Author: wordsofithiel

Wisdom of the Ages – J.C. Ryle

Wisdom of the Ages

JC Ryle

“Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you would not like God to read. Go no place where you would not like God to find you. Read no book of which you would not like God to say, “Show it to Me.” Never spend your time in such a way that you would not like to have God say, “What are you doing?”
― J.C. Ryle

“Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers;
but as the servants of Christ,
doing the will of God from the heart”
Ephesians 6:6

Wisdom of the Ages – Alexander MacLaren

Wisdom of the Ages

alexander-maclaren

“Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy”
– Alexander MacLaren

Wisdom of the Ages – Leonard Ravenhill

Wisdom of the Ages

Leonard Ravenhill

“The man who will not lay down his lifestyle for God will never lay down his life for Him”
Leonard Ravenhill

“If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land”
– Isaiah 1:19

Wisdom of the Ages – Thomas Kelly

Wisdom of the Ages

Thomas-R-Kelly

Wholly His

“The life that intends to be wholly obedient, wholly submissive, wholly listening, is astonishing in its completeness. Its joys are ravishing, its peace profound, its humility the deepest, its power world-shaking, its love enveloping, its simplicity that of a trusting child.”
– Thomas Raymond Kelly

“Meditate upon these things;
give thyself wholly to them;
that thy profiting may appear to all”
1 Timothy 4:15

 

Wisdom of the Ages – George MacDonald

Wisdom of the Ages

G. MacDonald

“The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.”
– George MacDonald

All true life is that which arises from death. The receiving of the eternal is known by the forsaking of the temporal. All creation is but the textbook for the true follower of Christ (Romans 1:20). In our yielding to the will of Him who is eternal life we find the withering of the passions and desires for the shadows and illusions of this world. Clarity comes to the pure in heart.

“Blessed are the pure in heart
for they shall see God”

Brian Troxel