Sin and Compromise Quotes for the Remnant

June 14, 2005

"Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender."
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)

"Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)

"The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way."
William Barclay

“Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.”
Chuck Smith

"The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us."
Jerry Bridges

"Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves."
Randy Alcorn

"People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."
D.A. Carson

"Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations."
Dennis Green

"Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy...He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense."
A. W. Tozer

"Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and to bring Him nearer to our own image."
A. W. Tozer

"'Go and sin no more' didn't have an expiration date on it like a carton of milk and wasn't intended to soothe the conscience until the next adulterous encounter. If we believed this, we would live like we do"
Dennis E. Green

"The spotless bride often looks more like a self-absorbed whore. We feast on the bounty provided by our husband while neglecting his wishes that don't excite and please us. We seek to be fulifilled by our selfish pursuits rather than by serving Him."
Dennis E. Green

"Calling someone a worldly Christian is like calling someone a godly pagan."
Dennis E. Green

"Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin."
John Owen

"Most of God's people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within."
Robert Murray McCheyne

"Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth."
Matthew Henry (1662-1714)