“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
“The ultimate consequences of the individualist spirit in economic life are those which you yourselves, Venerable Brethren and Beloved Children, see and deplore: Free competition has destroyed itself; economic dictatorship has supplanted the free market; unbridled ambition for power has likewise succeeded greed for gain; all economic life has become tragically hard, inexorable, and cruel.” ChildrenHardSpiritPoliticsEconomyEconomicAmbitionConsequenceGainsUltimateCompetitionGreedDestroyedBelovedLiberalismDictatorshipFree MarketBrethrenInexorable Book:On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno) Source: On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)
“Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.” EndsChristianHappinessSpiritSonMastersPerfectionAimBrethren Book:Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series
“Sin! Sin! Thou art a hateful and horrible thing, that abominable thing which God hates. And what wonder? Thou hast insulted His holy majesty; thou hast bereaved Him of beloved children; thou hast crucified the Son of His infinite love; thou hast vexed His gracious Spirit; thou hast defied His power; thou hast despised His grace; and in the body and blood of Jesus, as if that were a common thing, thou hast trodden under foot His matchless mercy. Surely, brethren, the wonder of wonders is, that sin is not that abominable thing which we also hate.” IfsChildrenArtBodySpiritHateJesusSinCommonWonderGraceBloodFeetSonHolyMercyInfiniteHorribleBelovedMajestyHatefulGraciousDespisedBrethrenInsultedHorrible ThingsInfinite LoveCommon ThingsBlood Of Jesus Author:Thomas Guthrie