A spirit of calm contentment always accompanies true godliness.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Christian Life
Dying of Starvation – AW Tozer
A man can die of starvation knowing all about bread, and a man can remain spiritually dead while knowing all the historic facts of Christianity.
– AW Tozer –
from A Man of God
Live by faith – Chip Ingram
God always has and always will look for men and women who say to Him, “I trust you so much, I’m all in. I want your way not mine. I am willing to live by faith!”
– Chip Ingram –
People of Integrity – Billy Graham
Our world today is looking for men and women with integrity, for communicators who back up their ministry with their lives. Our preaching emerges out of what we are. We are called to be holy people separated from the moral evils of the world.
– Billy Graham –
If you want to be like Jesus – Leonard Ravenhill
If you want to be like Jesus, remember, He had a wilderness, a Gethsemane, and a Judas.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Joy of the Lord – Matthew Henry
The joy of the LORD will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies and put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.
– Matthew Henry –
Prayer and sin can’t coexist – JC Ryle
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
– JC Ryle –
Will you trust God in this? – Elisabeth Elliot
In every experience of life, the Lord is standing at the door and knocking and saying “Will you trust Me in this?”
– Elisabeth Elliot –
We are far too easily pleased – CS Lewis
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and seek and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot image what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
– CS Lewis –