Classic Christian Quotes

Classic Christian Quotes

To him who overcomes I will give the privilege of sitting down with Me on My throne, as I also have overcome and have sat down with My Father on His throne. (Revelation 3:21 WNT)

We all have resurrection Life if we are joined to Christ as Resurrection, but there is something more than that; there is resurrection power, which carries us eventually (if it has its full outworking) to the Throne, and not all will come to the Throne. It is: “to him that overcomes.” Caleb, like Paul, and Paul, like Caleb, stood against the more general course of things amongst the Lord’s people. The majority were content with going so far as to the inheritance, possessing so much, and there staying and settling down. An unfinished course, a curtailed spiritual advance, an accepting of something less than what God had appointed and intended. The majority took that course, but Caleb was never content and he stood against the majority just as he had always stood against a majority that did not represent God’s full mind....

Spiritual leadership always involves loneliness. That is the cost of it. The overcomers will always be, so far as the larger Christian world is concerned, a lonely company, having to go on, with few able to follow. Caleb could not accept the popular voice, his heart was too set upon the Lord. He wholly followed the Lord, not the popular and general standard of Christian life. We may say that Caleb was the very embodiment of all that God meant the whole people to be. When you see Caleb you see what God wished all Israel to be, but all Israel did not come to the standard of Caleb. But the Lord gets in a Caleb the satisfaction of His heart. The Lord realizes His full thought in a Caleb, in the same way as He does in a Paul.

~T. Austin-Sparks~
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ETERNITY!

"Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God. You turn men back to dust, saying, 'Return to dust, O sons of men.' For a thousand years in Your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night. You sweep men away in the sleep of death; they are like the new grass of the morning--though in the morning it springs up new, by evening it is dry and withered. The length of our days is seventy years--or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away!" Psalm 90:1-6, 10

A thousand years! This is a long stretch of time. How much may be crowded into it--the rise and fall of empires, the glory and obliteration of dynasties, the beginning and the end of elaborate systems of human philosophy, and countless events--all important to individuals, which elude the pens of historians. Yet this period is to the Lord as nothing, even as time already gone. If a thousand years are to God as a single night-watch--then what must be the life-time of the Eternal God! Charles Spurgeon 

Before the Eternal God, all the age of frail man is less than one ticking of a clock! Charles Spurgeon 

O think a little, how inconsiderable a thing is the longest life of man on earth--compared with an everlasting duration! The psalmist tells us, "You have made my days as an handbreadth, and my age--my life, my time on earth--is as nothing to You"--nothing, as compared with God's duration, which is without beginning or end!  John Shower

This life, upon which everything depends--is very brief. 
How solemn this is! In Scripture, time is compared to . . . 
  a flower of the field; 
  a watch in the night; 
  a dream; 
  a vapor. 
William Jay 

How little a while we are to abide here on earth. After death we must abide forever in eternal bliss--or in eternal torments. We will either be with God in endless glory--or in everlasting fire with the devil and his demons! John Shower

Eternity to the godly, is a day that has no sunset. 
Eternity to the godless, is a night that has no sunrise. Thomas Watson

O God, stamp eternity on my eyeballs! Jonathan Edwards

ETERNITY! O that the sinner would study this word--methinks it would startle him out of his dead sleep! 

O that the gracious soul would study it--methinks it would revive him in his deepest agony! Richard Baxter

The crosses and comforts of this present time would not make such an impression upon us as they do--if we did but believe the things of eternity as we ought. Matthew Henry

We must not forget that the issues of eternity, are settled in time. Arthur Pink

The great weight of eternity, hangs upon the small wire of time! Thomas Brooks

A mistake about your soul, is a mistake for eternity! J.C. Ryle

"So teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." Psalm 90:12 
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The Effectiveness of God's Way

Exodus 3

Yesterday we observed the ineffectiveness of Moses' attempt to liberate his people from Egyptian slavery, but today we see him given a second chance to do it God's way. If we could learn the lessons Moses learned about the dangers of self-reliance and the advantages of depending on the Lord, we would save ourselves much hardship. 

When we choose to cooperate with God and submit to His way, He will do amazing things in and through us. Despite Moses' past failure, the Lord still used him to accomplish the divine plan, but only after he became usable--that is, humbled and broken of self-will. Just consider what God achieved when Moses did it His way.  

* He showed what great things He could do through one yielded, dependent person. 

* He got more done in less time, and with fewer resources. There was no insurrection or long, drawn-out war--just a dramatic display of His power.

* He proved the superiority of His way by freeing over two million people without the loss of a single Hebrew life. 

* He sent impoverished slaves out of bondage with their captors' riches (Ex. 3:21-22). 

* He proved to both the Israelites and the Egyptians that He alone is the God of heaven and earth. 

* He received all the glory.  

Our past failures never prevent God's willingness or ability to use us. In fact, our weakness is a great opportunity for the display of His glory. In our own strength, we are totally ineffective. But when we submit to the Lord's authority, we can experience His victory in whatever He calls us to do.

~Dr. Charles F. Stanley~