer I live, and the more I reflect upon God and man--the Bible and the world--the more I am assured that all sectarianism is the offspring of hell." -Alexander Campbell
"The condition of the church may be very accurately guaged by its prayer meetings. so is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. if God be near a church, it must be praying, and if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be a slothfulness in prayer." Charles H. Spurgeon
"In the punishing of the wicked God vindicates His outraged majesty. Herein punishment differs from correction or discipline. Punishment is not designed for the good of the one who suffers it. It is intended for the enforcing of law and order; it is necessary for the preservation of government."A.W. Pink
"I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.” - John Wesley
"There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write damnation with your fingers." -Charles H. Spurgeon
"A Christlike sense of sonship will lead to a Christlike obedience." - Andrew Murray
There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying. -John G. Lake
"Someone asked, 'Will the heathen who have never heard the gospel be saved?' It is more a question with me whether we-- who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not-- can be saved." -Charles Spurgeon
A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive. - G. K. Chesterton
There is only one power that can withstand all the onslaught of all that is going on in this world. That is the church of Jesus Christ annointed by the Holy Spirit. - Leonard Ravenhill
Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening a mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. -G.K. Chesterton
"God makes it quite clear in His Word that He has only one answer to every human need; His Son, Jesus Christ." -Watchman Nee
"Fiery trials make golden Christians" -Charles Spurgeon
"What... liberal theology really is is humanism expressed in theological terms instead of philosophic or other terms." -Francis A. Schaeffer
Do you ever feel a Holy anger? Stirred by seeing people dooped by false religions. Minds raped, just as a girl can be raped by a man. -Leonard Ravenhill
“It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.” -A.W. Tozer
You may pray for an hour and still not pray. You may meet God for a moment and then be in touch with Him all day. -Fredrik Wisloff
Truth is freedom. Without truth, there can only be slavery and degradation. - Joseph Reuter
"The atonement, or forgiveness of sin once and for all achieved on the cross, weighs in, and heavily. But the atonement is confirmed, ratified, sealed, and made enduringly good by virtue of Christ's rising from death. Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now." -Paul F.M. Zahl
Should I comfort those who do not mourn? Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!" -John Fletcher
The most precious thing we will ever handle is a human soul. Either eternal darkness or eternal bliss, eternal fires were the worm is never quenched or basking in the Holy Glory of God Almighty. Leonard Ravenhill
"If only Christians feared sin half as much as they fear perfection. If the Messiah can't free us from all sin, he is weak and much of the Bible is poetic but powerless. As I said, half of the battle towards being a true overcomer is in coming to the place where we truly believe that a holy life not only expected but also very possible." -Dennis E. Green
"The disciplines of spiritual reality are 'lost arts' to most modern Christians, but they have been tried, tested and proven by millions before you. They are your only way out of the fantasy of counterfeit Christianity today." - K.P. Yohannan
“The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of
fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy
to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements,
expelled the demons, burst the chains of death,
expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases,
repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed
the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the
thunderbolt. Prayer is all-efficient panoply, a treasure
undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted,
a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by
storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of
a thousand blessings.” -Chrysostom
I want to see someone who will go somewhere and say I will not go until 2 things happen here! God moves in and Satan moves out!! -Leonard Ravenhill
"When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving toward the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest at all. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.” -C.S. Lewis
The Apostle Peter preaching on the day of Pentecost of the risen Savior, says, "God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ." And He speaks of Him as the anointed One, exalted at God's right hand. The Gospel is the Gospel of the Risen Christ. There would be no Gospel for sinners if Christ had not been raised. So the apostle says, "If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins" (1 Cor. 15:17). -H.A. Ironside
“We never test the resources of God until we attempt the Impossible.”- F. B. Meyer
"They [secular humanists] have reduced Man to even less than his natural finiteness by seeing him only as a complex arrangement of molecules, made complex by blind chance. Instead of seeing him as something great who is significant even in his sinning, they see Man in his essence only as an intrinsically competitive animal, that has no other basic operating principle than natural selection brought about by the strongest, the fittest, ending on top. And they see Man as acting in this way both individually and collectively as society." Francis Shaeffer
