Christian Life

Serious Meditating Upon Heavenly Truths – Thomas Brooks

Remember, it is not hasty reading but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not he who reads most but he who meditates most who will prove choicest, sweetest, wisest, and strongest Christian.

– Thomas Brooks –

A Passionate Joy in Your Spirit – Keith Green

It seems to me that there are but few who really live with a passion for God—especially a passion just to be with Him. Today there is such a noise coming up before the throne of the Most High—the clamor of so-called praise, singing, and joyful shouting. But I wonder if the same people who love to sing and shout, loudly exclaiming the praises of God, really have such an intense glory in their secret life with the Lord. When the meeting’s over and there’s no one there to listen except the only One who matters, do you still have that same passionate joy in your spirit, just to be alone with the Living God?

– Keith Green –

Be All There – Jim Elliot

Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt [in] every situation you believe to be the will of God.

– Jim Elliot –
from his journals

Prayer is the Highest Activity – D. Martin Lloyd-Jones

Prayer is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man’s true spiritual condition (there is nothing so much as prayer life that tells the truth about us as Christian people.) Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer.

– D. Martin Lloyd-Jones –