Tuesday, September 20, 2005

When filled with holy truth, the mind rests. - CH Spurgeon

  • Hudson Taylor - "We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!"
  • Blaise Pascel ( I am a HUGE fan of Blaise Pascel!!! I think both of those names would make awesome middle names. Heh). "The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the might of the Spirit of God."
  • Jerry Bridges "It is time for us Christians, to face up to our responsibility for holiness. Too often we say we are “defeated” by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient. It might be well if we stopped using the terms victory and defeat to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms obedience and disobedience.Faith and holiness are inextricably linked. Obeying the commands of God usually involves believing the promises of God."
  • Robert Murray McCheyne "Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourselves to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God. Luther spent his best three hours in prayer."
  • C. H. Spurgeon "I believe the holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him."
  • C. H. Spurgeon "Though you have struggled in vain against your evil habits, though you have wrestled with them sternly, and resolved, and re-resolved, only to be defeated by your giant sins and your terrible passions, there is One who can conquer all your sins for you. There is One who is stronger than Hercules, who can strangle the hydra of your lust, kill the lion of your passions, and cleanse the Augean stable of your evil nature by turning the great rivers of blood and water of his atoning sacrifice right through your soul. He can make and keep you pure within. Oh, look to him!
  • Chuck Colson "Holiness is the everyday business of every Christian. It evidences itself in the decisions we make and the things we do, hour by hour, day by day."

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