It is always unpleasant to be spoken against, and forsaken, and lied about, and to stand alone. But there is no help for it. The cup which our Master drank must be drunk by His disciples.
– JC Ryle –
from his book Holiness
Christian Life
July 15, 2012
Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of God, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please.
– Brother Lawrence –
from The Practice of the Presence of God
July 14, 2012
We should read the Bible as those who listen to the very speech of God.
– FB Meyer –
from The Way into the Holiest
July 13, 2012
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
– CS Lewis –
July 12, 2012
Stubbornness and self-love give way to beauty in one who has been broken by God.
– Watchman Nee –
from The Release of the Spirit
July 11, 2012
Blessed Bible! thou art all truth.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from his sermon “The Bible”
July 10, 2012
Seest thou the necessity of that inward change, that spiritual birth, that life from the dead, that holiness? And art thou thoroughly convinced, that without it no man shall see the Lord?
– John Wesley –
from his sermon “Awake, Thou That Sleepest”
July 9, 2012
It is not the quantity that is read, but the manner of reading, that yields us profit.
– Francois Fenelon and Jeanne Guyon –
from Spiritual Progress
July 8, 2012
Foundations to be reliable must always be unshakable.
– Hannah Whitall Smith –
from The God of All Comfort