JC Ryle - Prayerless

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
... J. C. Ryle (1816-1900),

W. Somerset Maugham - Worship

"We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights."
W. Somerset Maugham

Isaac Watts - Father

Father, I wait thy daily will, Thou shalt divide my portion still, Grant me on earth what seems thee best, Till death and heaven reveal the rest.
Isaac Watts

John Piper - Prayer

A prayerless Christian is like having your room wallpapered in Sak's Fifth Avenue gift certificates but always shopping at Ragstock because you can't read.— John Piper

Dwight L Moody - Faith

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.
Dwight L. Moody

Bruce Reed - Free

To worship effectively is to enable men to become free.

Bruce Reed

DL Moody - Love

Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; patience is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and self-control is love in training.
D.L. Moody

CH Spurgeon - Laugfhter

There are also many expressions which may provoke a smile: but let it be remembered that every man has his moments when his lighter feelings indulge themselves, and the preacher must be allowed to have the same passions as his fellow-men; and since he lives in the pulpit more than anywhere else, it is but natural that his whole man should be there developed; besides, he is not quite sure about a smile being a sin, and, at any rate, he thinks it less a crime to cause a momentary laughter than a half-hour's profound slumber.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

CS Lewis - Safety and Happiness

"Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other."
CS Lewis

Thomas Watson - In Heaven!

Some have asked whether we shall know one another in heaven? Surely, our knowledge will not be diminished, but increased. The judgement of Luther and Anselm, and many other divines is, that we shall know one another; yea, the saints of all ages, whose faces we never saw; and, when we shall see the saints in glory without their infirmities of pride end passion, it will be a glorious sight.
Thomas Watson

"You've got something in your eye!"

If we see a speck in a brother's eye, we must first see if there is a log in our own eye; perhaps that speck in our brother's eye is only a reflection of the beam in our own.

David Watson

C.S. Lewis - Debunked

"A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional ... values, have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process."
C.S. Lewis

Samuel Rutherford - Conscience

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again. Samuel Rutherford

CT Studd - Low Funds

Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.

C. T. Studd

John Calvin - Obedience

Children, obey. Why does the apostle use the word obey instead of honor, which has a greater extent of meaning? It is because obedience is the evidence of that honor which children owe to their parents, and it therefore more earnestly enforced. It is likewise more difficult; for the human mind recoils from the idea of subjection, and with difficulty allows itself to be placed under the control of another.
John Calvin

George Swinnock - Compassion

Reprove compassionately. Soft words and hard arguments do well together. Passion will heat the sinner's blood, but compassion will heal his conscience.
George Swinnock

George Bernard Shaw - Ashamed

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

George Bernard Shaw

Dwight Moody - Trouble

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.

Dwight L. Moody

William Feather - Do something!

After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.

William Feather

A.W. Tozer - Simple Lives

We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.
A.W. Tozer