 It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms. Author: Richard Baxter |
| A holy life is a voice; it speaks when the tongue is silent, and is either a constant attraction or a perpetual reproof. Author: Robert Leighton |
| Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God. Author: Samuel Chadwick |
| The Holy Spirit cannot conquer the world with unbelief, nor can He save the world with a worldly Church. He calls for a crusade, a campaign, and an adventure of saving passion. For this enterprise He wants a separated, sanctified and sacrificial people. Author: Samuel Chadwick |
| God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them. Author: James H. Aughey |
| Holiness consists of three things - separation from sin, dedication to God, transformation into Christ's image. It is in vain that we talk about the last, unless we know something experimentally about the first. Author: James H. Aughey |
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| Remember that holiness is not the way to Christ, but Christ is the way to holiness. Author: James H. Aughey |
| If thou bear the cross cheerfully, it will bear thee. Author: Thomas a Kempis |
| If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell. Author: Thomas a Kempis |
| Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. Simplicity is in the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God; purity unites with and enjoys him. Author: Thomas a Kempis |
| Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ. Author: Thomas a Kempis |
| At the Day of Judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holy we have lived. Author: Thomas a Kempis |
