Keep as far as you can from those temptations that feed and strengthen the sins which you would overcome. Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out, by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.
– Richard Baxter –
Christian Life
April 8, 2012
Not somehow – but triumphantly!
– V. Raymond Edman –
in They Found the Secret, page 11
April 7, 2012
God never asks us to do anything we can do. He asks us to live a life which we can never live and to do a work which we can never do. . . . Self is the only obstruction to that life and to that work. May we each one pray from our hearts: “O Lord, deal with me!”
– Watchman Nee –
from “Sit, Walk, Stand” page 69
April 6, 2012
Better to abolish pulpits than fill them with men who have no experimental knowledge of what they teach!
– CH Spurgeon –
April 5, 2012
You will ask me, are you satisfied? Have you got all you want? God forbid. With the deepest feeling of my soul I can say that I am satisfied with Jesus now; but there is also the consciousness of how much fuller the revelation can be of the exceeding abundance of His grace. Let us never hesitate to say, ‘This is only the beginning.’
– Andrew Murray –
They Found the Secret, page 116
April 4, 2012
A man set on fire is an apostle of his age. And the only one who can kindle the spark of light and fire on the hearth where it has died down is He who has revealed Himself as the God of fire, our Lord Jesus Christ. ‘Our God is a consuming fire’. . . . Tell me, is your ministry a burning and shining light, or a smoking wick, slowly dying out to ashes? . . . It is a strange custom that we should supply a minister with a glass of water; if only we could supply him with a bonfire in the pulpit, a spiritual bonfire. We need the dynamic of a flaming ministry that will set the Church on fire.
– Samuel M. Zwemer –
(Keswick 1937)
April 3, 2012
Walk in the Light, nothing hidden, nothing concealed, everything open and transparent for all to see.
– Brother Andrew –
God Smuggler, page 103
April 2, 2012
How infinitely blessed it is to be entirely Christ’s. To think that you and I are never to have another care or another fear, but that Jesus has undertaken simply everything for us! And isn’t it grand to have the privilege of being His instruments? It does seem such loving condescension that He should use us.
– Francis Havergal –
April 1, 2012
Sometimes people talk about how they are “struggling with” certain things, or “working through” them, when what they really mean is that they are delaying obedience. “I have a problem with this,” they say, or, “I don’t feel comfortable with that yet,” meaning, “Who me? Disobedient?” . . . Obedience will very likely earn you nasty labels nowadays. There’s nothing new about that. Obedience has never been the route to popularity. The question is simply, who is your master?
– Elisabeth Elliot –