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
Christian Life
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 –
July 17, 2012
Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please God, that perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.
– Brother Lawrence –
July 16, 2012
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
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