The soul which gives itself wholly and without reserve to God is filled with His own peace; and the closer we draw to our God, so much the stronger and more steadfast and tranquil shall we become.
– Jean Nicolas Grou –
Christian Life
Truly Trusting the Lord – Hannah Whitall Smith
You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more difficult than these, that you need to be anxious about His management of it?
– Hannah Whitall Smith –
True Peace in Keeping God at the Center – Edward B. Pusey
True peace is when the soul revolves around its center, Almighty God, craving for nothing but what God continually supplies. Since the soul is large enough to contain the infinite God, nothing less than Himself can satisfy or fill it.
– Edward B. Pusey –
God has Girded You for Difficulty – Horace Bushnell
Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.
– Horace Bushnell –
Faith Rests on the Promises – Richard Cecil
Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf, unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine, and a table in the wilderness. In the greatest danger, faith says, “I have a great God.” When outward strength is broken, faith rests on the promises.
– Richard Cecil –
Elisha Dead … – Steve Wilburn
Elisha had more of the Holy Spirit, dead, than most Christians have of Him, alive.
– Steve Wilburn –
The Price of the Prayer Meeting – Jim Cymbala
They will pay $15 for a Christian concert to hear a Christian singer and for free they won’t come into the presence of God and call upon the name of the Lord.
– Jim Cymbala –
The Kingdom of God Within You – Martin Lloyd Jones
When Jesus said “The Kingdom of God is within you,” He meant that kingdom that governs and controls the heart and mind and outlook.
– Martin Lloyd Jones –
One Eternal Lesson for Us All – Henry Drummond
The world is not a play-ground; it is a school-room. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love.
– Henry Drummond –