Leave it all in the Hands

 "Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you." -Elisabeth Elliot.

We don't need now

 "God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now."

-- Elisabeth Elliot.

Riches in Christ

"There are riches enough in Christ to pay all your debts, and to satisfy divine justice to the utmost farthing, without being beholden to your prayers, tears, or humiliations. Kings love no consorts; power is impatient of participation." -- Thomas Brooks:

Dragged Downward

 Earthbound Christianity will always collapse under its own weight.

If you are not pulled upward by the world to come, you will inevitably be dragged downward by the world you see.

Jeffery Perry

Always Forgiving

 “You are often sinning, but he is always forgiving you.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Looks at Himself

 “when the Christian looks at himself he can only have grounds for anxiety, indeed despair, but [in] fellowship with Christ, he can think of himself in no other way than as a member of Christ, thus making all the blessings of Christ his own.”

-John Calvin

Continually

 “I sin continually. But Christ has died and forever lives as my Redeemer, Priest, Advocate and King.”

-Martin Luther

Jeremiah 17:9

 The addicted heart.

Calvin on the natural man in Jeremiah 17:9: “The heart is especially inclined (procliue) toward every evil, and filled with corrupt desires (prauis cupiditatibus), and enslaved (addictum) to them, and obstinately rebellious against God. And though we sometimes display something that appears good, yet that inner disposition (animi affectus) of the soul remains in its own defilement (sordibus) and crooked perversity (obliqua perversitate).” Deeper than wrong doing is wrong loving. Pic: Calvin, *Institutio* (Basil, 1536), 44.

Who we embrace

 Godly living centers not on what we avoid, but on whom we embrace. Anytime we talk more about dos and don’ts than about Jesus, something’s wrong.

~Randy Alcorn

Hammer away

 “Hammer away ye hostile hands; your hammers break, God’s anvil stands.”

—inscription on a monument to the French Huguenots, testifying to their view of Scripture

Mere Notions

 If we satisfy ourselves in mere notions and speculations about the glory of Christ as doctrinally revealed unto us, we shall find no transforming power or efficacy communicated unto us thereby.

John Owen

FAITH IS WEAKENED

 Where any corrupt and inordinate affections, as love of the world, care about it, inclinations unto sensuality, or the like spiritual disorders do prevail, faith is weakened in its spiritual acts, especially in discerning and beholding the glory of Christ.

John Owen