Wishing will never be a substitute for prayer. -Ed Cole
"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer” - A.T. Pierson
There's not a breath of commercialism in Paul's letters, praise God! He put the gospel trumpet to his lips, and sounded the resurrection. - Leonard Ravenhill
Christ is the Son of God who died for the redemption of sinners and resurrected after three days. This is the greatest truth in the universe. I die because of my belief in Christ. Watchman Nee (Message found underneath his pillow, after 20 years of persecution and brainwashing in a Communist Chinesse Prison)
"...she then told me that she was also a Jewish woman and when she accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior people would say, 'You converted?' She said, 'No, I'm completed.'" -Maurice Morales
"It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should." -A.W. Tozer
“God Himself taught us to meet one another as God has met us in Christ.”- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"How is it that the world couldn't get on with the holiest Man that ever lived and can get on with you and me? Are we compromised? Have we no righeousness that reflects on their corruption?" -Leonard Ravenhill
"If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God. -Blaise Pascal
"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." G.K. Chesterton
“How terrible is the cost of robbing God of time for prayer." -Gordon M. Guiness
"When I was coming to Christ, I thought I was doing it all myself, and though I sought the Lord earnestly, I had no idea the Lord was seeking me. I do not think the young convert is at first aware of this. I can recall the very day and hour when first I received those truths in my own soul - when they were, as John Bunyan says, burnt into my heart as with a hot iron; and I can recollect how I felt that I had grown on a sudden from a babe into a man- that I had made progress in Scriptural knowledge, through having found, once for all, the clue to the truth of God." -Charles H. Spurgeon
“ God is not looking for brilliant men, is not depending upon eloquent men, is not shut up to the use of talented men in sending His Gospel out in the world. God is looking for broken men, for men who have judged themselves in the light of the Cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to an end of themselves, and whose trust and confidence is not in themselves but in God.”
-H.A. Ironside
"Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable." -G.K. Chesterton
"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell." -C.S. Lewis
"If once one has recognized the truth and seen it, you know that it is the truth and that there is no other and there cannot be." -Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened." -Winston Churchill
"Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves." -Blaise Pascal
There's not a breath of commercialism in Paul's letters, praise God! He put the gospel trumpet to his lips, and sounded the resurrection. - Leonard Ravenhill
"These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own."
-G.K. Chesterton (1926)
"The atheist can't find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a policeman." Anonymous
"Prayer is preoccupation with our needs.
Praise is preoccupation with our blessings.
Worship is preoccupation with God." -Leonard Ravenhill
"There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions." -G.K. Chesterton
"Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don't wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe." -Peter Kreeft
"The one thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history." -Leonard Ravenhill
Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness. -Blaise Pascal
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. Helen Keller
"God's Word is the only guide man needs to interpret his past and solve contemporary problems." -Francis Schaeffer
"I may no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather respond to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not."- Jim Elliot
"Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.... The love of God did not protect His own Son.... He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process."- Elisabeth Elliot
"Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision."-G.K. Chesterton
"The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Philosophers , they astonish ordinary men- Christians, they astonish philosophers." -Blaise Pascal
“I grieve that my love is no stronger, and that I am no more like Him. I wonder at His glory, and sink before Him with shame. How is it that the soul being of such value, and God so great, eternity so near and yet we are so little moved?” -William Bramwell
"God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!" -Leonard Ravenhill
"To other men, the proof of our conversion is not what you feel, but what you do." -Charles Spurgeon
"A few years ago it was fairly popular practice for Bible teachers to claim to find in the Scriptures confirmation of almost every new discovery made by science. Apparently no one noticed that the scientist had to find it before the Bible teacher could, and it never seemed to occur to anyone to wonder why, if it was there in the Bible in such plain sight, it took several thousand years and the help of science before anyone saw it.
