Jonathan Franzone

“This generation may be a better age than the past, but there is an infinite distance between the betterment of an age by the force of an advancing civilization, and its betterment by the increase of holiness and Christlikeness by the energy of prayer.”
― E.M. Bounds, Pastor and Prayer: Why and How Pastors Ought to Pray

“A gracious wife satisfies a good husband, and silences a bad one.”
― George Swinnock

“How can I learn to love? I cannot, until the Spirit of God fills my heart with God’s love, and I long for God’s love in a very different sense from which I have sought it so selfishly, as a comfort and a joy and a happiness and a pleasure to myself. I cannot learn to love until I learn that God is love and to claim it and receive it as an indwelling power for self-sacrifice. I cannot learn to love until I see that my glory and my blessedness is to be like God and like Christ in giving up everything in myself for my fellow men. May God teach us that! Oh, the divine blessedness of the love with which the Holy Spirit can fill our hearts! The fruit of the Spirit is love.”
― Andrew Murray, Absolute Surrender (Updated and Annotated): The Blessedness of Forsaking All and Following Christ

“What we do on the Lord’s Day in God’s presence defines who we are. We are most authentically the Church when we gather around the Word, the Table, and the ordained minister on the Lord’s Day in corporate worship.”
― Jeffrey J. Meyers, The Lord's Service: The Grace of Covenant Renewal Worship