Octavius Winslow quote that touched my heart….

by Laurel on April 14, 2008

in Biblical Message

heart“Bring your heart with its profoundest emptiness, its most startling discovery of sin, its lowest frame, its deepest sorrow, and sink it into the depths of the Saviour’s love. . . . Christ’s love touching your hard heart, will dissolve it; touching your cold heart, will warm it; touching your sinful heart, will purify it; touching your sorrowful heart, will soothe it; touching your wandering heart, will draw it back to Jesus. Only bring your heart to Christ’s love.”

- Octavius Winslow, The Sympathy of Christ (Harrisonburg, Va.: Sprinkle Publications, 1994), 165.

HT: First Importance

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{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Kim 04.15.08 at 7:33 am

All I can say Laurel is wow. Thanks so much for sharing, as that touched my heart as well. It says it all and says it so very well.

2 Crystal 04.15.08 at 6:29 pm

Wow that was powerful!
Thanks for sharing!

3 Iris 04.16.08 at 9:20 am

Just beautiful, Laurel. It is so true through - He can do all the things mentioned in the quote - if we let Him…

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