Now, I believe that everything in the Bible is true, but to attempt to make it a textbook for science is to misunderstand it completely and tragically. The purpose of the Bible is to bring men to Christ, to make them holy and prepare them for heaven. In this it is unique among books, and it always fulfills its purpose when it is read in faith and obedience." -A.W. Tozer
"Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man." -Oswald Chambers
"The life of man is a continual death, unless it be that Christ lives in him."—Ignatius
"To be prepared to die is to be prepared to live. To be ready for eternity is in the best sense to be ready for time. Who is so fit to live on earth as the man who is fit to live in heaven?"-Charles Spurgeon
"The most spiritual teaching fully and constantly presents Christ as able to save to the uttermost. In such teaching there is small room for human theories and reasonings."-Seth Rees
"Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility."-Leonard Ravenhill
"I had rather be the echo of truth, than the voice of falsehood."-Charles Spurgeon
"Salvation is not a cafeteria where you take what you want and leave the rest. You cannot take Christ as Savior and refuse Him as Lord and be saved."-Vance Havner
"It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross is a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride."- John Piper
"A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in." -C. S. Lewis
"On the shallow ground of men's logic, large numbers have been led to assume they have a right to everlasting life and have been given an assurance which does not belong to them." -Walter Chantry
"But," says one, "I see no reason why I should be born again." Ah, poor creature, it is because thou hast never seen thyself. -Charles Spurgeon
"A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience."-Leonard Ravenhill
"Spiritual surgery is more painful than physical surgery. God doesn't use an anesthetic; He doesn't do His work while we are asleep. God can take any brokenhearted believer and make him or her a radiant, loving person. But when He performs such "heart operations," His children are wide awake." -Erwin Lutzer
"Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God." -Samuel Chadwick
"One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
What is essential is invisible to the eyes. - Antoine de St.-Exupery
"If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience. If things are dark to us spiritually, it is because there is something we will not do. Intellectual darkness comes because of ignorance; spiritual darkness comes because of something I do not intend to obey." -Oswald Chambers
It isn't that most people can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. - G. K. Chesterton
"The great care of the life is to put the relationship to God first and everything else second." -Oswald Chamber
"You may call it a coincidence, if you like, but I call it an answer to prayer, and as long as I get such coincidences, I shall be perfectly satisfied to go on praying." -Charles Spurgeon
"Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever." -Dwight L. Moody
"Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?"-Leonard Ravenhill
"And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." -The Bible
"God calls us to be holy. He expects us to grow in unlikeness to this world, and in likeness to that world that is to come." - Horatius Bonar
Too many of us want to make a peace treaty with Christ, but will not make a total surrender to Christ. - Leonard Ravenhill
"A limited readiness is no readiness at all in our dealings with Jesus." -Karl Barth
Worrying shows that one has little faith in what God can do. There is a difference between worring and genuine concern. Worry immobilizes, but concern moves you to action. -Oswald Chambers
May God teach us to know what it means that Christ is our Melchizedek, a priest forever. The spiritual apprehension of this everlasting priesthood-as communicating even here and maintaining an everlasting, unchanging life in us-lifts our inner experience out of the region of effort, change, failure, and into the rest of God so that the immutability of His council is the measure of that of our faith and hope. -Andrew Murray
"For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything." -G. K. Chesterton
"The Holy Spirit only leads when He is known as the Indwelling One; is waited on in deep humility; and is yielded to in meek resignation." -Andrew Murray
"...what joy I had in finding that I had finished with the limited resources of man and begun on the unlimited resources of God!" -Rees Howell
"I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of people would die for Him."-Napoleon Bonaparte
"What we mean by salvation is this: deliverance from the love of sin, rescue from the habit of sin, setting free from the desire to sin."-Charles Spurgeon
"Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?"
-the tombstone of Leonard Ravenhill
"The covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth." -The Bible
"God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him." -Andrew Murray.
"A wife who is 85% faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ." -Vance Havner
"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." -C.S. Lewis
"God's choice acquaintances are humble men." -Robert Leighton.
