Even a doubtful principle of life, harbored in the heart, is perilous to the peacefulness of devotion. May not many of us find the cause of our joylessness in prayer, in the fact that we are living upon some unsettled principles of conduct?
– Austen Phelps –
from The Still Hour: Communion with God in Prayer, 1859
Ye who love God, of every place and every denomination, wrestle for your ministers; pray for them; for why should not God even now pour out his Spirit? What is the reason why we are to be denied Pentecostal seasons? Why not this hour, as one mighty band, fall down before him and entreat him, for his Sons’ sake, to revive his drooping church? Then would all men discern that we are verily the disciples of Christ.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Continue, then, always with God; it is the only support and comfort for your affliction.
– Brother Lawrence –
from The Practice of the Presence of God
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitivity to sin.
– Oswald Chambers –
Use duty, but trust to Christ and free grace for acceptance. Be like Noah’s dove: she made use of her wings to fly, but trusted to the ark for safety.
– Thomas Watson –
from The Lords Supper, 1665
Prayer is not meant to develop us, but to develop the life of God in us after the new birth.
– Oswald Chambers –
Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.
– Charles Spurgeon –
A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer, and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.
– Vavasor Powell –
1617-1670 AD
Religion is hanging around the cross; Christianity is getting on the cross.
– Steve Hill –