Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
– Hudson Taylor –
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
– Hudson Taylor –
If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.
– EM Bounds –
(1835-1913)
Just as our Lord came into human history from the outside, so He must come into us from the outside. Have we allowed our personal human lives to become a “Bethlehem” for the Son of God?
– Oswald Chambers –
Let me do nothing today without calmness of soul.
– John Wesley –
God must perform the work, or else it never will be performed. Along the road from sin to heaven, from the first leaving of the swine-trough right up to the joyful entrance into the banquet, and the music and dancing of glorified spirits, every step we must be enabled to take by divine grace. Every good thing that is in a Christian, not merely begins, but progresses and is consummated by the fostering grace of God, through Jesus Christ.
If my finger were on the golden latch of paradise, and my foot were on its jasper threshold, I should not take the last step so as to enter heaven unless the grace which brought me so far should enable me full and fairly to complete my pilgrimage. Salvation is God’s work, not man’s.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Sin does not leap upon us fully armed. It steals in through a look, a swift, silent suggestion or imagination, but love and loyalty to Jesus will make you watchful and swift to rise up and cast out the subtle enemy. Do this and you shall live, and live victoriously.
– Samuel Logan Brengle –
I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages.
– Charles Spurgeon –
We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again.
– G. Campbell Morgan –
God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.
– Hudson Taylor –