A test of a Christian’s character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and what his attitude is after everything has left him except Jesus. You will never know down here that Christ is all you need until Christ is all you have left. You will never be able to tell the world for sure that He will do in a crisis unless you learn how to live in a crisis.
– Lester Roloff –
When Paul mentions the matter of conversation, he says, “See that your speech is edifying”— good building-up stuff, not sanctimonious talk, but
– Oswald Chambers –
When the worst happens in the life of a child of God the best remains, and the very best is yet to be.
– Corrie ten Boom –
We all need to go to Arabia to learn lessons like these. The Lord Himself was led up into the wilderness. And in one form or another, every soul who has done a great work in the world has passed through similar periods of obscurity, suffering, disappointment or solitude.
– FB Meyer –
1847-1929
Prayer is not meant to develop us, but to develop the life of God in us after the new birth.
– Oswald Chambers –
Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?
– Thomas Watson –
from The Great Gain of Godliness, 1682
You are what you are when you are alone!
– Unknown –
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
– Oscar Wilde –
Learn to say, “No,” and it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
– Charles Spurgeon –
