Worldliness (18)
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If friends will not walk in the narrow way with us, we must not walk in the broad way to please them. Health is not infectious but disease is.
That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.
I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.
Go offer your employer how much you offer God, see how long you last.
If you allow your love of creature comforts — or even your pleasure in family and loved ones — to outrun your love for the Lord, you cannot be a victorious soldier for Christ.The Christian in Complete Armour, 1:72
There are some in this day who fancy they have a good hope because they like hearing the Gospel. They are fond of hearing good sermons. They will go miles to listen to some favourite preacher, and will even weep and be much affected by his words. To see them in church one would think, "Surely these are the disciples of Christ, surely these are excellent Christians!" - And yet these very people can plunge into every folly and gaiety of the world. Night after night they can go with their whole heart to the opera, the theatre, or the ball.Old Paths, Chapter 4, 51
"The French Due d'Alva could say, when he was asked by Henry the Fourth whether he had seen the eclipse of the sun, that he had so much business to do upon earth, that he had no time to look up to heaven. Sure I am, the Christian may say with more truth and conscience, that he hath so much business to do for heaven, that he hath no time to mind vain or earthly things."Lectures to my Students
The main reason why men dote upon the world, and damn their souls to get the world, is, because they are not acquainted with a greater glory!Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices
Oh, you who want unfailing comfort, I commend you to Christ! In Him alone there is no failure. Rich men are disappointed in their treasures. Learned men are disappointed in their books. Husbands are disappointed in their wives. Wives are disappointed in their husbands. Parents are disappointed in their children. Statesmen are disappointed when, after many a struggle, they attain place and power. They find out, to their cost, that it is more pain than pleasure-that it is disappointment, annoyance, incessant trouble, worry, vanity, and vexation of spirit. But no man was ever disappointed in Christ. Holiness (Chapter 20)
The Christian life is a life of non-conformity.
when two things are contrary or diametrically opposed to one another, to receive the one is to reject the other. Since there is no affinity or friendship between the gospel and the world, to receive the gospel is to reject the world. This demonstrates just how radical the act of receiving the gospel can be. To receive and follow the gospel call is to reject all that can be seen with the eye and held in the hand in exchange for what cannot be seen. It is to reject personal autonomy and the right to self-government in order to enslave oneself to a Messiah who died two thousand years ago as an enemy of the state and a blasphemer. It is to reject the majority and its views in order to join oneself to a berated and seemingly insignificant minority called the church. It is to risk everything in this one and only life in the belief that this impaled prophet is the Son of God and the Savior of the world. To receive the gospel is not merely to pray a prayer asking Jesus to come into one's heart, but it is to put away the world and embrace the fullness of the claims of Christ.
He who boasts of being one of God's elect, while he is willfully and habitually living in sin, is only deceiving himself, and talking wicked blasphemy.Holiness, Ch2
There is an Athenian love of novelty abroad, and a morbid distaste for
anything old and regular, and in the beaten path of our forefathers.
Thousands will crowd to hear a new voice and a new doctrine, without
considering for a moment whether what they hear is true.--There is an
incessant craving after any teaching which is sensational, and exciting,
and rousing to the feelings.--There is an unhealthy appetite for a sort of
spasmodic and hysterical Christianity. The religious life of many is little
better then spiritual dram-drinking, and the "meek and quiet spirit"
which St. Peter commends is clean forgotten. ( 1 Peter 3:4.) Crowds, and
crying, and hot rooms, and high-flown singing, and an incessant rousing
of the emotions, are the only things which many care for.--Inability to
distinguish differences in doctrine is spreading far and wide, and so long
as the preacher is "clever" and "earnest," hundreds seem to think it must
be all right, and call you dreadfully "narrow and uncharitable" if you hint
that he is unsound! Holiness, Introduction
Don't be duped by the gurus of the age. They are here today and gone tomorrow. One enslaving fad follows another. Thirty years from now today's tattoos will not be marks of freedom, but indelible reminders of conformity.Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die (59)
If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!
Large numbers of Americans...profess belief in God but live like atheists.
Many of us have become wordly. You think that wordly means that you say certain words. Wordly means that you sometimes don't have courage. That sometimes you don't speak truthfully. Wordliness is saying well someone was offended and we need to apologize. Maybe they should have been offended. We worship a guy who got murdered. Sermon - Christ Controversy and Cutting words
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