“Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the Spirit more closely and distinctly every year. Lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily threatens you. Press towards the mark more earnestly. Fight a better fight, and war a better warfare every year you live. Pray more. Read more. Subdue self more. Love the brethren more. Oh that you may endeavor to grow in grace every year, that the end of your Christian course may be better than the beginning!” FeelsYearsMayWarEndsSelfChristianSpiritFightingCoursesGrowsChristSinWalksGracePrayingWeightMarkPressesLaysWitnessEndeavorWarfareAssuranceBrethren Author:J. C. Ryle
“Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it not a dungeon, but a solitude. When the soul is in heaven, the body feels not the weight of fetters; it carries the whole man along with it.” MenFeelsSoulWholeBodyChristianJoyJesusHeavenChristLibertySolitudeJesus ChristWeightPrisonDesertProphetCarrieDungeonsFetters Author:Tertullian
“Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it has on the human soul, fettering and paralyzing it with the weight of the burden exacted through the death of Christ.” HumansSoulHumanityChristAtheismEffectsTerribleCrossesWeightBurdenPositive AtheismRedemptionHuman SoulDamnation Book:Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures Source: Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures
“A friend ... said, "You were healed by faith." "Oh, no," I said, "I was healed by Christ." What is the difference? There is a great difference. There came a time when even faith seemed to come between me and Jesus. I thought I should have to work up the faith, so I laboured to get the faith. At last I thought I had it; that if I put my whole weight upon it, it would hold. I said, when I thought I had got the faith, "Heal me." I was trusting in myself, in my own heart, in my own faith. I was asking the Lord to do something for me because of something in me, not because of something in Him.” IfsShouldHeartSaidWholeLastsJesusChristDifferencesMy OwnLordShould HaveWeightAskingHealHealed Author:A. B. Simpson