When you’re safe on eternity’s shore will you wish you could live your life o’er? When He asks for the fruit of your labors will you offer Him idle hands?
– Anonymous –
Anonymous
We Must Be Right With God
Brethren, it is just so much humbug to be waiting for this, night after night, month after month, if we ourselves are not right with God. I must ask myself—”Is my heart pure? Are my hands clean?”
– Comment from the Hebrides Revival –
Brought to the Valley of Vision
Lord, High and Holy, meek and lowly,
Thou hast brought me to the valley of vision,
where I live in the depths but see thee in the heights;
hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold thy glory.
Let me learn by paradox
that the way down is the way up,
that to be low is to be high,
that the broken heart is the healed heart,
that the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit,
that the repenting soul is the victorious soul,
that to have nothing is to possess all,
that to bear the cross is to wear the crown,
that to give is to receive,
that the valley is the place of vision.
Lord, in the daytime stars can be seen from deepest wells,
and the deeper the wells the brighter thy stars shine;
Let me find thy light in my darkness,
thy life in my death,
they joy in my sorrow,
thy grace in my sin,
thy riches in my poverty,
thy glory in my valley.
– taken from The Valley of Vision –
(a collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions)
The Distance Between a Problem and Solution – Anonymous
The shortest distance between a problem and the solution is the distance between your knees and the floor.
– Anonymous –
Holiness is Only Possible with the Holy Spirit – Anonymous
Holiness is an impossibility—without the Holy Spirit.
– Anonymous –
Tearless Prayers – Unknown
Beware of prayerless tears and beware of tearless prayers.
– Unknown –
Adversity Reveals Character – Unknown
Adversity doesn’t build character; it reveals it.
– Unknown –
Trying to Eat Without Swallowing – Anonymous
Reading the Bible without meditating on it is like trying to eat without swallowing.
– Anonymous –
Hiding Behind the Bible – Anonymous Convert
I went to hear Mr. Moody with no other idea than to have something to laugh at. I knew he was no scholar, and I felt sure I could find many flaws in his argument. But I found I could not get at the man. He stood there hiding behind the Bible and just fired one Bible text after another at me till they went home to my heart straight as bullets from a rifle. I tell you, Moody’s power is in the way he has his Bible at the tip of his tongue.
– Anonymous Convert –