Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.
– Brother Lawrence –
Abiding
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
June 22, 2012
The moment the soul yields itself to obey [responds], the Lord Himself gives the strength and joy to do it.
– Andrew Murray –