If I am to love the Lord my God with ALL my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that?
– Elisabeth Elliot –
in Discipline: The Glad Surrender (page 74)
I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.
– C.T. Studd –
A pure heart is one to which all that is not of God is strange and jarring.
– John Tavler –
as was often quoted by Amy Carmichael
Others before me have gone much farther into these holy mysteries than I have done, but if my fire is not large it is yet real, and there may be those who can light their candle at its flame.
– AW Tozer –
from Pursuit of God
Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.
– Hudson Taylor –
Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Christians don’t tell lies, they just go to church and sing them.
– AW Tozer –
Only Christ can live the Christian life – He never said we could; He always said He would!
– Ian Thomas –
Am I willing to trade my addiction to the world’s entertainment for more time with my Bible?
“Blessed is the man . . . whose delight is the law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night.” (Psalm 1.1-2)
– Leslie Ludy –
in Set Apart Femininity, page 74