There is true pleasure in true religion. … You startle at it, and start from it as a hard saying, like Nathaniel, when he said, ‘Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?’ (John 1.46). So you are ready to say, can there be any pleasure in religion? Believe it, sirs, there can be, there cannot but be pleasure in it.
– Matthew Henry –
from The Pleasantness of a Religious Life, 1714
Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.
– Oswald Chambers –
Until Jesus Christ is the obsession of your heart, you’ll always be looking to mere men to meet your needs that only Him can fill. Only when you make Jesus Christ your first love, will you be ready for a love story that reflects His glory.
– Leslie Ludy –
Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.
– Corrie ten Boom –
1892-1983
Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like You, Lord Jesus.
– Jim Elliot –
1927-1956
When a worker jealously guards his secret life with God the public life will take care of itself.
– Oswald Chambers –
Faith is the key that unlocks Paradise and lets a flood of joy into the soul.
– Thomas Brooks –
With what misgivings we turn over our lives to God, imagining somehow that we are about to lose everything that matters. Our hesitancy is like that of a tiny shell on the seashore, afraid to give up the teaspoon of water it holds lest there not be enough in the ocean to fill it again. Lose your life, said Jesus, and you will find it. Give up, and I will give you all. Can the shell imagine the depth and plenitude of the ocean? Can you and I fathom the riches, the fullness, of God’s Love?
– Elisabeth Elliot –
from The Path of Loneliness
A great part of my time is spent in getting my heart in tune for prayer. It is the link that connects earth with heaven.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –