We are saved and sanctified for God, not to be specimens in His showrooms, but for God to do with us even as he did with Jesus—make us broken bread and poured-out wine as he chooses. That is the test—not spiritual fireworks or hysterics, not fanaticism, but a blazingly holy life that confronts the horror of the world with a fierce purity—chaste physically, morally and spiritually—and this can only come about in the way it came about in the life of Our Lord.
– Oswald Chambers –
“Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established” (Proverbs 16:3). By works he means not only every enterprise and business we undertake, but every puzzling, intricate and doubtful event we fear. These being once committed by an act of faith, and our wills resigned to His, besides the comfort we shall have in the issue, we shall have the present advantage of a well-composed and peaceful spirit.
– John Flavel –
from The Mystery of Providence, 1678
O Lord, breathe on me till I am one with Thee in the temper of my mind and heart and disposition, unto Thee do I turn. How completely again I realize my lost-ness without Thee.
– Oswald Chambers –
from If You Will Ask
The more faith the more victory! The more faith the more inward peace!
– JC Ryle –
from Holiness
I resolve to carry the mark of the children of God, the great distinction of the Christian—a life of prayer.
– Andrew Murray –
Christ is put forward as the example of how we should love, and that is the most effective argument. How great was Christ’s love? What kind of love was his? Christ voluntarily gave himself up to death because of his great love for us—the greatest love anyone could have, in fact. The apostle asks us to imitate him.
– Martin Bucer –
1491-1551
May you have no rest in your souls till you rest in Jesus Christ!
– George Whitefield –
from Select Sermons of George Whitefield
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.
– Jim Elliot –
Perfect love is a kind of self-dereliction, a wandering out of ourselves; it is a kind of voluntary death, wherein the lover dies to himself, and all his own interests, nor thinking of them, nor caring for them any more, and minding nothing but how he may please and gratify the party whom he loves.
– Henry Scougal –