“If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally”
– Angelus Silesius
“Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit,
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God”
John 3:5
“Faith refers to Christ.
Holiness depends on faith.
Heaven depends on holiness”
Alexander MacLaren
“…even so now yield your members
servants to righteousness unto holiness”
Romans 6:19
“Of all gossiping, religious gossiping is the worst: it adds hypocrisy to uncharitableness, and effectually does the work of the devil in the name of the Lord”
John Wesley
“And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness”
Genesis 9:23
“Trouble makes earth undesirable and causes heaven to loom up large in the horizon of hope. There is a world where trouble never comes. But the path of tribulation leads to that world. Those who are there went there through tribulation”
E.M. Bounds
“Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God”
Acts 14:22
“If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me”
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne
“Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them”
Hebrews 7:25
Wisdom of the Ages 