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 –
Christianity seems at first to be about morality, rules, guilt, and virtue, yet it leads you out of that, into something beyond.
– CS Lewis –
The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
– EM Bounds –
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
Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
– Corrie ten Boom –
Daily living by faith on Christ is what makes the difference between the sickly and the healthy Christian, between the defeated and the victorious saint.
– AW Pink –
And shall I fear
That there is anything that men hold dear
Thou would’st deprive me of
And nothing give in place?
That is not so —
For I can see Thy face
And hear Thee now:
“My child, I died for thee.
And if the gift of love and life
You took from Me,
Shall I one precious thing withhold —
One beautiful and bright
One pure and precious thing withhold?
My child, it cannot be.”
– Betty Stam –
…I thank Thee that Thou art risen from the dead, that at this very moment Thou dost indwell me in the person and power of Thy divine Spirit; that Thou hast never expected of me anything but failure, yet Thou hast given to me Thy strength for my weakness, Thy victory for my defeat, Thyself for all my bankruptcy! I step out now, by faith, into a future that is limited only by what Thou art! To me to live is Christ!
– Ian Thomas –
There is nothing fuller than full, and nothing longer than forever, so you cannot offer me anything better than life with Jesus.
– John Piper –