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  • What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.

    Prayer   Believe   Causes  
    J.C. Ryle (1853). “A call to prayer”, p.30, Рипол Классик
  • A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

    Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”
  • The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties of Christians in cities, leads as naturally to the outvent of what Methodists call "revivals" as did the backslidings of the people in those days.

  • Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow-never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.606, Manonmani Publishers
  • There is only one way to be revived and healed from our backslidings so that we may become fruitful even in old age. We must take a steady look at the glory of Christ in His special character, in His grace and work, as shown to us in the Scripture.

    Character   Grace   Age  
  • Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls.

    Hurt   Prayer   People  
  • Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

    Mind   Littles   Failing  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.606, Manonmani Publishers
  • Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God.

    Prayer   Sick   Devil  
  • Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.

    Christian   Fall   Taste  
  • Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

    Christian   Fall   Men  
    J.C Ryle, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “PRACTICAL RELIGION”, Lulu.com
  • I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and trusting on Christ's help. Every fall without one exception came from venturing upon sinful ground or from venturing upon self-support.

    Fall   Men   Self  
    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 21, 1895.
  • I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

    Suffering   Wish   Ease  
  • The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up, nay, you have to cut every step with an ice axe; only with incessant labor in cutting and chipping can you make any progress... If you want to know how to backslide, leave off going forward. Cease going upward and you will go downward of necessity. You can never stand still.

    "The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 21: Sermons 1210-1270".
  • That however advanced any man may 'be-in' age or piety, he is still in danger of falling.

    Christian   Fall   Men  
    "Horæ Homileticæ: Or Discourses".
  • If repentance is neglected for an instant, one can lose the power of the Resurrection as he lives with the weakness of tepidity and the potential of his fall.

  • Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

    Prayer   Firsts   Neglect  
    J.C Ryle, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “PRACTICAL RELIGION”, Lulu.com
  • Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.

    Comfort   Easy   Prelude  
    Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, Solid Christian Books
  • Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.

    Jesus   Evil   Looks  
  • What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.

    Spiritual   Men   Crowns  
    George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.38
  • I'm starting to frighten myself, because I'm backsliding into my devil-may-care attitude. I'm sure it's going to catch up with me.

    Attitude   Devil   Care  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain, or we numb ourselves with the endless array of intoxicants available to us, from drugs to overwork, or we grow in empathy. Emptiness can transform into spaciousness; lack can become an agent of social action. But I think many of us struggle to remain on that third path without backsliding into the other two. I do.

    Pain   Revenge   Struggle  
    Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
  • If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put an end to, they compel them to fulfil their vows.

    Land   Scary   Vow  
  • Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you.

    Children   Married   Lord  
    Ellen G. White (2015). “The Complete Conflict of the Ages”, p.1234, Simon and Schuster
  • In every Christian's Heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross; if he refuses the cross, he remains on the throne. Perhaps this is at the bottom of the backsliding and worldliness among Gospel believers today. We want to be saved, but we insist that Christ do all the dying. No cross for us, no dethronement, no dying. We remain king within the little kingdom of man's soul and wear our tinsel crown with all the pride of a caesar; but we doom ourselves to shadows and weakness and spiritual sterility.

  • You can blame circumstances, but backsliding always begins in the heart.

  • The Christian life is never static. One must either grow in grace, or there will be backsliding and deterioration.

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