The proof that your old life is dead, having been “crucified with Christ,” is the amazing ease with which the life of God in you now enables you to obey the voice of Jesus Christ.
– Oswald Chambers –
Centrality of Christ
Elements of a Ministry of Power – Horatius Bonar
Nearness to Christ, intimacy with Him, assimilation of His character—these are the elements of a ministry of power.
– Horatius Bonar –
God’s presence is indispensable – Ian Thomas
Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to His humanity.
– Ian Thomas –
Loyalty to Jesus – Oswald Chambers
Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ. The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him.
– Oswald Chambers –
The Holy Calm of Leaning on Jesus – Charles Spurgeon
Earth has no words that can convey the holy calm of a soul leaning on Jesus.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Jesus is enough – AW Tozer
It is not Christ plus something else. Jesus is enough.
– AW Tozer –
from A Man of God
What God WON’T protect you from – Elisabeth Elliot
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Oh the fullness of Christ – Hudson Taylor
When we look at ourselves, at the littleness of our love, the bareness of our service, and the small progress we make towards perfection, how soul-refreshing it is to turn away to Him; to plunge afresh in “the fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness”; to remember that we are “accepted in the beloved” … “who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.” Oh! the fullness of Christ, the fullness of Christ.
– Hudson Taylor –
Vital Union with Christ – JC Ryle
We cannot have flowers without roots, or fruit without trees. We cannot have the fruit of the Spirit without vital union with Christ, and a new creation within.
– JC Ryle –
from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels,1856