I have one desire now — to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Favorites
Preach, die, be forgotten – Count Zinzendorf
Preach the gospel, die, and be forgotten.
– Count Zinzendorf –
Do all from a perfect oneness – Oswald Chambers
All I do should be biased on a perfect oneness with Him, not on a self-willed determination to be godly.
– Oswald Chambers –
Peace Amidst Trouble – Thomas Watson
If God be our God, He will give us peace in trouble. When there is storm without, He will make peace within. The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble.
– Thomas Watson –
Are you willing to have this single purpose in life? – Oswald Chambers
Am I willing to be of no value to this age or this life except for one purpose and one alone—to be used to disciple men and women to the Lord Jesus Christ?
– Oswald Chambers –
A Baptism of Pure Love – Samuel Logan Brengle
Do you want to know what holiness is? It is pure love. Do you want to know what the baptism of the Holy Spirit is? It is not a mere sentiment. It is not a happy sensation that passes away in a night. It is a baptism of love that brings every thought into captivity to the Lord Jesus (see 2 Cor. 10:5); casts out all fear (see 1 John 4:18); burns up doubt and unbelief as fire burns flax; makes you ‘meek and lowly in heart’ (Matt. 11:29); makes you hate uncleanness, lying and deceit, a flattering tongue, and every evil way with a perfect hatred; makes heaven and hell eternal realities; makes you patient and gentle with the disobedient and sinful; makes you ‘pure … peaceable … open to reason, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere’ (James 3:17), and brings you into perfect and unbroken sympathy with the Lord Jesus Christ in His toil and travail to bring a lost and rebellious world back to God.
– Samuel Logan Brengle –
Definition or Demonstration – Leonard Ravenhill
The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it’s waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Shake the World – John Wesley
Give me a hundred men who fear nothing but God, and who hate nothing but sin, and who know nothing but Jesus Christ and Him crucified, and I will shake the world.
– John Wesley –
I give up all my own plans and purposes – Betty Scott Stam
Lord, I give up all my own plans and purposes. All my own desires and hopes and accept Your will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all, utterly to You to be Yours forever. Fill me and seal me with Your Holy Spirit. Use me as You will, send me where you will, work out Your whole will in my life at any cost, now and forever. To me to live is Christ. Amen.
– Betty Scott Stam –