Christian Life

December 21, 2013

If a poor man is a great lover of music, he gives his last dollar to listen to a concert. He is then without money, but he does not feel frustrated. He has heard beautiful things. I don’t feel frustrated to have lost many years in prison. I have seen beautiful things. I myself have been among the weak and insignificant ones in prison, but have had the privilege to be in the same jail with great saints, heroes of faith who equaled the Christians of the first centuries. They went gladly to die for Christ. The spiritual beauty of such saints and heroes of faith can never be described. The things that I say here are not exceptional. The supernatural things have become natural to Christians in the Underground Church who have returned to their first love.

– Richard Wurmbrand –

December 20, 2013

I hope, by God’s grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ.

– John Hus –

 

December 19, 2013

A readiness to believe every promise implicitly, to obey every command unhesitatingly, to stand perfect and complete in all the will of God, is the only true spirit of Bible study.

– Andrew Murray –

December 18, 2013

When the Holy Spirit takes the Bible and applies it to your heart, the bookishness of it, the academic-ness of it, the skill in reading of it, the black and white marks on the page – they all fade away and the connection between persons happens – fellowship with God, communion with God. Oh the bliss of living and enduring as seeing ‘Him who is invisible!’ The Christian life is lived in steady state gazing at what you cannot see, and seeing it. Through the Word by the Spirit.

– John Piper –

December 17, 2013

Do get on with your studies.  Remember you are now forming the character of your future ministry, if God spare you.  If you acquire slovenly or sleepy habits of study now, you will never get the better of it.  Do everything in earnest.  Above all, keep much in the presence of God.  Never see the face of man till you have seen His face who is our life, our all

– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –

December 16, 2013

Christianity seems at first to be about morality, rules, guilt, and virtue, yet it leads you out of that, into something beyond.

– CS Lewis –

December 15, 2013

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

– EM Bounds –

December 14, 2013

   Do all the good you can, 
by all the means you can,
in all the ways you can,
in all the places you can,
at all the times you can,
to all the people you can,
as long as ever you can!

– John Wesley –
rule for living

December 13, 2013

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

– Corrie ten Boom –