Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee more faithfully; to give and not to count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labour and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do Thy will, O Lord our God.
– A Traditional Prayer –
Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary.
– Thomas Betterton –
Where there is fear of God to keep the house, the enemy can find no way to enter.
– Francis of Assisi –
Yet more, Oh my God, more toil, more agony, more suffering for Thee.
– Francis Xavier –
I do not want people who come with me under certain reservations. In battle you need soldiers who fear nothing.
– Pere Didon –
The soul which gives itself wholly and without reserve to God is filled with His own peace; and the closer we draw to our God, so much the stronger and more steadfast and tranquil shall we become.
– Jean Nicolas Grou –
True peace is when the soul revolves around its center, Almighty God, craving for nothing but what God continually supplies. Since the soul is large enough to contain the infinite God, nothing less than Himself can satisfy or fill it.
– Edward B. Pusey –
Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.
– Horace Bushnell –
In biblical thinking, genuine love exists only when good works are done in a context where God rather than the doer gets the credit.
– Daniel Fuller –