Christian Life

April 18, 2012

No one whose senses have been exercised to know good and evil but must grieve over the sight of zealous souls seeking to be filled with the Holy Spirit while they are yet living in a state of moral carelessness or borderline sin. Such a things is a moral contradiction. Whoever would be filled and indwell by the Spirit should first judge his life for any hidden iniquities; he should courageously expel from his heart everything which is out of accord with the character of God as revealed by the Holy Scriptures.

– AW Tozer –

April 17, 2012

That’s the excitement in obedience – finding out later what God had in mind.

– Brother Andrew –
from God’s Smuggler, page 101

April 16, 2012

God will not do a bit more through you than you have faith for.

– Rees Howells –

April 15, 2012

There is the source of all delights that can be desired; not only can nought better be thought out by men and angels, but nought better can exist in any mode of being! For it is the absolute maximum of every rational desire, than which a greater cannot be.

– Nicholas of Cusa –
1401-1464 AD
quoted from Tozer’s Pursuit of God 

April 14, 2012

In the midst of this great chill there are some, I rejoice to acknowledge, who will not be content with shallow logic. They will admit the force of the argument, and then turn away with tears to hunt some lonely place and pray, “O God, show me Thy glory.” They want to taste, to touch with their hearts, to see with their inner eyes the wonder that is God.

– AW Tozer –
from The Pursuit of God 

April 13, 2012

It is simply impossible to discover heavenly things through human means.

– Eric Ludy –
from Teaching True Love to a Sex at 13 Generation, page 40

April 12, 2012

The words of the Lord hurt and offend until there is nothing left to be hurt or offended. Jesus has no tenderness whatsoever toward anything that is ultimately going to ruin a person in his service to God. If the Spirit of God brings to your mind a word of the Lord that hurts you, you may be sure that there is something He wants to hurt to death.

– Oswald Chambers –

April 11, 2012

God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.

– Arthur T. Pierson –

April 10, 2012

The world cries for men who are strong: strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. I pray you will be that kind of man, glad that God made you a man, glad to shoulder the burden of manliness in a time when to do so will often bring contempt.

– Elisabeth Elliot –