How can a humble God walk with a proud people? That’s why He wants to make you humble, He wants to walk with you! He wants to dwell in you! He wants you to be the house in which He would dwell and live and move and express Himself in the earth and in the heavens!
– George H.Warnock –
And thine ears shall hear a voice behind thee saying This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand and when ye turn to the left.
Isaiah 30:21
O wondrous love! to bleed and die,
To bear the cross and shame,
That guilty sinners, such as I,
Might plead Thy gracious Name.
“Poor tempest-tossèd soul, be still;
My promised grace receive”;
’Tis Jesus speaks—I must, I will,
I can, I do believe.
– John Newton –
God hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.
– Amy Carmichael –
God buries His workman, but carries on His work!
– Leonard Ravenhill –
We are apt to think that we are fighting the cause of truth, when we are really maintaining our own pride.
– Charles Spurgeon –
A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.
– Samuel Chadwick –
This philosophical postulate that the end of all being is the happiness of man has been sort-of covered over with evangelical terms and biblical doctrine – until God reigns in heaven for the happiness of man, Jesus Christ was incarnate for the happiness of man, all the angels exist and … everything is for the happiness of man – and I submit to you that this is unchristian.
– Paris Reidhead –
Take advice this day, and resolve to possess the realities of Christianity, as well as the name, and the substance, as well as the form. Do not be content until you know something of the peace, hope, joy, and consolation which Christians enjoyed in former times. Ask yourself what is the reason that you are a stranger to the feelings which men and women experienced in the days of the Apostles: ask yourself why you do not “joy in the Lord,” and feel “peace with God,” like the Romans and Philippians, to whom Paul wrote. Religious feelings, no doubt, are often deceptive; but surely the religion which produces no feelings at all is not the religion of the New Testament. The religion which gives a person no inward comfort can never be a religion from God. Reader, take heed to yourself. Never be satisfied until you know something of the rest that is in Christ.
– JC Ryle –