Let me seek Thee in longing, let me long for Thee in seeking; let me find Thee in love, and love Thee in finding.
– Anselm –
Character
Unity Delights the Heart Of God – RA Torrey
True Christian unity is one of the greatest, one of the grandest, one of the most glorious, one of the divinest, one of the most beneficent things on earth. It is the life of God the Father and the Son reproduced in the Church. It greatly delights the heart of God.
– RA Torrey –
The Desire of Every Great Soul Winner – Samuel Brengle
It is said that Sheridan went to battle with all the fury of a madman, and recklessly exposed himself to the shot and shell of the enemy. He told General Horace Porter that he never went into a battle from which he cared to come back alive unless he came as a victor. This desperation made him an irresistible inspiration to his own troops, and enabled him to hurl them like thunderbolts against his foes. If he became so desperate in killing men, how much more desperate, if possible, should we become in our effort and desire to save them!
It was written of Jesus, “The zeal of Thine house hath eaten me up,” and so it can be of every great soul-winner.
– Samuel Brengle –
Never Forget the Eye of God – JC Ryle
Resolve never to forget the eye of God. The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always on you. “The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good” (Proverbs 15:3), and they are eyes that read hearts as well as actions.
– JC Ryle –
from Thoughts for Young Men, 1886
True Maturity – Leonard Ravenhill
Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Watch the People God Brings – Oswald Chambers
Watch the kind of people that God brings around you, and you will be humiliated to find that this is His way of reviewing to you the kind of person you have been to Him.
– Oswald Chambers –
Jesus is our Strength – Hudson Taylor
Jesus is our strength, and what we cannot do or bear, He can both do and bear in us.
– Hudson Taylor –
“Im Doing it for Jesus” – A W Tozer
And we would sanctify almost anything by saying “Im doing it for Jesus” I warn you Brother that you cant do anything for Jesus that Jesus wouldn’t do. … The only thing I can do for God is [something] holy like God. and the only thing i can do for Jesus is that which Jesus has allowed and permitted and commanded me to do!
– A W Tozer –
it must become natural – Andrew Murray
As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, [it should be] for us to be humble.
– Andrew Murray –