Ancient Words from Ancient Folks

'Pride is Satan's disease. It is so base a disease, that God would rather see his dearest children buffeted by Satan, than that in pride they should be like Satan.' ~ Thomas Brooks

'Faith stands in God's power and is robed in God's majesty; it wears the royal apparel, and rides on the King's horse, for it is the grace which the King delights to honor.' ~ C. H. Spurgeon

 ‘I am trying to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him. ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus Christ as a good moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing that we cannot say. A man who was merely a man and said the things that Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic on the level of a man saying he was a poached egg—or else the devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God—or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit on Him and kill Him as a demon; or else you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.'~ C. S. Lewis

'We were created with great capacities for God.' ~ Oswald Chambers

‘Beloved, do you know what it is to commune with God? Words are poor vehicles for this fellowship; but what a blessed thing it is! Proofs of the existence of God are altogether superfluous to those of us who are in the habit of conversing with the Eternal One. If anybody were to write an essay to prove the existence of my wife, or my son, I certainly should not read it, except for the amusement of the thing; and proofs of the existence of God to the man who communes with God are much the same.’ ~ C. H. Spurgeon