If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
– Catherine Booth –
Christian Life
June 27, 2013
The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.
– CS Lewis –
June 26, 2013
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish yourself to be.
– Thomas ‘A Kempis –
June 25, 2013
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of oneself.
– TS Eliot –
June 24, 2013
As health expels disease, light swallows up darkness, and life conquers death, the indwelling Christ through the Spirit is the health, light, and life of the soul.
– Andrew Murray –
from Humility
(chapter: “Humility and Sin”)
June 23, 2013
I use to think that God’s gifts were on shelves – one above another – and the taller we grow, the easier we can reach them. Now I find that God’s gifts are on the shelves – the lower we stoop, the more we get.
– FB Meyer –
June 22, 2013
Should you ask me: “What is the first thing in religion?” I should reply: the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
– Augustine –
June 21, 2013
Absolute, unceasing humility must be the core disposition of every prayer and approach to God as well as every relationship with our fellowmen.
– Andrew Murray –
from Humility
June 20, 2013
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
– Jonathan Edwards –