Jonathan Franzone

“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

“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

“The cumulative evidence of the Scriptures points definitely toward the unified character of the biblical covenants. God’s multiple bonds with his people ultimately unite into a single relationship. Particular details of the covenants may vary. A definite line of progress may be noted. Yet the covenants of God are one.”
― O. Palmer Robertson, The Christ of the Covenants

“No flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.”
― Thomas Watson