The holy man is not one who cannot sin. A holy man is one who will not sin.
– AW Tozer –
Christian Life
September 1, 2011
The only things that we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.
– CS Lewis –
August 31, 2011
O brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper—and sleep too—than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber.
– Andrew Bonar –
August 30, 2011
There must be a divorce! Within the egg of sin there sleeps the seed of damnation! Man, there must be a divorce between you and your sins. Not a mere separation for a season, but a clear divorce. Cut off the right arm; pluck out the right eye, and cast them from you, or else you cannot enter into eternal life.
– Charles Spurgeon –
August 29, 2011
There is no power like that of prevailing prayer, of Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken with remorse and grief, Jesus in sweat of blood. Add to this list from the records of the church your personal observation and experience, and always there is the cost of passion unto blood. Such prayer prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.
– Samuel Chadwick –
August 28, 2011
These days of ours have sore need of a generation of praying men, a band of men and women through whom God can bring his great and his greatest movements more fully into the world. The Lord our God is not straitened within himself, but he is straitened in us, by reason of our little faith and weak praying. A breed of Christian is greatly needed who will seek tirelessly after God—who will give him no rest, day and night, until he hearkens to their cry. The times demand praying men who are all athirst for God’s glory, who are broad and unselfish in their desires, quenchless for God, who seek him late and early, and who will give themselves no rest until the whole earth be filled with his glory.
– E.M. Bounds –
August 27, 2011
The real test of being in the Presence of God is that you forget about yourself altogether.
– CS Lewis –
August 26, 2011
There is no such thing as a Christianity without a cross. There is no such things as a Christianity without a cost. It costs everything.
– Nick Thompson –
August 25, 2011
God has made me as bread for His chosen ones, and if it is necessary for me to be ground in the teeth of lions in order to feed His children, then blessed be the name of the Lord.
– St. Ignatius, Early Christian Martyr –
(quoted in Cowman, Streams in the Desert, 1996, pg 238)