Abiding

July 25, 2012

Humility is not so much a grace or virus along with; it is the root of all, because it alone assumes the right attitude before God and allows Him as God to do all.

– Andrew Murray –
from Humility

July 24, 2012

Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.

– Brother Lawrence –

July 21, 2012

Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists.

– AW Tozer –
from That Incredible Christian 

July 20, 2012

Lord, thou has called me forth, I turn and call on thee.

– George MacDonald –
from Diary of an Old Soul 

July 18, 2012

It is a grand thing to have a man with whom God is, to entrust one’s business to.

– Andrew Murray –

July 17, 2012

Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please God, that perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.

– Brother Lawrence –

June 29, 2012

The perfect victory is to triumph over ourselves. For he that keepeth himself subject in such sort that his sensual affections be obedient to reason, and his reason in all things obedient to Me; that person is truly conqueror of himself . . .

– Thomas a Kempis –
from The Imitation of Christ 

June 25, 2012

Self-denial surely means something far greater than some slight and insignificant lessening of our self-indulgences!

– Hudson Taylor –

June 24, 2012

An honest, consistent, godly character, is a sermon all the week. The godly Christian–pure of heart and unspotted by the world–is the best preacher of the gospel. The revival which is most urgently needed, is a revival of practical godliness. Sunday preaching is not enough; we need more “sermons all through the week.”

– Theodore Cuyler –
from “Wayside Springs from the Fountain of Life,” 1883