England will do well when it transfers its affections from poodles and terriers to poor and destitute children.
– Catherine Booth –
Consecration
November 18, 2011
Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving service in hell when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle.
– C. T. Studd –
November 11, 2011
The deeper we are willing to enter into the death of self, the more shall we know of the mighty power of God, and the perfect blessedness of a perfect trust.
– Andrew Murray –
November 9, 2011
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice to Him.
– Jim Elliot –
November 6, 2011
In our abandonment we give ourselves over to God just as God gave Himself for us, without any calculation. The consequences of abandonment never enter into our outlook because our life is taken up with Him.
– Oswald Chambers –
from My Utmost for His Highest
November 5, 2011
The reason some of us are such poor specimens of Christianity is because we have no Almighty Christ. We have Christian attributes and experiences, but there is no abandonment to Jesus Christ.
– Oswald Chambers –
from My Utmost for His Highest
November 4, 2011
The preoccupations of seventeen-year-old girls – their looks, their clothes, their social life – don’t change much from generation to generation. But, in every generation there seem to be a few who make other choices. Amy Carmichael was one of the few.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
from A Chance to Die (biography about Amy Carmichael), 31
November 3, 2011
Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.
– Oswald Chambers –
from My Utmost for His Highest
November 2, 2011
The holy, all-loving, all-powerful, all-mighty, perfectly peaceful and joyful Life of God is waiting to be ours. It is a priceless gift that comes with only one condition: His Life can only be had in exchange for our own.
– Eric Ludy –
from God’s Gift to Women, 106