Christian Life

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)

August 24, 2011

Here lies the supreme missionary motivation. It is neither obedience to the Great Commission, nor compassion for the lost, nor excitement over the gospel, but zeal (even “jealousy”) for the honour of Christ’s name . . . no incentive is stronger than the longing that Christ should be given the honour that is due His Name.”

– John Stott –

August 11, 2011

Prayer is the acid test of devotion.

– Samuel Chadwick –

August 10, 2011

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities.

– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –

August 9, 2011

One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness. One of the most essential qualities of faith that is to attempt great things for God and expect great things from God, is holy audacity. Where we are dealing with a supernatural Being, and taking from Him things that are humanly impossible, it is easier to take much than little; it is easier to stand in a place of audacious trust than in a place of cautious, timid clinging to the shore. Likewise, seamen in the life of faith, let us launch out into the deep, and find that all things are possible with God, and all things are possible unto him that believeth.

– A. B. Simpson –

August 8, 2011

The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts.

– Richard Allelne –