Work as if, Pray as if - Benjamin Franklin

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790

The Real Attitude of Sin - Oswald Chambers

The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

 

Oswald Chambers 1874-1917

A Great Faith - Thomas Watson

A great faith is like an oak that spreads its roots deep and is not easily blown down, Colossians 2:7. A great faith is like the anchor or cable of a ship that holds it steady in the midst of storms. A Christian who is steeled with this heroic faith is settled in the mysteries of religion.

The Spirit of God has so firmly printed heavenly truths upon his heart that you may as well remove the sun out of the firmament as remove him from those holy principles he has imbibed. Behold here a pillar in the temple of God, Revelation 3:12.

Taken from the book The Lords Supper by Thomas Watson 1665

Pleasure - JC Ryle

"Pleasure", says Adams on second Peter, "must first have the warrant that it be without sin – then the measure that it be without excess."

Taken from the book Thoughts for Young Men by JC Ryle 1886

 

Faith Like Light, Love Like Warmth - Martin Luther

Faith like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side and bend to every necessity of our brethren.

Martin Luther 1483-1546

How Has God Loved Me? - Oswald Chambers

How as God loved me?  God has loved me to the end of all my sinfulness, the end of all my self-will, all my selfishness, all my stiffneckedness, all my pride, all my self-interest; now He says - "love one another, as I have loved you."  I am to show to my fellow-men the same love that God showed to me.  That is Christianity in practical working order.

 

Owsald Chambers 1874-1917

Let Us Test Our Religion - JC Ryle

It will not profit us to read about Christ, if we are not joined to Him by living faith. Once more then let us test our religion be this question; "What think we of Christ?"

Taken from the book Expository Thoughts on the Gospels by J.C. Ryle 1856