Tag: A.B. Simpson

“The figure of the tent suggests the idea of constant vicissitudes and humility. I fear that splendid edifices have been the greatest curse of the church. ‘Enlarge the place of your tent.’ He does not say build a temple.” (p158)

“This is the secret of successful work: to know Christ in this blissful and intimate relationship and to receive our work, by virtue of our union with Him as the fruit of our marriage with the King of Kings.” (p159)

-AB Simpson
A Larger Christian Life, “Enlarged Work”

“We do not grow into sanctification. Rather, we grow from sanctification into maturity.” (p141)

“While it is true that all the resources are divinely provided, this does not justify a spirit of passive negligence on our part. There is to be no languid leaning on God’s grace, no dreamy fatalism based on His almight purpose and power. Instead there is to be a strenuous and unceasing energy on our part in meeting Him with the cooperation of faith, vigilance and obedience.” (p143)

“Are we ‘making every effort’ to make the most of God’s divine resources, of His ‘very great and precious promises,’ of ‘the divine nature’ within us?” (p145)

“Growth is the remedy for declension, and we must grow or go backward.” (p148)

“The end of our growth will be an eternal reward.” (p149)

-AB Simpson
A Larger Christian Life, “Spiritual Growth

“Lifting our sinking form as a mother would life her tiny infant, He bids us no longer stand even in His help. That is what it means to go from strength to strength – from our own strength to His increased strength and on to the absolute all-sufficiency of God Himself!” (p113)

“This strength is strength that carries us in victory through the whole range of our Christian experience.” (p120)

“Finally, this strength is established and perfected by spiritual discipline.” (p123)

-AB Simpson
A Larger Christian Life, “Strength to Strength”

“Redemption, therefore, is not merely the restoration of Adamic holiness, happiness and honour. It is the uniting of man with the Son of God and the exalting of the redeemed sinner to fellowship with a higher Being.” (p105)

-AB Simpson
A Larger Christian Life, “Grace Abounding”

“When God allows the enemy to appear in our lives, it is that we may do him irreparable and eternal injury, thus glorifying God!” (p86)

“the battle will bring us benefits and contribute to our own and the Master’s cause.” (p87)

“The richest treasure of your life is held by Satan. He is too shrewd to waste his strength on things that are worthless.” (p92)

-AB Simpson
A Larger Christian Life, “More than Conquerors”

“Self-will mars our work for God and tries to force the chariots of God’s power and grace upon our own sidetracks.” (p78)

“The church of Christ is no autocracy where one man can be a dictator or judge, but a fellowship where One alone is Master.” (p80)

“The love of Jesus is the divinely appointed prescription for the death of self.” (p80)

“The more we try to fight self, the more it clings to us. But that moment we turn away from it and look to Christ, He fills all the consciousness and disperses everything with His own presence.” (p82)

-AB Simpson
A Larger Christian Life, “Death to Self”

“Nothing so thoroughly sweeps away the littleness of our concepts of God, the pettiness of our faith or the narrowness of our love, like a steady gaze into His face!” (p63)

– AB Simpson
A Larger Christian Life, “The Larger Life”

“Fill Full (Gk: Plaroo), so full that there will be no space left empty.” (p35)

“This filling is connected with a living Person. We are not filled with an influence, a sensation, a set of ideas and truths or a blessing. We are filled with a Person.” (p35)

“To be filled with Christ is not only to be filled with divine life in every part, but it is to be filled every moment.” (p42)

“If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we will either grow stagnant or empty. It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.” (p42)

– AB Simpson
A Larger Christian Life, “Filled with the Spirit”