The Saving Life of Christ by Major W. Ian Thomas

Page 13 ~ “Christ did not die simply that you might be saved from a bad conscience or even to remove the stain of past failure, but to “clear the decks” for divine action.

Page 20 ~ “How stupid it would be to buy a car with a powerful engine under the hood and then to spend the rest of your days pushing it! Thwarted and exhausted, you would wish to discard it as a useless thing! Yet to some of you who are Christians, this may be God’s word to your heart. When God redeemed you through the precious blood of His dear Son, He placed, in the language of my illustration, a powerful engine under the hood – nothing less than the resurrection life of God the Son, made over to you in the person of God the Holy Spirit. Then stop pushing! Step in and switch on and expose the perplexity – no matter how threatening – to the divine energy that is available.”

Page 55 ~ “Where suggestion becomes desire, desire becomes intent, and the intent becomes an act – the act becomes a memory and that memory is hung like a picture upon the wall of your imagination, in the picture gallery of your mind. When later in your thoughts you wander through the picture gallery, you see the memory on the wall, and this memory itself becomes suggestion, and this suggestion becomes desire, and this desire may become intent, and if this intent becomes an act, you will then have hanging on the wall two memories, and the process can begin all over again with double force!”

Thomas, Maj. W. Ian. The Saving Life of Christ. Zondervan: Grand Rapids, Michigan. 1961. ISBN# 0-310-33262-1