Association promotes assimilation. A Christian who lives in isolation from other believers will fail to receive the blessings as well as the maturity resulting from godly interaction.—Joel Beeke (posted 11/07/2008)
“Satan doth not tempt God’s children because they have sin in them, but because they have grace in them. Had they no grace, the devil would not disturb them…. Though to be tempted is a trouble, yet to think why you are tempted is a comfort”—Thomas Watson (posted 11/05/2008)
“Man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God’s face, and then descends from contemplating Him to scrutinize himself.” —John Calvin (posted 10/30/2008)
See how red is your guilt, mark the scarlet stain. It you were to wash your soul in the Atlantic Ocean, you might incarnadine every wave that washes all its shores, and yet the crimson spots of your transgression would still remain. But plunge into the “fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuel’s veins,” and in an instant you are whiter than snow. Every speck, spot, and stain of sin is gone, and gone forever.”—C.H. Spurgeon (posted 10/21/2008)
“Next to faith this is the highest art — to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.” —Martin Luther (posted 10/13/2008)
“It is a bad world, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret. They have found a joy that is a thousand times better than any pleasure of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They are masters of their souls. They have overcome the world. These people are the Christians–and I am one of them.”–Saint Cyprian (posted 10/11/2008)
“When men sought to make Him king He fled; now that they seek to put Him to death He goes out to meet them.”—Rudolph Stier (posted 10/14/2008)
“At the heart of the story stands the cross of Christ where evil did its worst and met its match.”—John W. Wenham (posted 10/01/2008)
“True contentment is a real, even an active, virtue—not only affirmative but creative. It is the power of getting out of any situation all there is in it.”—G.K. Chesterton (posted 09/30/2008)
“Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!”—David Livingstone (posted 09/27/2008)
“What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?”—Jim Elliot (posted 09/26/2008)
“Grace is but Glory begun, and Glory is but Grace perfected.”—Jonathan Edwards (posted 09/25/2008)
“To worship God is what I am.”—John Fischer (posted 09/24/2008)
“Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.”—Oswald Chambers (posted 09/22/2008)
“Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day; Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies; Lord in my view let both united be; I live in pleasure when I live to thee.” –Phillip Doddridge (posted 09/20/2008)
“God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life, that I may burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like You, Lord Jesus.” — Jim Elliot (posted 9/19/2008)
“To stand by the shadows of a friendly tree with the wind tugging at your coattail and the heavens hailing your heart, to gaze and glory and to give oneself to God, what more could a man ask? Oh the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth.” —Jim Elliot The Journals of Jim Elliot (posted 9/18/2008)
“Thy will be done! Yes, my adorable Lord, strip me of every penny. Bring me not only to poverty, but what I far more dread, to insolvency. Yes! Strip me even of reputation. Let me be as ‘filth and offscouring of all things.’ Only let me have thy approval, and all shall be well. Yes, I will praise thee for all, and most for the severe.”—Mary Fletcher (posted 9/18/2008)
“To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is a greater.”—J.I. Packer (posted 10/15/2008)
