How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose! … YOU drove them from me, YOU Who are the True, the Sovereign Joy drove them from me and took their place! … O Lord, my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation!
– St. Augustine –
The love life of a Christian is a crucial battleground. There, if nowhere else, it will be determined as to who is Lord: the world, the self and the devil, or the Lord Christ.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
from Passion and Purity
If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
– CT Studd –
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And that which I can do, by the grace of God, I will do.
– DL Moody –
Jesus gave both His hands to the nails; how can I keep back one of mine from this blessed work? Night and day He toiled and prayed for me; how can I give a single hour to selfish indulgence? Up, idle heart; stretch out thy hand to work, or uplift it to pray: heaven and hell are in earnest; LET ME BE SO…
– Charles Spurgeon –
One of the most amazing things Jesus said is that at the judgment seat, preachers are going to say, “I cast out devils,” and Jesus will say, “I never knew you.”
– Leonard Ravenhill –
When we say that there’s only one way of salvation, people say, “You’re very narrow minded.” But the truth is always narrow minded. 2 + 2 = 4. it’s not 3.9, it’s not 4.1.
– Zac Poonen –
I pray that the Lord might crown this year with His goodness and in the coming one give you a hallowed dare-devil spirit in lifting the biting sword of Truth consuming you with a passion…known to God as that saintly madness that led His Son through bloody sweat and hot tears to agony on a rude Cross–and Glory!
– Jim Elliot –
from Shadow of the Almighty
Prayer is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man’s true spiritual condition (there is nothing so much as prayer life that tells the truth about us as Christian people). Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer.
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones –