God’s plan with most of us appears to be a design to make us flexible, twisting us this way and that, now giving, now taking; but always at work for and in us.
– Elizabeth Prentiss –
from More Love to Thee
Christian Life
April 11, 2013
What will your university education amount to, and all your wealth and honors if you go down through lust and passion and covetousness, and lose your soul at last?
– DL Moody –
April 10, 2013
The god of the world is riches, pleasure, and pride, wherewith it abuses all the creatures and gifts of God.
– Martin Luther –
April 9, 2013
It is true that all God requires of us we lack; but it is also true that all we need He supplies.
– Evan Hopkins –
April 8, 2013
Bread for today is bread enough.
– EM Bounds –
from The Necessity of Prayer
April 7, 2013
All of my need He freely supplieth,
Day after day His goodness I prove;
Mercies unfailing, new every morning,
Tell me of God’s unchanging love.
– Thomas Chisholm –
from the hymn He Supplieth All of My Need
April 6, 2013
Unclaimed promises are like uncashed checks; they will keep us from bankruptcy, but not from want.
– Frances Ridley Havergal –
from Kept for the Master’s Use (1879)
April 5, 2013
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.
– CS Lewis –
from The Problem of Pain
April 4, 2013
Perfect love of God with our heart, soul, mind, and strength will not happen until we are no longer compelled to think about ourselves.
– Bernard of Clairvaux –
from On the Love of God