Apart from Me you can do nothing!
– Jesus –
Apart from Me you can do nothing!
– Jesus –
If I am to love the Lord my God with ALL my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that?
– Elisabeth Elliot –
in Discipline: The Glad Surrender (page 74)
Your religious life is every day to be a proof that God works impossibilities; your religious life is to be a series of impossibilities made possible and actual by God’s almighty power.
– Andrew Murray –
I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.
– C.T. Studd –
Don’t worry about what others think or whether or not they understand. Just obey God.
– Joshua Harris –
from Not Even a Hint, 67
When He was crucified He did that in the wild weather of His outlying provinces which He had done at home in glory and gladness.
– George MacDonald –
as quoted by C.S. Lewis
A pure heart is one to which all that is not of God is strange and jarring.
– John Tavler –
as was often quoted by Amy Carmichael
Others before me have gone much farther into these holy mysteries than I have done, but if my fire is not large it is yet real, and there may be those who can light their candle at its flame.
– AW Tozer –
from Pursuit of God
Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.
– Hudson Taylor –