We need this simple, confident faith that God will give us what we ask for. Where it really exists, there will be no mistake about whether or not we should pray.
– Andrew Murray –
from The Ministry of Intercession
Christian Life
Regardless of how you feel – Charles Spurgeon
If we never do any work for Christ except when we feel up to the mark, we shall not do much. If we feel that we will not pray because we cannot pray, we shall never pray.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from The Soul Winner
When you’re on fire, everyone knows it – Leonard Ravenhill
You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there’s a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian – Billy Sunday
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
– Billy Sunday –
Seek God’s Face – Thomas Brooks
God sees us in secret, therefore, let us seek His face in secret.
– Thomas Brooks –
The discontented person – Thomas Watson
The discontented person thinks everything he doth for God too much, and everything God doth for him too little.
– Thomas Watson –
The pleasures of religion – Matthew Henry
The pleasures of religion will abide; they wither not in winter, nor tarnish with time, nor doth age wrinkle their beauty; frosts nip them not, nor do storms blast them; they continue through the greatest opposition of events, and despise that time and change, which happens to all things under the sun’ (Ecl 9:1). Believers, when they are sorrowful, they are but as sorrowful, for they are “always rejoicing” (2 Cor 6:10) and “Thanks be to God who always causes us to triumph” (2 Cor 2:14).
– Matthew Henry –
from The Pleasantness of a Religious Life, 1714
How you should spend your time – Richard Baxter
O Spend your time as you would hear of it in the Judgment!
– Richard Baxter –
1615-1691
Release your grasp on the temporal – Jim Elliot
Father, let me loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the tension of the grasping hand. Open my hand to receive the nail of Calvary, as Christ’s was opened. He thought Heaven, yea, equality with God, not a thing to be clutched at. So let me release my grasp.
– Jim Elliot –