If your dreams turn to dust. Vacuum.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Christian Life
Faith has Influence – Thomas Brooks
Faith has an influence upon all other graces: it is like a silver thread, that runs through a chain of pearls; it puts strength and vivacity into all other graces.
– Thomas Brooks –
Holiness would transform the world – CS Lewis
How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing … it is irresistible. If even 10% of the world’s population had it, would not the whole world be converted and happy before a year’s end?
– CS Lewis –
from Letters to an American Lady, 1967
Going after second best – Eric Liddell
Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.
– Eric Liddell –
Proven in Character – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A Christian life proves itself not in words, but character. No one is a Christian without character.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
Doing the Lord’s Work – Corrie Ten Boom
Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
– Corrie Ten Boom –
The cross is never easy – AW Tozer
Let us remember that the way of the cross is never easy.
– AW Tozer –
Revival of Spiritual Life – Andrew Murray
There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of radical change …
– Andrew Murray –
The Voice of Forgiveness is Louder – DL Moody
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times (Matthew 18:21-22).
Peter did not seem to think that he was in danger of falling into sin; his question was, How often should I forgive my brother? But very soon we hear that Peter has fallen. I can imagine that when he did fall, the sweet thought came to him of what the Master had said. The voice of sin may be loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.
– DL Moody –
from Day by Day with D.L. Moody