 My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great. Author: John Wesley |
| A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. Author: John Calvin |
| Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! Author: John Piper |
| Do you have a hunger for God? If we don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because we have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because we have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Our soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. If we are full of what the world offers, then perhaps a fast might express, or even increase, our soul's appetite for God. Between the dangers of self-denial and self-indulgence is the path of pleasant pain called fasting. Author: John Piper |
| Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable. Author: John Stott |
| We should not ask, "What is wrong with the world?" for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather, we should ask, "What has happened to the salt and light?" Author: John Stott |
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| The weakness of human nature has always appeared in times of great revivals of religion, by a disposition to run into extremes, especially in these three things: enthusiasm, superstition, and intemperate zeal. Author: Jonathan Edwards |
| The most generous vine, if not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems and grows at last weak and fruitless: so doth the best man if he be not cut short in his desires, and pruned with afflictions. Author: Joseph Hall |
| The best ground, unfilled and neglected, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is either negligent or uncorrected cannot but grow wild and godless. Author: Joseph Hall |
| Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility. Author: Leonard Ravenhill |
| The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it. Author: Leonard Ravenhill |
| Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land. Author: Leonard Ravenhill |
