“A nominal Christian is content with proving the way of salvation by a crucified Redeemer. But the true Christian loves it, delights in it, glories in it, and shudders at the very thought of glorying in anything else…Let all you joys flow from the contemplation of his cross.”
- Charles Simeon
“By faith he triumphs over…smiles and enticements: he sees that all that is in the world, suited to gratify the desires of the flesh or the eye, is not only to be avoided as sinful, but as incompatible with his best pleasures.”
- John Newton
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Those quotes are both great. For that first one, I get caught so many times trying to be the one that tries to persuade and views it as an intellectual argument, instead of letting it be an overflow of my joy. For the second one, it reminds me of a way that Piper defined holiness--as a person that is finding so much joy in their relationship with Christ that they are not finding any enticement of pleasures in sin. I wish so badly I could get there right now. Where did you find these?
I found them in a book I read at the beginning of the summer by Piper entitled The Roots of Endurance. It is a short book with mini-biographies on Charles Simeon, John Newton and William Wilberforce. It is good stuff.
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