God’s training is for now, not later. His purpose is for this very minute, not for sometime in the future. We have nothing to do with what will follow our obedience, and we are wrong to concern ourselves with it. What people call preparation, God sees as the goal itself.
– Oswald Chambers –
When was the last time the presence of God made you forget what was going on around you?
– Tim Dilena –
The only safe place for sheep is by the side of the shepherd, because the devil does not fear sheep; he just fears the shepherd.
– AW Tozer –
from A Man of God
For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.
– Augustine –
354-430 AD
The Christian’s life is a matchless riddle. No worldling can understand it. Dead, yet alive! Crucified with Christ, and yet at the same time Risen with Christ in newness of life! Union with the suffering, bleeding Saviour, and death to the world and sin, are soul-cheering things. O for more enjoyment of them.
– Charles Spurgeon –
The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.
– James Denney –
You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn’t reach your purse has not reached your heart.
– Adrian Rogers –
Pray, O pray, my brother! never, never quit your hold of the fullness of God; for time is nearly over, and if this fullness be lost it will be lost forever. I am astonished that we do not pray more, yea, that we do not live every moment as on the brink of the eternal world, and in the blessed expectation of that glorious country.
– William Bramwell –
Never mind man’s frown if God smiles.
– Catherine Booth –