Lord, use our lives to stimulate in others a desire for you.
– Stephen Manley –
Christian Life
Where your treasure is – Augustine
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure. Where your treasure is, there is your heart. Where your heart is, there is your happiness.
– Augustine –
354-430 AD
What kind of habitation pleases God? – AW Tozer
What kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before He can feel at home within us? He asks nothing but a pure heart and a single mind.
– AW Tozer –
Growing in Grace – JC Ryle
When I speak of a person growing in grace, I mean simply this —that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, and his spiritual mindedness more marked.
– JC Ryle –
Find Rest in God – Corrie Ten Boom
If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. If you look at God you’ll be at rest.
– Corrie ten Boom –
The Habit of True Prayer – Martin Luther
We must be careful not to break the habit of true prayer and … become lax and lazy, cool and listless toward prayer. The devil who besets us is not lazy or careless, and our flesh is too ready and eager to sin and is disinclined to the spirit of prayer.
– Martin Luther –
from A Simple Way to Pray
The Treasure of Affliction – Thomas Brooks
Afflictions are the golden key by which the Lord opens the rich treasure of His word to his people’s souls.
– Thomas Brooks –
1608–1680
Walking the Talk – William Perkins
God abhors Godly speech which is not joined with a Godly life (Psalm 50:16-17).
– William Perkins –
1592
Do you look like the world? – AW Tozer
One compromise here, another there, and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.
– AW Tozer –
from A Man of God