Christian Life

July 26, 2012

Pray God to send a few men with what the Americans call “grit” in them; men, who: when they know a thing to be right, will not turn away or aside, or stop; men who will persevere all the more because there are difficulties to meet or foes to encounter; who stand all the more true to their Master because they are opposed; who, the more they are thrust into the fire, the hotter they become; who, just like the bow, the further the string is drawn the more powerfully it sends forth its arrows, and so the more they are trodden upon, the more mighty will they become in the cause of truth against error.

– Charles Spurgeon –

July 25, 2012

Humility is not so much a grace or virus along with; it is the root of all, because it alone assumes the right attitude before God and allows Him as God to do all.

– Andrew Murray –
from Humility

July 24, 2012

Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.

– Brother Lawrence –

July 23, 2012

Tomorrow’s character is made out of today’s thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin doesn’t.

– Randy Alcorn –
from The Purity Principle 

July 22, 2012

But if the path we tread be rough and lowly; it is that in which our great Exemplar has gone before. Going down into the valley of humiliation we walk in His footsteps.

– John Dawson –
from The Saviour in the Workshop 

July 21, 2012

Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists.

– AW Tozer –
from That Incredible Christian 

July 20, 2012

Lord, thou has called me forth, I turn and call on thee.

– George MacDonald –
from Diary of an Old Soul 

July 19, 2012

Those who read fast, reap no more advantage than a bee would by only skimming over the surface of the flower, instead of waiting to penetrate into it, and extract its sweets. Much reading is rather for scholastic subjects, than divine truths.

– Jeanne Guyon –
from Spiritual Progress 

July 18, 2012

It is a grand thing to have a man with whom God is, to entrust one’s business to.

– Andrew Murray –