Dependence

God Is Not Looking For Brilliant Men – Henry Ironside

God is not looking for brilliant men, is not depending upon eloquent men, is not shut up to the use of talented men in sending His gospel out in the world. God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God.

– Henry Ironside –

Never Doubt Christ’s Strength – William Gurnall

Doubt your own strength, but never doubt Christ’s. In your gravest conflicts with Satan, trust Him to bring you out of the devil’s dominion with a high hand, in spite of all the force and fury of hell.

– William Gurnall –
from The Christian in Complete Armour

Satisfied With Jesus – Brother Yun

Do not be satisfied with God’s calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself

– Brother Yun –

from the book The Heavenly Man

Perfect love – Henry Scougal

Perfect love is a kind of self-dereliction, a wandering out of ourselves; it is a kind of voluntary death, wherein the lover dies to himself, and all his own interest, not thinking of them, nor caring for them anymore, and minding nothing but how he may please and gratify the party whom he loves

– Henry Scougal –

When you come to your deathbed – JC Ryle

When you come to your deathbed, you will want something more than an example and a sacrament. Take heed that you are found resting all your weight on Christ’s substitution for you on the cross, and His atoning blood, or it will be better if you had never been born.

– JC Ryle –

So That God Alone May Be Exalted – Walter Searle

This may be counted as our richest gain, to have learned afresh one’s utter impotency so completely that the past axiom of service, ‘I can no more convert a soul than create a star,’ comes to be an awful revelation, so that God alone may be exalted in that day

– Walter Searle –