God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
– CS Lewis –
Christian Life
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
July 7, 2012
For this life, being a continual warfare, we must never expect to have rest from our spiritual adversary the devil, or to say, our combat with him is finished, till, with our blessed master, we bow down our heads, and give up the ghost.
– George Whitefield –
July 6, 2012
Good when He gives, supremely good;
Nor less when He denies:
Afflictions, from His sovereign hand,
Are blessings in disguise.
– Brother Lawrence –
from The Practice of the Presence of God
July 5, 2012
If we are not disposed meekly to bear injuries, we are not fitted to live in the world, for in it we must expect to meet with many injuries from men.
– Jonathan Edwards –
from his sermon “Charity Disposes Us Meekly to Bear the Injuries Received from Others”