Aaron

“The main evidence of maturity in the Christian life is a growing love for God and for God’s people, as well as a love for lost souls. It has well been said that love is the “circulatory system” of the body of Christ.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Wise: 1 Corinthians: Discern the Difference Between Man's Knowledge and God's Wisdom

“Many often err and accomplish little or nothing because they try to become learned rather than to live well.”
― Bernard of Clairvaux, 10 Jewels of Christian Mysticism: A Selection of Western Tradition Primary Texts

“They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks,” is immensely more forcible than to say in general that they will convert their weapons of war into implements of agriculture.”
― John Albert Broadus, On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons

“To turn away from the lifeless preachers and publishers of the day—may involve a real cross. Your motives will be misconstrued, your words perverted, and your actions misinterpreted. The sharp arrows of false report will be directed against you. You will be called proud and self-righteous, because you refuse to fellowship empty professors. You will be termed censorious and bitter—if you condemn in plain speech—the subtle delusions of Satan. You will be dubbed narrow-minded and uncharitable, because you refuse to join in singing the praises of the “great” and “popular” men of the day. More and more, you will be made to painfully realize—that the path which leads unto eternal life is “narrow” and that FEW there are who find it. May the Lord be pleased to grant unto each of us—the hearing ear and obedient heart! “Take heed what you hear” and read!”
― Arthur W. Pink