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 –
Christian Life
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 –
No Substitute for Action – David Livingstone
Sympathy is no substitute for action.
– David Livingstone –
Seek God Alone – John Wesley
In using all means, seek God alone. In and through every outward thing, look only to the power of His Spirit, and the merits of His Son.
– John Wesley –
Mirroring Christ – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Our soul should be a mirror of Christ; we should reflect every feature: for every grace in Christ there should be a counterpart in us.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
from a letter he wrote February 26, 1840