All my requests are lost in one: “Father, Thy will be done!”
– Charles Wesley –
All my requests are lost in one: “Father, Thy will be done!”
– Charles Wesley –
Turn your loneliness into solitude, and your solitude into prayer.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
from The Path of Loneliness
A man is dead when he no longer resists the will of God in anything … You must go to God as a lamb, to obey, follow and die.
– Thomas Haire –
I often overestimate my ability and underestimate my need.
– Mr. Gaston –
It is but a vain thing to talk of going to heaven, if thou let thy heart be encumbered with those things that would hinder. Would you not say that such a man would be in danger of losing, though he run, if he fill his pockets with stones, hang heavy garments on his shoulders, and great lumpish shoes on his feet? So it is here. Thou talkest of going to heaven, and yet fillest thy pockets with stones; that is, fillest thy heart with this world; lettest that hang on thy shoulders with its profits and pleasures. Alas, alas! thou art widely mistaken. If thou intendest to win, thou must strip, thou must lay aside every weight, thou must be temperate in all things. Thou must so run.
– John Bunyan –
This is the very place meant by God to turn your eyes to Him.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
If God could set a table for His people in the wilderness, and feed three millions of Israelites for forty years, can he not give us our daily bread? I do not mean only the bread that perisheth, but also the Bread that cometh from above. If He feeds the birds of the air, surely he will feed his children made in His own image! If He numbers the very hairs of our head, he will take care to supply all our temporal wants.
– DL Moody –
Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.
– Brother Lawrence –
from The Practice of the Presence of God
No flesh shall glory in His presence, and the religious flesh is no more acceptable than the irreligious.
–T. Austin-Sparks –