Wisdom of the Ages

“No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul”
— John Flavel

“No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul”
— John Flavel
This is the ministry and its work–not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks

“This is the ministry and its work–not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks”
– Frederick William Robertson
“All Christian power springs from communion with God and from the indwelling of divine grace”

“All Christian power springs from communion with God
and from the indwelling of divine grace”
James H. Aughey
I wonder if there was ever a time when true spiritual worship was at a lower ebb. To great sections of the church, the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the “program.

“I wonder if there was ever a time when true spiritual worship was at a lower ebb. To great sections of the church, the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the “program.” This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the public service which now passes for worship among us”
– A. W. Tozer
Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience
“If we haven’t learned to be worshipers it doesn’t really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience”
– Erwin W. Lutzer