God's specific will for each individual can only be ascertained by obedience to His general will contained in Scripture.

~JLW  ApprehendingTruth.net

 

 

"Always be ready to pray, ready to preach, and ready to die."

~ John Wesley

 

 

"After thirty-five years of ministry, I see that most of what I suffered was not because of what I did wrong but because of what I did right!

~B. H. Clendennen

 

"Never forget that your earthly and eternal happiness will be determined by this one thing; your attitude toward and relationship with the WORD OF GOD!"

~ Charlie Kennon

 

When "Christians" contend not for the faith once delivered but for their "right" to self-gratification you can be assured the church is in the troubling throes of apostasy!

 ~ JLW  ApprehendingTruth.net

 

No Christian was ever persecuted for being “loving” in the eyes of carnal men; but for truly loving in speaking the truth in love and calling men to repentance.  

~ Mark Bullen

Living Faith Christian Fellowship

 

If you should ask any man the question whether he loved God or no, he would think you did him great wrong to doubt of it; yet for all this, it is too plain, that there are very few that do indeed love him.

Richard Allstree

The Whole Duty of Man

1838 ed. Pg 12

 

 

Faith motivated by personal desire always results in deception.  But faith that worketh by love always results in submission to God.

– Bracey Greer

 

 

Avoiding that part of Christ's teaching which makes the disciple appear odious and foolish in the eyes of society is the surest way to build a congregation ... of unregenerate men. 

~ Mark Bullen

Living Faith Christian Fellowship

 

There is nothing more ugly than a Christian orthodoxy without understanding or without compassion.

Francis Schaffer

Trilogy pg 34

 

The devil is an evangelist too!  The church believes it has won the world to God, but the world has won the church to the devil!

~Britt Williams

Pastor: Consuming Fire Fellowship

 

Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me!

~ John Newton

 

Ideas have consequences.  Ideas affect behavior and behavior affects the culture.

~Charlie Kennon

Consuming Fire Fellowship

 

Anyone who sets out to follow Christ should remember Gethsemane, Gabbatha, and Golgotha.  And then he should count the cost.  It is either an absolute commitment to Christ, or a sniveling surrender with all that that means of disgrace and degradation.

~ William MacDonald

True Discipleship, pg. 87

 

God commands men to believe because it is rational to do so.

~Britt Williams

Pastor: Consuming Fire Fellowship

 

Think you not the damnation which men must endure for their own sins will be sufficient that they need load themselves with additional guilt of being accessory to the damnation of others also?

~ George Whitefield

George Whitefield Vol. 1, pg. 122

 

The Bible does not ask to be vindicated. Its only demand is that it be proclaimed.  A Bible ministry is one that proclaims God’s Word with unfaltering courage and strict fidelity. Such a ministry shuts itself up to God’s Word and does not go outside of it.

~ E. M. Bounds

Powerful and Prayerful Pulpits, pg. 60,62

 

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

~ George Whitefield

 

The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.

~Leonard Ravehill

Revival Praying, pg. 22

 

The sign of Christianity is not a cross but a tongue of fire.

~ Samuel Chadwick

 

A repentance that does not produce a change in conduct is a sham.

~ E. M. Bounds

Purpose in Prayer

 

Controversy, though not desirable in itself, yet, properly managed, has a hundred times rescued truth, groaning under the lash of triumphant error.

~ John Fletcher

Works of Fletcher Vol. 1

 

The design and object of the incarnation and sacrifice of Christ was to condemn sin, to have it executed and destroyed, NOT to tolerate it as some think, or to render it subservient to the purposes of His grace, but to annihilate its power, guilt, and being in the soul of a believer.

~ Adam Clarke

 

 

We must have Divine love imparted into our hearts, by the operation of the Holy Spirit, before we can truly and Scripturally love God.

~ G. D. Watson

Our Own God, pg. 33

 

It is the divine order that truth of every kind should fully reveal itself only to hungry souls.  The long research and the hot pursuit whet the appetite, and prepare the discoverer for a proper appreciation of the treasure which he has found.  The more valuable the truth, the higher the barriers which hedge it in and appall all timid seekers, leaving the toilsome search to those dauntless souls whose unconquerable persistence makes all opposition bow before them.

~ Daniel Steele

Milestone Papers pg 23.

 

If facing the facts is to be called a pessimist, I am willing to be called a pessimist.  If in order to be an optimist one must shut his eyes and call black white, and error truth, and sin righteousness, and death life, I don't want to be called an optimist.

~ R. A. Torrey

How to Pray pg.46

 

Any error may be founded on parts of Scripture; the truth alone is based on the whole. Marcion’s errors were the inevitable result of his accepting only what pleased him and rejecting the rest.

Marcion was a heretic of the 1st & 2nd century who taught that Jesus did not come in the flesh.

~ E. H. Broadbent

The Pilgrim Church pg 38

 

There are many who ask for the truth, but few who like to hear it.

~ Hans Denck

14th century German Anabaptist

 

The man who is elated by success and cast down by failure is still a carnal man.

~ A. W. Tozer

The Best of A. W. Tozer: Vol. 1, pg 48

 

Religion will always mar the image of Christ.

~Britt Williams

Pastor: Consuming Fire Fellowship

 

I find no such sin as legality in the Bible: The very use of the term speaks an Antinomian. I defy all liberty, but liberty to love and serve God; and fear no bondage, but bondage to sin.

~ John Wesley

Works Vol. XII, pg 415.

 

To surrender to the world of fashion, at the expense of modesty, betrays a spineless faith which knows nothing of the call to holiness.  

~ Larry Christenson  

The Christian Family, pg 77

  

 

Judgment must begin at oneself, and then it can (indeed, must) be exercised toward others.

~Greg L. Bahnsen

Theonomy in Christian Ethics, pg.93

 

A need for revival presupposes a declension.

~ Charles Finney

 

The only man who has the right to say he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoffer

The Cost of Discipleship,  pg 51

 

If a man professes to love God, he ought to have consistency enough to reprove those who oppose God.

~ Charles Finney

“Living For God”, pg 286

To turn our eyes away from the light and then pray to see is to tempt God.

~ Charles Finney

“Living For God”, pg 301

 

To the Christian, discipline means discipleship – following Jesus, with one’s self denied and one’s cross resolutely carried.

~ Richard Taylor

 

Truth is slain to provide a feast to celebrate the marriage of heaven and hell, and all to support a concept of unity which has no basis in the Word of God.  

~ A. W. Tozer

The Best of A. W. Tozer, p.72

 

 

“Our love for truth is measured by how far towards perishing we are willing to go without seeking to save ourselves with a lie.”

 

Art Katz,

“The Spirit of Truth”, pg. 71.