I want my spirit to be a listening spirit waiting to hear what God says.
– Andrew Murray –
Christian Life
Live and Talk Religion – Eleazar Mather
You must live religion as well as talk religion.
– Eleazar Mather –
1637-1699 AD
Know, Love, and Imitate God – John Milton
The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
– John Milton –
1608 – 1674 AD
A Tender Love for Your People – Richard Baxter
Most people judge the counsel they receive by the way they receive the affection of their counselor. See that you feel a tender love for your people, and then let them feel it by your speeches and see it in your dealings with them … Let them see that all you do is for their own sakes and not for your own end.
– Richard Baxter –
1615-1691
If I Could Hear Christ Praying For Me – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
If I can hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet the distance makes no difference; He is praying for me.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
The History of God’s Specific Movements – T. Austin-Sparks
The history of God’s specific movements with the Church is not the history of His adding something, but of His bringing back to the primal fullness with which He filled His Son.
– T. Austin-Sparks –
Praying Against Idols – Andrew Bonar
Tried this morning especially to pray against idols in the shape of my books and studies. These encroach upon my direct communion with God, and need to be watched.
– Andrew Bonar –
from Andrew Bonar: Diary & Life (Saturday, September 7, 1850)
A Spring of Living Water – Watchman Nee
The life of the Lord in us is a spring of living water—ever flowing without variation. Nothing is wrong with the inlet: It is the outlet that is obstructed. The water of life does not spring forth because the flow has no way through. Were the outlet cleared, the water of life would flow unceasingly. What a child of God needs is not more life but more flow of life.
– Watchman Nee –
True Repentance – George Whitefield
True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His law, and in His people.
– George Whitefield –