Our enemy is more aware than we are of the spiritual possibilities that depend upon obedience. We should never be surprised that he seeks by assault and, if that fails, by undermining our defenses, to compel us to give way
– Amy Carmichael –
Our enemy is more aware than we are of the spiritual possibilities that depend upon obedience. We should never be surprised that he seeks by assault and, if that fails, by undermining our defenses, to compel us to give way
– Amy Carmichael –
Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God
– Jim Elliot –
Thy Soul must overflow, if thou
Another’s soul would reach,
It needs the overflow of heart
to give the lips full speech
– Charles Spurgeon –
(From Lectures To My Students)
Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.
– Corrie ten Boom –
Prayer has been hedged about with too many man-made rules. I am convinced that God has intended prayer to be as simple and natural, and as constant a part of our spiritual life, as the intercourse between a child and his parent in the home. And as a large part of that intercourse between child and parent is simply asking and receiving, just so is it with us and our Heavenly Parent.
– Rosalind Goforth –
The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death
– Martin Luther –
Should all the hosts of death and powers of hell unknown
Put their most dreadful forms of rage or malice on
I shall be safe, for Christ displays superior power and guardian grace
– Isaac Watts –
I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times: and I have thought again, that one reason why we are no better, is because God purges us no more. I know these things are against the grain of the flesh, but they are not against the graces of the Spirit.
– John Bunyan –
The world cries for men who are strong: strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. I pray you will be that kind of man, glad that God made you a man, glad to shoulder the burden of manliness in a time when to do so will often bring contempt
– Elizabeth Elliot –