Kindness is the hands of love, with the mind of Christ.
– Stanley Gale in A Vine-Ripened Life
Category: PASSION Quotes
Prayer Quote of the Week
From the fact that prayer is so urgently commanded, we ought to conclude that we should by no means despise our prayers, but rather prize them highly.
– Martin Luther
Classic Quote
Holiness comes from Christ. It is the result of vital union with Him. It is the fruit of being a living branch of the True Vine.
– J.C. Ryle
A Thorn Bush
Impatience is the thorn bush that grows in the soil of pride. Pride is all about us – our desire, our preference, and our convenience reside at the center of our universe. Others revolve around us. When people don’t do what we want, when we want we react with irritation – sometimes contained in resentment and bitterness, sometimes expressed in rage and venom.
– Stanley Gale in A Vine-Ripened Life
A Holy Man
A holy man will endeavor to shun every known sin, and to keep every known commandment.
A holy man will strive to be like our Lord Jesus Christ.
A holy man will follow after meekness, longsuffering, gentleness, patience, kind tempers, government of his tongue.
A holy man will follow after temperance and self-denial.
A holy man will follow after charity and brotherly kindness.
A holy man will follow after a spirit of mercy and benevolence towards others.
A holy man will follow after purity of heart. He will dread all filthiness and uncleanness of spirit, and seek to avoid all things that might draw him into it.
A holy man will follow after the fear of God.
A holy man will follow after humility.
A holy man will follow after faithfulness in all the duties and relations of life.
A holy man will follow after spiritual mindedness.
– J. C. Ryle in Holiness
Prayer Quote of the Week
Prayer is not an option for the believer but a divinely ordained duty, a duty done in obedience, rooted in love for God…. Such love draw the believer to the Father, leaning upon the Son, and depending upon the Spirit in prayer. The true believer prays because he has been loved and because he loves is return.
– Jonathan Edwards
Classic Quote
Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing in God’s judgment – hating what He hates – loving what He loves – and measuring everything in this world by the standard of His Word.
– J. C. Ryle
Rest
If we find that we are not at rest, it is because we are not resting in God’s goodness.
– Philip Graham Ryken in Discovering God
Prayer Quote of the Week
Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him the mind of Christ, the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying.
– E.M. Bounds
Classic Quote
No one ever said at the end of his course that he had been too holy and lived too near to God.
—J.C. Ryle
Brian J. Mikul 