…a word in due season, how good it is! (Prov. 15:23 KJV)
“The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love: he who loveth mean and sordid things doth thereby become base and vile; but a nobleand well placed affection doth advance and improve the spirit into a conformity with the perfections which it loves”
– Henry Scougal
“Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this”
– Huldrych Zwingli
“He [Jesus] did not say, ‘You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable,’ but he did say, ‘You will never be overcome”
– Julian of Norwich
“Christ sent me to preach the gospel
and he will look after the results.”
Mary Slessor
“Prayer will make a man cease from sin,
or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer”
John Bunyan
“Most of God’s people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within”
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne
“The word “saint” has its root in one word: Holy”
CR Oliver
From his book HR “The Regal Pair”
“Because it is written, Be ye holy;
for I am holy”
1 Peter 1:16
“He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.”
― John Owen
“Expect great things from God, receive great things from God.
Expect little from God, receive little from God”
– William Carey
“As the world is weary of me so am I of it”
John Knox