Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen
– Oswald Chambers –
Christian Life
I Will Yet Go Forward! – John Bunyan
To go back is nothing but death: to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward
– John Bunyan –
from the book Pilgrim’s Progress
Not To Be Weary of Doing Little Things – Brother Lawrence
We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.
– Brother Lawrence –
Laugh The Laugh Of Faith Not Fear – Amy Carmichael
We are never to overcome, but to rise unvanquished after every knockout blow and laugh the laugh of faith not fear
– Amy Carmichael –
Repentance – Paris Reidhead
A person repents when he comes to the place where he discovers that the will of God is the government of his life and the glory of God is the reason for his life. He only has repented who has changed his mind about his reason for being.
– Paris Reidhead –
Cost of Life Giving Preaching – EM Bounds
Life giving preaching costs the preacher much – death to self, crucifixion to the world, the travail of his own soul. Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified life
– EM Bounds –
Communion With Christ – Samuel Rutherford
I urge upon you communion with Christ a growing communion. There are curtains to be drawn aside in Christ that we never saw, and new foldings of love in him. I despair that I shall every win to the far end of that love, there are so many plies in it. Therefore dig deep, and sweat and labor and take pains for him, and set by as much time in the day for him as you can. We will be won in the labor
– Samuel Rutherford –
Prayer shows how popular God is – Leonard Ravenhill
The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is.
The evening services show how popular your pastor is.
Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Faith is to take God at His Word – DL Moody
Some say that faith is the gift of God. So is the air, but you have to breathe it; so is bread, but you have to eat it. Some are wanting some miraculous kind of feeling. That is not faith. “Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God” (Rom. 10:17). That is whence faith comes. It is not for me to sit down and wait for faith to come stealing over me with a strong sensation, but is for me to take God at His Word.
– DL Moody –