Shanktified!

“If men used as much care in uprooting vices and implanting virtues as they do in discussing problems, there would not be so much evil and scandal in the world, or such laxity in religious organizations. On the day of judgment, surely, we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived.”

Thomas Ë Kempis
The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, Ch. 3

“As God can send a nation of people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere, upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm, unskillful guides,”
George Whitfield

“We need more Democrats in the Senate—like Custer needed more arrows.” —Ronald Reagan

Another great quote from a book I’m reading, Because We Love Him - Embracing a Life of Holiness:

With every sin comes the saddest of all consequences: the tradgedy of what might have been had we obeyed God.

How would you answer the question: Have you committed your life to Christ?

I don’t want to get bogged down in symantics but this was pretty powerful to me.

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Hat tip: to Todd Friel and the WOTM Radio team.

“Repentance that is not ongoing is not genuine; faith that does not involve surrender is not adequate; a life in which holiness does not develop is not Christian.”
~ Clyde Cranford

“There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of Hell, but the mere pleasure of God.”

“… Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it; he depends upon himself for his own security; he flatters himself in what he has done, in what he is now doing, or what he intends to do. Every one lays out matters in his own mind how he shall avoid damnation, and flatters himself that he contrives well for himself, and that his schemes will not fail. They hear indeed that there are but few saved, and that the greater part of men that have died heretofore are gone to hell; but each one imagines that he lays out matters better for his own escape than others have done.”
~ Johnatan Edwards

Think you are having a bad day???

“There I was honored with having stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cats thrown at me.” ~ George Whitefield

“It is absolutely necessary to the preaching of the gospel of Christ that men be warned as to what will happen if they continue in their sins. Ho, ho, sir surgeon, you are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill! You hope to heal the sick without their knowing it. You therefore flatter them; and what happens? They laugh at you; they dance upon their own graves. At last they die! Your delicacy is cruelty; your flatteries are poisons; you are a murderer. Shall we keep men in a fool’s paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumbers from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God we will not.”

Source: Coming Judgment of the Secrets of Men - C.H. Spurgeon

Picking a justice isn’t about rewarding individuals or satisfying gender, race or diversity concerns. It’s about protecting our sacred liberties. Since the best way to do that is to find the brightest constitutional scholars with the requisite character and sound judgment, then that is precisely what the president should do. That’s not elitism; it’s essential constitutional stewardship.
~ David Limbaugh