Cyprian Quotes

Hearken, my believing reader. What is the cause of your weakness? Is it not because the fountain of life is little used? Is it not because you are resting on old experiences, and not daily gathering new manna—daily drawing new strength from Christ?

The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going.

I have reached out my hand, I have plucked the fruits of the Gospel, I have eaten of them, and they are sweet, yea, above all that is sweet.

Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

When we share Christ, the Truth behind our transformation, we are offering people an opportunity to be transformed.

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?

We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.

Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.

Let your tears fall because of sin, but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man.

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives.

Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. 'All my fresh springs shall be in thee.'

The fact is, we are leaky vessels, and we have to keep right under the fountain all the time to keep full of Christ, and so have fresh supply.

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.

When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.

Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists.

We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift-the gift that liberates souls from sin's power.

The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost.

Do not despair, dear heart, but come to the Lord with all your jagged wounds, black bruises, and running sores. He alone can heal, and He delights to do it. It is our Lord's office to bind up the brokenhearted, and He is gloriously at home at it.