Daily Quote---February 24, 2015

"Perils as well as privileges
 attend the higher Christian life.
 The nearer we come to God,
 the thicker the hosts of darkness
 in heavenly places."

 Written By: A. B. Simpson

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"So long as we are occupied with any

 other object than God Himself,

 there will be neither rest for the heart

 nor peace for the mind.

 But when we receive all that enters

 our lives as from His hand,

 then, no matter what may be our

 circumstances or surroundings-----

whether in a hovel or

 prison-dungeon,

 or at a martyr's stake-----

we shall be enabled to say,

 " The lines are fallen unto

 me in pleasant places"

 (Ps. 16:6). 

But that is the language of faith,

 not of sight nor of sense."

 Written By: A.W. Pink

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"The most critical need of the church

 at this moment is men,

 bold men,

 free men.

 The church must seek,

 in prayer and much humility,

 the coming again of men made

 of the stuff of which prophets

 and martyrs are made."

 Written By: A. W. Tozer

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"Never did the church so much prosper

 and so truly thrive as when she was

 baptized in the blood.

 The ship of the church never sails

 so gloriously along as when the bloody

 spray of her martyrs falls on her deck.

 We must suffer and we must die,

 if we are ever to conquer this world for Christ."

"The highest honor that God can confer

 upon his children is the

 blood-red crown of martyrdom.

 The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions.

 The regalia of the kings that God has made,

 are their troubles,

 their sorrows,

 and their griefs.

 Griefs exalt us, 

and troubles lift us."

 Written By; Charles Spurgeon 

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"The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue,

 both in endurance and in number. 

So blinded are we to our passions,

 that we suffer more to insure perdition than salvation."

 Written By: Hannah More

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"When the Christians,

 upon these occasions,

 received martyrdom,

 they were ornamented,

 and crowned with garlands of flowers;

 for which they,

 in heaven,

 received eternal crowns of glory."

 Written By: John Foxe

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"We may never be martyrs but we can die

 to self,

 to sin, to the world,

 to our plans and ambitions.

 That is the significance of baptism;

 we died with Christ and rose to new life."

 Written By: Vance Hayner

   

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