Have you read the great Reformation authors?

Every Christian should read the great Christian literature authored by the Reformers and Puritans. Without some familiarity with the great Christian authors of the past we have but a husk of truth. Here are some quotes about being caught up in the world and politics by some of the most notable authors from the past.

"The duty of the true Christian is clear and plain. Whatever others do, he must give all diligence to make his own calling and election sure. 

While others are occupied in national conflicts and political speculations, he must steadily seek first the kingdom of God."

J.C. Ryle

"An unsound heart, a rotten heart, 

is most taken up about the outside, —

informing that, and reforming that, and watching of that—

but as for the inside, 

there is no eye cast to see how all stands there."

Thomas Brooks

 "If we would talk less and pray more about them, 

things would be better than they are in the world: 

at least, we should be better enabled to bear them."

John Owen

"I see men for the most part spending their strength and time 

more to oppose things they disagree with 

than to practice the things they agree are most necessary."

John Owen

"The man that is most busy in censuring others is always least employed in examining himself."

Thomas Lye

"Study the Word more, and the concerns and interests of the world less."

John Flavel

"It is a just matter of lamentation that all the tokens of God's anger 

produce with many of us 

no better fruit but bold censures and loud clamors, 

instead of humiliation for our own sins, and the due preparation to take up own cross, and follow Christ in a suffering path."

John Flavel