Anyone can do the possible; add a bit of courage and zeal and some may do the phenomenal; only Christians are obliged to do the impossible.
– AW Tozer –
from Warfare of the Spirit, page 12
Anyone can do the possible; add a bit of courage and zeal and some may do the phenomenal; only Christians are obliged to do the impossible.
– AW Tozer –
from Warfare of the Spirit, page 12
Real gold fears no fire!
– Randy Alcorn –
from his book Safely Home
Apart from Me you can do nothing!
– Jesus –
If I am to love the Lord my God with ALL my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that?
– Elisabeth Elliot –
in Discipline: The Glad Surrender (page 74)
Your religious life is every day to be a proof that God works impossibilities; your religious life is to be a series of impossibilities made possible and actual by God’s almighty power.
– Andrew Murray –
I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.
– C.T. Studd –
A pure heart is one to which all that is not of God is strange and jarring.
– John Tavler –
as was often quoted by Amy Carmichael
Only Christ can live the Christian life – He never said we could; He always said He would!
– Ian Thomas –
Am I willing to trade my addiction to the world’s entertainment for more time with my Bible?
“Blessed is the man . . . whose delight is the law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night.” (Psalm 1.1-2)
– Leslie Ludy –
in Set Apart Femininity, page 74