Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called “The rejoicing of hope.”
Christian Life
March 3, 2015
If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
March 2, 2015
Laughter and tears are the warp and woof of life. If you leave them out of preaching, you are leaving out life itself.
March 1, 2015
The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
– Oswald Chambers –
February 28, 2015
Depend upon it, if you are bent on prayer, the devil will not leave you alone. He will molest you, tantalize you, block you … What he minds, and opposes steadily, is the prayer that prays on until it is prayed through, assured of the answer.
– Mary Warburton Booth –
February 27, 2015
Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness. So do not seek to hide from it. Do not accept an easy way. Do not allow yourself to be patted to sleep in a comfortable church, void of power and barren of fruit. Do not paint the cross nor deck it with flowers. Take it for what it is, as it is, and you will find it the rugged way to death and life. Let it slay you utterly.
– AW Tozer –
February 26, 2015
The Christian is the man who no longer seeks his salvation, his deliverance, his justification in himself, but in Jesus Christ alone. He knows that God’s Word in Jesus Christ pronounces him guilty, even when he does not feel his guilt, and God’s Word in Jesus Christ pronounces him not guilty and righteous, even when he does not feel that he is righteous at all. The Christian no longer lives of himself, by his own claims and his own justification, but by God’s claims and God’s justification.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
from Life Together, 1939
February 25, 2015
God is not looking for brilliant men, is not depending upon eloquent men, is not shut up to the use of talented men in sending His Gospel out in the world. God is looking for the broken men who
have judged themselves in the light of the Cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God.
– Harry A. Ironside –
February 24, 2015
That death was not on His own account. His humanity had no need to die. He might have lived on and have seen no death, if He had so willed. He had committed no offense, no sin, and, therefore, no punishment could fall upon Him. Every pang upon the cross was substitutionary; for you, the sons of men, the Prince of Glory bled, “the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God” (1 Peter 3:18).
– Charles Spurgeon –
from God Loves You