People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives … and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.
– Nate Saint –
(missionary martyr with Jim Elliot)
To be “in the will of God” is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart. To a sanctified soul the will of God is its implicit life, as natural as breathing. It is the sick man who knows intellectually what the will of God is; but a sanctified heart is the expression of the will of God. Its motto is: “My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.”
– Oswald Chambers –
Do not be satisfied with as much Christianity as will only ease your conscience.
– JB Stoney –
Every irritation is an invitation [to love].
– Pamela Mullens –
When alone with God, be alone with Him.
– Samuel Chadwick –
Nothing so effectually hinders hearing God’s voice as opening the heart too much to other voices. A heart too deeply interested in the news, the literature, and the society of this world cannot hear the divine voice. It needs stillness, retirement, and concentration to give God the heed He claims.
– Andrew Murray –
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful adjustment to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest. The world recognizes them and accepts them for what they are. And this is the saddest thing that can be said about them. They are not lonely, but neither are they saints.
– AW Tozer –
A man set on fire is an apostle of his age …Tell me, is your ministry a burning and shining light, or a smoking wick, slowly dying out to ashes? … We need the dynamic of a flaming ministry that will set the Church on fire.
– Samuel M. Zwemer –
By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
– Watchman Nee –