Quotes about Deliverance

There is no choice for us; we must either deny self or deny Christ. Deliverance from self-life means to be a vessel overflowing with love to everybody all day.

Not to be occupied with thy sin, but to be occupied with God, brings deliverance from self.

if you would enter into full fellowship with Christ in His death, and know the full deliverance from self, humble yourself. This is your one duty. Place yourself before God in your utter helplessness; consent heartily to the fact of your impotence to slay or make alive yourself; sink down into your own nothingness, in the spirit of meek and patient and trustful surrender to God.

To live the life of Christ means to him to be delivered from the life of self; the will of Christ is to him the only path of liberty from the slavery of his own evil self-will.

Whether we speak of the death to self or a sinking down in humility and meekness before God or faith in the Lamb of God, it all means one thing—a deliverance from self to find our liberty and our blessedness in the living sacrifice of ourselves for all around us. THE END

Redemption is too often looked at from its negative side as deliverance from: its real glory is the positive element of being redeemed unto Himself.

Grant, Almighty God, since thou hast delivered to us a sure rule of worship, which cannot deceive us, and since thy Son became for us a perfect master of all wisdom and of solid piety, that we may obediently follow whatever he prescribes for us..."

There is no king saved by the multitude of an host; a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy."   (Psalm 33:16-18)

For in our hope we are saved.

From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night good Lord deliver us!

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

Only people who know they have burdens can be delivered from them.