Excellent, practical, biblical teaching that remains relevant today.
A few representative quotes from the book:
The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves to go to hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.
God offers life, but not an improved old life. The life He offers is life out of death. It stands always on the far side of the cross.
In the words of Augustine, “But Thou, O Lord, who ever livest, and in whom nothing dies, since before the world was, and, indeed, before all that can be called ‘before,’ Thou existest, and art the God and Lord of all creatures; and with Thee fixedly abide the causes of all unstable things and the changing sources of all things changeable, and the eternal reasons of all things reasoning and temporal.”
The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is not true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only. Where real repentance is, there is obedience; for repentance is not only sorrow for past failures and sins, it is a determination to begin now to do the will of God as He reveals it to us.
The teaching of the Bible is that God is Himself the end for which man was created.
True faith brings a spiritual and moral transformation and an inward witness that can not be mistaken.
The purpose of Christ’s redeeming work was to make it possible for bad men to become good – deeply, radically and finally.
“O God, please give me three wounds; the wound of contrition and the wound of compassion and the wound of longing after God.” Then she added this little postscript which I think is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read: “This I ask without condition.”
“O God, that I might want Thee so badly that it becomes a wound in my heart that I can’t get over.”
God loves to be longed for, He loves to be sought, For He sought us Himself with such longing and love; He died for desire of us, marvellous thought! And He longs for us now to be with Him above.* (*Frederick W. Faber)
God puts immortality in all our loving efforts for Him and shares His eternity with all who love and trust Him.
Every Christian should master the Bible, or at least spend hours and days and years trying. And always he should read his Bible, as George Muller said, “with meditation.” After the Bible the next most valuable book for the Christian is a good hymnal. Let any young Christian spend a year prayerfully meditating on the hymns of Watts and Wesley alone and he will become a fine theologian. Then let him read a balanced diet of the Puritans and the Christian mystics. The results will be more wonderful than he could have dreamed.
The truly spiritual man is indeed something of an oddity. He lives not for himself but to promote the interests of Another. He seeks to persuade people to give all to his Lord and asks no portion or share for himself. He delights not to be honoured but to see his Saviour glorified in the eyes of men. His joy is to see his Lord promoted and himself neglected.
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