We always admire those who stand up when everyone else ducks or bows down. You may be the only one in your generation, but never bend your knee [to difficulties or the culture]. . . . Your knee is to bend solely to Jesus Christ.
– Eric Ludy –
Christian Life
November 7, 2011
There is nothing more boring than being religious. There is nothing more exciting than being a Christian. Sad thing is that countless religious people don’t know the difference between religious and being a Christian.
– Ian Thomas –
November 6, 2011
In our abandonment we give ourselves over to God just as God gave Himself for us, without any calculation. The consequences of abandonment never enter into our outlook because our life is taken up with Him.
– Oswald Chambers –
from My Utmost for His Highest
November 5, 2011
The reason some of us are such poor specimens of Christianity is because we have no Almighty Christ. We have Christian attributes and experiences, but there is no abandonment to Jesus Christ.
– Oswald Chambers –
from My Utmost for His Highest
November 4, 2011
The preoccupations of seventeen-year-old girls – their looks, their clothes, their social life – don’t change much from generation to generation. But, in every generation there seem to be a few who make other choices. Amy Carmichael was one of the few.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
from A Chance to Die (biography about Amy Carmichael), 31
November 3, 2011
Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.
– Oswald Chambers –
from My Utmost for His Highest
November 2, 2011
The holy, all-loving, all-powerful, all-mighty, perfectly peaceful and joyful Life of God is waiting to be ours. It is a priceless gift that comes with only one condition: His Life can only be had in exchange for our own.
– Eric Ludy –
from God’s Gift to Women, 106
November 1, 2011
We never test the resources of God until we attempt the IMPOSSIBLE.
– F. B. Meyer –
October 31, 2011
Revival is not some emotion or worked-up excitement; it is rather an invasion from heaven which brings a conscious awareness of God.
– JE Orr –
Heart Cry for Revival, p. 48