Peace is the umpire for knowing the will of God.
– Ed Cole –
Christian Life
August 25, 2014
Be ready to cut off everything that would hinder, and cast it from you. Be ready and willing to suffer the loss of possessions, of friends, of health – of all things on earth – so you may enter into the kingdom of heaven.
– John Wesley –
August 24, 2014
When a prophet is accepted and deified, his message is lost. The prophet is only useful so long as he is stoned as a public nuisance calling us to repentance, disturbing our comfortable routines, breaking our respectable idols, shattering our sacred conventions.
– AG Gardiner –
August 23, 2014
The function of the Prophet has almost invariably been that of recovery … for obvious reasons, the people were not disposed to go the costly way of God’s full purpose, the Prophet was usually an unpopular person.
– T. Austin Sparks –
August 22, 2014
…generally after each meal, we saw our father retire, and “shut to the door;” and we children got to understand by a sort of spiritual instinct (for the thing was too sacred to be talked about) that prayers were being poured out there for us, as of old by the high priest within the veil.
– John G. Paton –
Speaking of his father, James Paton
August 21, 2014
There are some rare Christians who seem born for thoughtfulness. … This is the highest and holiest ministry of love. It is not softness nor weakness; it is strength – but strength enriched by divine gentleness.
– JR Miller –
August 20, 2014
A right-spirited saint is made of mettle that will not wear out.
– Thomas Watson –
August 19, 2014
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes, because we need them. He proportions the frequency and weight of them—to what our case requires. Let us trust in His skill—and thank Him for His prescription!
– John Newton –
August 18, 2014
The clearer the line of demarcation between us and the world, the better.
The more thorough and entire our devotion to the Lord’s cause and service, the better.
– James Smith –