"He that sits nearest the dust, sits nearest heaven." -Andrew Gray, of Glasgow
"The sins of disciples of Christ are a thousand times worse than the sins of unbelievers, because they sin against a gospel of love, a covenant of mercy, against a sweet experience and against precious promises." -Charles Spurgeon
"A poor wretch dies of starvation, and men cry out because bread was not given him; but when souls sink into damnation for lack of knowledge, they who withhold the bread of heaven will not allow their consciences to trouble them."-Charles Spurgeon
"Jesus Christ is not valued at all until He is valued above all." -St. Augustine
"Sirs, as far as you can, you do kill God, for you put him out of your thoughts, you make nothing of him, and what is that but the crucifixion of God? You despise him so much that his presence has no effect upon you."-Charles Spurgeon
"At the day of judgement we shall all meet again." -George Whitefield
"The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him."-Charles Spurgeon
"How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven." -George Macdonald
"If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are." -J.M.L. Monsabre
"If you will here stop and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but because you never thoroughly intended it." -William Law
"He didn't came to make bad men good, He came to make dead men live" -Leonard Ravenhill
Cursing men are cursed men. -John Trapp
"Our hearts are a factory of idols." -John Calvin
"In the Scriptures I find no shred of encouragement for the proud."-A.W. Tozer
"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind...War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."-John F. Kennedy
"Entertainment is the Devils' substitute for Joy!" -Leonard Ravenhill
"50. Resolved, I will act so as I think I shall judge would have been best, and most prudent, when I come into the future world." -Jonathan Edwards
"I find it most intriguing to contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus Christ in history, He has already decided what place to give them in eternity." -Leonard Ravenhill
"I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to him." -Charles H. Spurgeon
"We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross." -Vance Havner
"It is the will of God that saves. It is the will of man that damns."-Charles Spurgeon
"The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men."-E.M. Bounds
"The preacher who neglects to pray much must be very careless about his ministry. He cannot have comprehended his calling. He cannot have computed the value of a soul, or estimated the meaning of eternity." -Charles Spurgeon
"All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell is terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning." -Oswald Chambers
"If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach." -William Barclay
Noah had two possibilities. Prepare or go with the crowd. - Sarilika Wittchen
"Without God, there is no virtue, because there's no prompting of the conscience. Without God, we're mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive. Without God, there is a coarsening of the society. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." -Ronald Reagan
"Man see's our deeds; God see's our reasons."
Thomas A. Kempis
"He who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God reflects on God." -Soren Kierkegaard
"God has many followers, but few servants."
Thomas A. Kempis
"Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way." -Karl Barth
"It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot, but to fly from all appearance of evil (Prov. 5:8, I Thess. 5:22). The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance; he that will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit." -Thomas Brooks
"The cross: God's way of uniting suffering with love." -Georgia Harkness
"To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"[hymn writing] ]one of the most efficacious instruments for correcting error and for disseminating truth, as well as for ministering comfort and edification." -Christopher Wordsworth
"Jesus was crucified, not in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves." -George F. MacLeod
"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties." -Oswald Chambers
"There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below." -Charles Spurgeon
"Christ's cross is such a burden as sails are to a ship or wings to a bird." -Samuel Rutherford
There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan. -C.S. Lewis
"He came to pay a debt He didn't owe because we owed a debt we couldn't pay." -Anonymous
"If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't."-Vance Havner
"There are two different kinds of revelation, natural revelation, which we find in the world, and special revelation, which we find in the word of God. A basic rule of Biblical interpretation is that we should always interpret natural revelation through the grid of special revelation, that is the word of God. We don't look at the world and then say this is truth, therefore we must conform the Scriptures to what we see. This view is a deadly mistake and would lead to atheism. I interpret science through the lens of the word of God, which presupposes the truth of Genesis 1-3. There is no evidence of higher value or authority than the word of God." -Gene Cook
Time is the lens through which you see, small and clear as through the wrong end of a telescope, something that would otherwise be too big for you to see at all. That thing is Freedom. - C. S. Lewis
"Nothing worse can happen to a church than to be conformed to this world." -Charles Spurgeon
"For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him." -William Barclay
"When the book of God's purposes shall be all unfolded in actual history there will be found no blots, mistakes and blunders there. He knows the end from the beginning and his purposes shall be fulfilled in every jot and tittle, and in nothing shall the glory of God be marred. Though Satan may be laughing now, and every now and then the men of the world may boast against the people of God, it shall not be so in the close of the affair." - Charles Spurgeon
"A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process." C.S. Lewis
"I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. -David Livingstone
"No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth."-Charles Spurgeon
"Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere! -David Livingstone
"Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian." -D.L. Moody
"By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men."-G.K. Chesterton
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it's the only thing -Albert Schweitzer
"Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior."-Charles Spurgeon
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no
explanation is possible." - St. Thomas Aquinas
"If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., Materialism and Astronomy - are mere accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It's like expecting the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset." -C.S. Lewis
"The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. -The Bible
Musica
Handel's - Israel in Egypt, & The Messiah.
