Sin and Compromise Quotes for the Remnant

June 14, 2005

"The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it."
John Owen

"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)

"In the homes of many Western Christians, hours are sometimes spent listening to worldly music. In our homes loud music can also be heard, but it is only to cover the talk about the gospel and the underground work so that neighbors may not overhear it and inform the secret police. How underground Christians rejoice on those rare occasions when they meet a serious Christian from the West!"
Richard Wurmbrand

"How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?"
Leonard Ravenhill

"Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don't fit our testimonies."
Leonard Ravenhill

"We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!"
James Hudson Taylor

"Today’s church wants to be raptured from responsibility."
Leonard Ravenhill

"Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like a cheapjack's wares. The sacraments, the forgiveness of sin, and the consolations of religion are thrown away at cut-rate prices. Grace is represented as the Church's inexhaustible treasury, from which she showers blessings with generous hands, without asking questions or fixing limits. Grace without price; grace without cost! And the essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing. Since the cost was infinite, the possibilities of using and spending it are infinite. What would grace be, if it were not cheap?

. . . In such a Church the world finds a cheap covering for its sins; no contrition is required, still less any real desire to be delivered from sin. . .

Cheap grace means the justification of sin without the justification of the sinner. Grace alone does everything, they say, and so everything can remain as it was before. . . .

Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, (it is) baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy"
Spurgeon

"Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it, or neglected to fill up each part of it with duty to the utmost of my ability and capacity"
David Brainerd

"Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence?"
Charles Finney

"You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?"
Charles Spurgeon

"Anything that effects our decisions besides that of the Glory of God and His Will Alone is an idol. Why are people so free to do as they please and make decisions off of pleasures, feelings or emotion? It is because they have not been taken captive by the Lord Jesus Christ and He alone does not rule in that life, there are rivals on the throne."
David Wilkerson

Posted: June 14, 2005 6:08 PM