One Truth Driven Home - Thomas Watson

Meditate not on too many things at once. One truth driven home by meditation will most kindly affect the heart. Drive but one wedge of meditation at a time, but be sure you drive it home to the heart. Those who aim at a whole flock of birds hit none.

 

Taken from the book Extracts from the Writings of Thomas Watson Thomas Watson 1620-1686

True Religion - Henry Scougal

True religion is a union of the soul with God, a real participation of the Divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or, in the apostle's phrase, 'it is Christ formed within us'.

 

Taken from the book The Life of God in the Soul of Man by Henry Scougal 1650-1678

Not In This Life Is It to Be Expected - John Owens

Now, though doubtless there may be attained, by the Spirit and grace of Christ, a wonderful success and eminency of victory against any sin, so that a man may have almost constant triumph over it; yet an utter killing and destruction of it, that it should not be, is not in this life to be expected.

 

Taken from the book The Mortification of Sin by John Owen 1656

Our Hearts Are Like - J.C. Ryle

Our hearts are like the earth on which we tread;

let it alone, and it is sure to bear weeds.

 

Taken from the book The Duties of Parents by JC Ryle 1816-1900

Consenting To His Undoubted Right – Phillip Doddridge

You are also, on this great occasion, to resign all that you have to the disposal of His wise and gracious providence; not only owning His power, but consenting to His undoubted right to do what He pleases with you and all that He has given you.

 

 

Taken from the book

A Pastor's Counsel: Wise Words for Weary, Wounded, and Wandering Sheep

Phillip Doddridge 1702-1751

Work For The Lord While You Can - C.H. Spurgeon

Young men, work for the Lord while you can. It would greatly embitter my season of painful retirement if I could accuse myself with having wasted the time of my health and strength. When I can work, I pack a mass into small compass because I am so painfully aware that days and weeks may come wherein I cannot work.

 

Taken from the book Letters of Charles Haddon Spurgeon Charles Spurgeon 1834-1892

I Believe In a Faith That You Can See - D.L. Moody

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? James 2:14

 

I believe in a faith that you can see; a living, working faith that prompts to action. Faith without works is like a man putting all his money into the foundation of a house; and works without faith is like building a house on sand without any foundation.

 

You often hear people say: "The root of the matter is in him." What would you say if I had a garden and nothing but roots in it?

 

Taken from the book Day by Day with DL Moody DL Moody 1837-1899