Peace of conscience, liberty of heart, the sweetness of abandoning ourselves in the hands of God, the joy of always seeing the light grow in our hearts, finally, freedom from the fears and insatiable desires of the times, multiply a hundredfold the happiness which the true children of God possess in the midst of their crosses, if they are faithful.
– Francois Fenelon –
in Christian Perfection
Anyone can do the possible; add a bit of courage and zeal and some may do the phenomenal; only Christians are obliged to do the impossible.
– AW Tozer –
from Warfare of the Spirit, page 12
Real gold fears no fire!
– Randy Alcorn –
from his book Safely Home
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