I believe that much of our religious unbelief is due to a wrong conception of and a wrong feeling for the Scriptures of Truth. A silent God suddenly began to speak in a book and when the book was finished lapsed back into silence again forever. Now we read the book as the record of what God said when He was for a brief time in a speaking mood. With notions like that in our heads how can we believe? The facts are that God is not silent, has never been silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second Person of the Holy Trinity is called the Word. The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God’s continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind for us put into our familiar human words. ‘The Pursuit of God,’ A.W.Tozer

Victory is the place where our breaking point becomes our turning point.  L. Burt

A path to a close daily walk with God, – step by step, with circumspect vigilance, conduct and even motive are watched and weighed in God’s own balances.

‘George Muller of Bristol’ Dr. A.T. Pierson

A great statesman made a speech that turned the tide in national affairs. “May I ask how long it took you to prepare that speech?” asked an admirer. “All my life has been a preparation for what I said today,” was the reply.

‘Spiritual Leadership,’ J. Oswald Sanders

Love is internal, not external. There can be external manifesta­tions, but love itself will always be an internal factor. Coveting is always internal; the external manifestation is result. We must see that to love God with all the heart, mind, and soul is not to covet against God; and to love man, to love our neighbour as ourselves, is not to covet against man. When I covet God’s prerogatives for myself, or covet another person’s things for myself, I am not loving God or the person as I should.

Complete Works of Francis A Schaeffer V3

Everywhere is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only the shorter the better.

Charles H. Spurgeon (said over 100 years ago)

A great statesman made a speech that turned the tide in national affairs. “May I ask how long it took you to prepare that speech?” asked an admirer. “All my life has been a preparation for what I said today,” was the reply.

‘Spiritual Leadership,’ J. Oswald Sanders

This is not a time for weak men in weak pulpits in weak churches preaching weak messages.  The aim of good Bible teaching is to conform church members to Christ’s image.

John MacArthur

The Christian life isn’t a life that we live, it is a life that the Spirit of God who indwells us, is living through us – that is the Holy Spirit is the expressing the character of Jesus Christ in and through our life.

Charles Stanley

Compromise is the partial waiving of principle for the sake of reaching agreement. It is always a backward step when we consent to lower our standards, and all too often this is involved in arriving at a compromise. It nearly always involves a scaling down of standards.

The epic contest of Moses with Pharaoh affords a classic example of the progressive temptation to compromise. When Pharaoh discerned Moses’ inflexible purpose to take Israel out of Egypt to worship Jehovah, he used all his wiles to frustrate him. “Worship God if you will,” was the first suggestion, “but there is no need to leave Egypt to do it. Worship God where you are.” The modern counterpart would be: “Don’t neglect religion. But there is no need to be narrow and make a complete break with the world.”

‘Spiritual Leadership,’ J. Oswald Sanders

Of course this environment-of not saying “no”-fits exactly into our individual natural disposition, because, since the fall of man, we do not want to deny ourselves. Actually we do everything we can, whether it is in a philosophic sense or a practical sense, to put ourselves at the centre of the universe. This is where we naturally want to live. And this natural disposition fits in exactly with the environment which surrounds us in the twentieth century.

Complete Works of Francis A Schaeffer V3

The effort of liberal and borderline modernists to woo men to God by presenting the soft side of religion is an unqualified evil because it ignores the very reason for our alienation from God in the first place.   

‘The Root of the Righteous,’ a.w.Tozer

From its very nature, the lot of the leader must be a lonely one. He must always be ahead of his followers. Though he be the friendliest of men, there are areas of life in which he must be red to tread a lonely path. This fact dawned painfully on Dixon E. Hoste when Hudson Taylor laid down the direction of China Inland Mission and appointed Hoste his successor. After interview during which the appointment was made, the new leader, sensible of the weight of responsibility which now was his, “And now I have no one, no one but God!” In his journey to top he had left behind all his contemporaries and stood alone the mount with his God. Continue reading →

Our Lord forewarned us that false Christs should come. Mostly we think of these as coming from the outside, but we should remem­ber that they may also arise within the sanctuary itself.

We must be extremely careful that the Christ we profess to follow is indeed the very Christ of God. There is always danger that we may be fol­lowing a Christ who is not the true Christ but one conjured up by our imagination and made in our own image.

I confess to a feeling of uneasiness about this when I observe the questionable things Christ is said to do for people these days. He is often recom­mended as a wonderfully obliging but not too dis­criminating Big Brother who delights to help us to accomplish our ends, and who further favours us by forbearing to ask any embarrassing questions about the moral and spiritual qualities of those ends.

‘The Root of the Righteous,’ a.w.Tozer