Haydn's - The Creation.
Mendelssohn's - Elias, & Paulus.
John Rutter's - Requiem.
Heinrich Schütz - Sacred Choral Music.
Worship music from whatever country I am living in at the moment, collecting archived hymns (ie. Charles Wesley, Christopher Wordsworth, Fanny Crosby, William Williams, Arthur Sullivan, Rowland Hill, Henry Francis Lyte, John Newton, John Cennick, list.), sacred harp music & all the Mars Hill Church bands.
Libri
I'd rather put authors: Andrew Murray, Watchman Nee, Oswald Chambers, Charles Spurgeon, A W Tozer, Novatian, A W Pink, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Finney, E M Bounds, Michael de Molinos, F B Meyer, St. Anselm, John Wesley, Rudolf Otto, Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Nicholas of Cusa, Frederick William Faber, Thomas à Kempis, R A Torrey, Dwight Moody, Vance Havner, Julian of Norwich, Robert Murray MCheyne, George MacDonald, Blaise Pascal, G K Chesterton, Saint Augustine, Christopher Wordsworth, William Wordsworth, Tennyson, Thomas Traherne, C S Lewis, Bakht Singh, Francis Schaeffer, &; the Holy Ghost.
Eroi
Andrew Murray often prayed, "May not a single moment of my life be spent outside the light, love, and joy of God's presence and may not a moment without the entire surrender of my self as a vessel for Him to fill full of His Spirit and His love."
Abiding in Christ was the cornerstone to Andrew Murray's life and ministry. He writes: "Abide in Jesus: your life in Him will lead you to that fellowship with God in which the only true knowledge of God is to be had. His love, His power, His infinite glory will, as you abide in Jesus, be so revealed as it hath not entered into the heart of man to conceive. http://www.intouch.org/myintouch/mighty/portraits/index_77957.html
or
http://www.worldinvisible.com/library/bookcat.htm
How deep, how dreadful, of what alarming magnitude, of how black a dye, of how ingrained a stamp must sin be, to need such an atonement--no less than the blood of him who was the Son of God--to put it away. What a slave to sin and Satan, what a captive to the power of lust, how deeply sunk, how awfully degraded, how utterly lost and undone must guilty man be to need a sacrifice like this! "You are bought with a price." Have you ever felt your bondage to sin, Satan, and the world? Have you ever groaned, cried, grieved, sorrowed, and lamented under your miserable captivity to the power of sin? Has the iron ever entered into your soul? Have you ever clanked your fetters, and as you did so, and tried to burst them, they seemed to bind round about you with a weight scarcely endurable?
But have you ever found any liberty from them, any enlargement of heart, any sweet going forth from the prison-house, any dropping of the manacles from your hands, and the fetters from your feet, so as to walk in some measure of gospel liberty?
