If God could set a table for His people in the wilderness, and feed three millions of Israelites for forty years, can he not give us our daily bread? I do not mean only the bread that perisheth, but also the Bread that cometh from above. If He feeds the birds of the air, surely he will feed his children made in His own image! If He numbers the very hairs of our head, he will take care to supply all our temporal wants.
– DL Moody –
Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.
– Brother Lawrence –
from The Practice of the Presence of God
Christ loves for men to strenuously plead with Him. You cannot be too persistent in your asking.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from God Loves You
Grant, O Lord my God, that I may never fall away in success or in failure; that I may not be prideful in prosperity nor dejected in adversity. Let me rejoice only in what unites us and sorrow only in what separates us. May I strive to please no one or fear to displease anyone except Yourself. May I seek always the things that are eternal and never those that are only temporal. May I shun any joy that is without You and never seek any that is beside You. O Lord, may I delight in any work I do for You and tire of any rest that is apart from You. My God, let me direct my heart towards You, and in my failings, always repent with a purpose of amendment.
– Thomas Aquinas –
God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume …
– Vance Havner –
The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
In the New Testament Church it says they were all amazed—and now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
–Watchman Nee –
No flesh shall glory in His presence, and the religious flesh is no more acceptable than the irreligious.
–T. Austin-Sparks –