“The causes of retarded spiritual progress are many. It would not be accurate to ascribe to one single fault. One there is, however, which is so universal that it may easily be the main cause: failure to give time to the cultivation of the knowledge of God! The temptation to make our relation to God judicial instead of personal is very strong“
– A.W. Tozer
Richard Baxter, 1615-1691
This is from the blog Exploring God’s Library:
Light from Old Times by J.C. Ryle
From: A Revival Resource Center
Richard Baxter – “Prayer Makes History”:
Many within the Church today feel as if they are drowning in a river of empty words and hollow promises. Demoralized by superficial religion, their hungry hearts are crying out, “Where is the REAL Church, mighty in truth and power?” There are many who can give us a moving definition of revival, but where are the MEN who can move the Church with a demonstration of revival? As the late Leonard Ravenhill once said, “We can all make the menu, but we can’t make the meal.” Proverbs 27:7 tells us that, “To the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.” Sadly, multitudes of hungry and disillusioned souls are seeking the bitter bread of a godliness that denies power, or a…
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“Knowledge without repentancewill be but a torch to light men to hell”
“Knowledge without repentance
will be but a torch to light men to hell”
Thomas Watson
“It is the office of Jesus to reveal to us the word of truth, and it is the office of the Holy Spirit to reveal in us the power of truth”
G.D. Watson
“I indeed have baptized you with water:
but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost”
Mark 1:8
Wisdom of the Ages
“The prophet who foresees that “He shall deliver the needy, when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper” (Psalm 72:12); no less declares that He “loveth righteousness and hateth iniquity” (Psalm 45:5, 7; Heb. 1:9), and that “He cometh to judge the world with equity and the people with His truth” (Psalm 96:13). Some of His elect may think, that, because they are elect, He will not judge them. But because He is the Truth, He must judge all wrong, and judge it even more in those who know and are near Him, than in those who know Him not. For He reveals Him who said of old, “You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore will I punish you for your iniquities” (Amos 3:2)
– Andrew Jukes
Wisdom of the Ages 