Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.
– Ravi Zacharias –
Pray to God for patience. Patience is a flower of God’s planting. Pray that it may grow in your heart, and send forth its sweet perfume.
– Thomas Watson –
from The Godly Man’s Picture, 1666
Patience must not be an inch shorter than affliction.
– Thomas Adams –
1583–1653
I want my spirit to be a listening spirit waiting to hear what God says.
– Andrew Murray –
I want my spirit to be a listening spirit waiting to hear what God says.
– Andrew Murray –
If no immediate choice has to be made, one should wait. The Lord orders our stops as well as our steps. When the time comes that a decision must be made, one can proceed in the direction that seems best. As you conscientiously seek His guidance, He will not let you make a wrong choice.
– George Müller –
Sin is . . .
the dare of God’s justice,
the rape of His mercy,
the jeer of His patience,
the slight of His power
the contempt of His love!
– John Bunyan –
The question isn’t were you challenged. The question is were you changed?
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Wherever there is complaint of a lack of workers or of competent helpers for God’s work, prayer holds the promise for their supply. There is no work for God where He is not ready and able to provide workers for it. It may take time and importunity, but Christ’s command to ask the Lord of the harvest is the pledge that the prayer will be heard: “I tell you, he will get up and give him as much as he needs” (Luke 11:8).
– Andrew Murray –
from Teach Me to Pray