"You are bought with a price." You were slaves of sin and Satan; you were shut up in the dark cell, where all was gloom and despondency; there was little hope in your soul of ever being saved. But there was an entrance of gospel light into your dungeon; there was a coming out of the house of bondage; there was a being brought into the light of God's countenance, shining forth in his dear Son. Now, this is not only being bought with a price, but experiencing the blessed effects of it.
-Charles H. Spurgeon
"You are bought with a price." –1 Corinthians 6:20
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"Could it be any clearer? Our old way of life was nailed to the Cross with Christ, a decisive end to that sin-miserable life- no longer at sin's every beck and call. What we believe is this: If we get included in Christ's sin-conquering death, we also get included in his life-saving resurrection. We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead it was a signal of the end of death-as-the-end. Never again will death have the last word. When Jesus died, he took sin down with him, but alive he brings God down to us. From now on, think of it this way: Sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you; God speaks your mother tongue, and you hang on every word. You are dead to sin and alive to God. That's what Jesus did." -Watchman Nee
[Watchman Nee was a brother in Christ who served 20 years in the communist prisons of China, beginning in 1957. He died in 1977, after 20 years of brain-washing & torture, though we see that even the communist prisons of China couldn't shake the faith of a son of God from his Saviour & Lord... He left a piece of paper under his pillow, written with a shaking hand:
"Christ is the Son of God who died for the redemption of sinners and resurrected after three days. This is the greatest truth in the universe. I die because of my belief in Christ."
—Watchman Nee]
You have made my days a mere handbreadth;
the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Each man's life is but a breath.
Man is a mere phantom as he goes to and fro:
He bustles about, but only in vain;
he heaps up wealth, not knowing who will get it.
But now, Lord, what do I look for?
My hope is in you.
Psalm 39:5-7
Mi piacerebbe conoscere: Jesus, who died for thy sins, is worthy to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. We can never ascribe too much to Jesus. But He is worthy also to be believed, in preference to Satan, unbelief, the world, or appearances; to be trusted with all, for all, before all; to be loved more than any other, in opposition to any that would rival Him;...to be followed, wherever He may lead us, through evil report or good report; to be preferred to ease, pleasure, wealth, health, to anything and everything. Jesus is worthy to be our example, our confidant, our king, and our all. He is worthy of all He requires, all we can give, all His people have done for Him or suffered in His cause.
-James Smith, in Daily Remembrances.
"God makes it quite clear in His Word that He has only one answer to every human need; His Son, Jesus Christ." -Watchman Nee
hey RYAN! man im in iraq right now! ha crazy huh but i'll be back in may. man i miss you like crazy i'd love to get together with you sometime. call my pop sometime 7024196955 they'd love to hear from you. i miss you man i cant wait to get back and see you
thanks for the comment on my poem! i'm glad people enjoy it. it was fun to write.
and about the "stop whining" blog-- well, i agree with you. i should make poor behavior known to the person behaving poorly. :P
however, in this instant, my insides were writhing and calling the man an idiot. it was not out of the man's best interest that i said (rather sharply), "again, i understand your problem, sir, now if you'd stop whining about it and tell me what you'd like to do about it i could help you." i was just irritated after we'd gone in a circle 4+ times...
Well, if I am not mistaken, it could be called "Beloved, let us love one another" or "1John 4:7-8"! :-) I remember those lines being said in the chorus, believe it or not!
Right on, man. Good times. Are you giving a teaching to some children?
I like in your newsletter in the end how you quited Philippians 3, which is to know Christ and the fellowship of His suffereings and the power of His resurrection." I just shared that with my roomates a couple weeks ago. ...they recieved it. :-)
Ryan my brother how have you been i've been thinking about you alot lately thinking back to all the old times. i miss you man. i dunno if you know but i enlisted into the MArine Corps about a year ago and right now im currently over in iraq but when i get back i'd love to meet up with you if your around i know your allover the place doing Gods work. but just know i love you bro you changed my life and i'd love to do some catching up with you sometime later andrew
duddddee, thats rediculous, I can't see you playing in that band haha. Its a little to heavy for me, i like more hardcore bands, like haste the day, as i lay dying, all that remains, still remains, bands like that..
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