They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous. Put happiness in the place of righteousness and you will never get it.
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones –
Christian Life
No pretense in godliness – Oswald Chambers
The life of God has no pretense, and when His life is in you, you do not pretend to feel sweet, you are sweet.
– Oswald Chambers –
God’s love allows suffering – Elisabeth Elliot
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering … The love of God did not protect His own Son… He will not necessarily protect us – not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
A Revival of Praying – EM Bounds
We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.
– EM Bounds –
Mercy outweighs affliction – Thomas Watson
Our mercies far outweigh our afflictions. For one affliction—we have a thousand mercies! The sea of God’s mercy swallows up our few drops of affliction!
– Thomas Watson –
The purpose of my life – Ian Thomas
My purpose is to make the invisible Christ visible.
– Ian Thomas –
The ONE Goal – Steve Case
Ask missionaries (regardless of age – 12 or 112) and they’ll tell you they have one goal – God. God first. God last. God in all things. Not to go out and feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, make busy with conversion activity, but God first. With God as the goal, the homeless get a roof, the hungry get fed, the cold get warmed, the lonely get a friend, and the wanderer finds a way.
– Steve Case –
Victorious fruitfulness comes via prayer – Jim Cymbala
The world has yet to see a Christlike, victorious fruitful believer who was not a person of considerable prayer.
– Jim Cymbala –
from Breakthrough Prayer
The Cross is needful – Samuel Rutherford
I find that when the saints are under trial and well humbled, little sins raise great cries in the conscience; but in prosperity, conscience is a pope that gives dispensations and great latitude to our hearts. The cross is therefore as needful as the crown is glorious.
– Samuel Rutherford –