Christian Life

November 10, 2011

WHEN HE GIVETH QUIETNESS
by  Mrs. TD Crewdson in “The Little While and Other Poems”

Jesus! if Thou be near to bless,
We shall not faint nor fail;
For when Thou givest quietness,
No trouble shall prevail.

Thy quietness! — ’tis not the calm
That spreads in Vesper hours.
O’er earth’s green vales, the dewy balm
Of nature’s closing flowers.

‘Tis not the calm the worldling knows.
In dreamy hours of pride;
Though, softly lapped in false repose,
His gilded shallop ride.

Thy quietness! — no fount of earth
Hath ever proved its source;
No mortal skill revealed its birth,
Or traced its hidden course.

Saviour! — Thou hast met the gale
On Thy unsheltered breast,
That we, the weak, the sick, the frail.
Might joy in peace and rest.

November 9, 2011

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice to Him.

– Jim Elliot –

November 8, 2011

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 –

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