Jesus had only three years to accomplish His life-work. If we remember how quickly three years in an ordinary life pass away, and how little at their close there usually is to show for them, we shall see what must have been the size and quality of life, which in so marvelously short a time made such a deep and ineffaceable impression on the world and left to mankind such a heritage of truth and influence.
– James Stalker –
from The Life of Jesus Christ, 1880
There was a day when I died, utterly died—died to George Mueller, his opinions, preferences, tastes, and will!—died to the world, its approval or censure —died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friend,— and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.
– George Muller –
The most important and profitable time of my whole day is the time I spend with God.
– Andrew Murray –
Have your heart right with Christ, and He will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples and earth into heaven.
– Charles Spurgeon –
I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
– Jesus –
John 11:25-26
The Lord cannot forget you. If you stood before God in your own righteousness, then I see how you might be separated from His love and care. But you stand before Him in Christ, and Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. You will be held in everlasting remembrance. The world may forget you, your friends may forget you; this is a forgetting world. You may not have a tombstone over your grave, but God will not forget you.
– Robert Murray McCheyne –
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
True lovers of men’s souls learn the art of dealing with them, and the Holy Spirit makes them expert soul-surgeons for Jesus. It is not because a man has more abilities, nor altogether because he has more grace, but the Lord makes him to love the souls of men intensely, and this imparts a secret skill, since, for the most part, the way to get sinners to Christ is to love them to Christ.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from his book The Soul Winner
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
– Jim Elliot –
from his Journal, October 28, 1949