We by sin have made ourselves poor, needy creatures; but God has provided for us gold tried in the fire.
—Jonathan Edwards
Strive, O my soul, to maintain and keep alive impressions, first, of the constant presence of a holy, omniscient, omnipotent, but infinitely merciful and gracious God, of Christ our almighty shepherd, of the Holy Spirit, of the evil one, and the invisible world in general.
—William Wilberforce
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
—Pablo Picasso
It is sweet to know and preach, the Christ justifies the ungodly, and that all truly good works are not so much as partly the cause, but the *effect* of our justification before God.
—George Whitefield
That which is born of, or produced by, the Holy Ghost, in the heart or soul of a man when he is regenerate, that which makes him so, is spirit; in opposition to the flesh, or that enmity which is in us by nature against God.
—John Owen
That which is born of, or produced by, the Holy Ghost, in the heart or soul of a man when he is regenerate, that which makes him so, is spirit; in opposition to the flesh, or that enmity which is in us by nature against God.
—John Owen
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.”
—Voltaire
So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: ‘I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because i made you strong enough not to fall in.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“He cannot wilfully offend against such love; on the contrary, he feels himself bound to obey God in return for such unsearchable grace; and thus by a sense of love doth God write his law upon the hearts of his people.”
– Charles Spurgeon
We are by our own sin against God plunged into all sorts of evil, and God has provided a remedy for us against every sort of evil, he has left us helpless in no calamity.
—Jonathan Edwards
If a person believes that he can please God with rituals and prayers but not deeds, it means he wants to deceive God, but he only deceives himself.
—Leo Tolstoy
“No man ever became holy by chance.
There must be resolve, a desire, a panting after obedience to God, or else we shall never have it.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Let him be assured that the Father loved him so much as to give his only begotten Son to die that he might live through him, and he must love God and hate evil.”
– Charles Spurgeon
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
—Voltaire
“If I know God, and yet live for my own profit, for my own honor, for my own comfort, then I do not glorify God as God.”
— Charles Spurgeon
But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
—Aldous Huxley
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
—Thomas Aquinas
If we lean upon anything but the arm of God we will be disappointed.
—D. L. Moody
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
—Voltaire
“When it becomes a misery to serve God, then indeed the heart is far away from spiritual health; for when the heart is renewed, it delights to worship and serve the Lord.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God. – C.S. Lewis
If, in the righteousness, the goodness, the love, the mercy, the all-sufficiency of God, there be any thing that will do us good, the Lord Jesus is fully interested with the dispensing of it in our behalf.
—John Owen
If, in the righteousness, the goodness, the love, the mercy, the all-sufficiency of God, there be any thing that will do us good, the Lord Jesus is fully interested with the dispensing of it in our behalf.
—John Owen
“Even though you fall into sin through the infirmity of your flesh, yet if it causes you intense agony and sorrow it is because God has written his law in your heart.”
– Charles Spurgeon
It is possible to lose ground because of some private refusal to the will of God at the point where it crossed our natural will, and if this happens, the Lord cannot fulfill His purpose in us.
—Amy Carmichael
I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him.
I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.
—Carl Jung
I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him.
I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.
—Carl Jung
“No man who merely skims the book of God can profit from it.
We must dig and mine until we obtain hidden treasure.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“If God is to write the law upon the heart, the heart must be prepared, and in order to being prepared, it must be entirely renewed by a miracle of mercy, such as can only be wrought by that omnipotent hand which made both heaven and earth.”
– Charles Spurgeon
We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.
—Carl Jung