Category: Quotes
Break Off Every Known Sin
By J.C. Ryle In the last place, I will set down some particular rules of conduct which I strongly advise all young men to follow. (1) Resolve at once, by God’s help, to break off every known sin, however small. Look within, each one of you. Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any…
Set A Guard
Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips! Do not let my heart incline to any evil… –Psalm 141:3-4
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going. – Ecclesiastes 9:10
Contentment
“Contentment is the inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, freely submitting to and taking pleasure in God’s disposal in every condition.” -Jeremiah Burroughs
Churchill on Courage
“Success is not final,Failure is not fatal:it is the courage to continue that counts.” “Courage is going from failureto failure without losing enthusiasm.”
Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones (1969)
O Lord our God, have mercy upon us. Forgive us especially, we pray thee again, for our folly—for our foolish talking about our century and the “modern man”, as if anything had changed. Awaken us, we pray thee, and bring us to see that thy method is still the same, that the truth remains unchanged…
The Venue for Evangelism
“Still today, many churches seek to do outreach primarily by bringing people in. They practice an attractional model of mission. As a result, our greatest aspirations in evangelism have often been that our neighbors would come with us to church, send their kids to VBS, or attend a Christian camp or concert. But we need…