Christ Lives Where Self Dies

“It is only when the last entrenchment of self-will has been surrendered that there can be a complete resurrection unto life. But when we are ready to say, “There is nothing that would dishonor Christ that I will not forsake, nothing that would bring glory to Him which I will not render or perform; I will give myself and all I have into His hands for time and for eternity; I will follow Christ whithersoever He goes,” Christ will not be long in taking full possession. With all His blessings He will enter our hearts, purging us from our evil, and so revealing himself to our inner consciousness that henceforth, in an unbroken line of deep, calm receptiveness, we may possess, and know that we possess, an indwelling Saviour.”

Thomas Cook

I Can Be Holy

“He who knows all my sins, who understands all my weaknesses and unworthiness, He commands me to “be…holy.” He from who all my help must come—He who knows that I can do nothing of myself, that in Him alone I have redemption—He commands me to “be…holy.” Then it must be possible. He has found out a ransom, He knows a cleansing power that is equal to the work, or he would never have spoken to my poor soul, saying, “Be ye holy.” Dark as it may be before me, impossible as it may seem to cleanse one so impure as I, yet “with God all things are possible.” And even in the case of a poor worm of earth, “all things are possible to him that believeth.”

                Let me no longer doubt; so long as the command is on record, and I am compelled to believe it is spoken to me, I must—I will believe that it is possible for even me to be holy.

~Jesse T. Peck

"Sin's greatest strength is the fact...that it comes incognito. In a thousand clever ways it disguises itself. It masks itself behind excuses, rationalizations, circumstances, and the influence of others. The cross strips the mask away and shows sin for the vicious monster it is, the utter, stark, rebellion against the love of God which is its real nature."
~W. J. Purkiser