Matt Oost

“As a church, we now have many safe people, but we are lacking in holy people.”
― Thomas Jay Oord, Renovating Holiness

“the devil has no more cunning way of securing a long lease of life for any evil than getting Christian people and Christian Churches to give it their sanction.”
― Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John

“To-day is given us mainly that we may learn to know God better, and to love Him more, and to serve Him more joyfully.”
― Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John

“hearts here that love Jesus Christ and keep in unison with Him, and are sympathetic with His desires, will learn to know His will, and will re-echo the music that comes from Him. And if our supreme desire is to know what pleases Jesus Christ, depend upon it the desire will not be in vain, 'If any man wills to do His will he shall know of the doctrine.' Ninety per cent. of all our perplexities as to conduct come from our not having a pure and simple wish to do what is right in His sight, clearly supreme above all others.”
― Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John