Dependence

March 3, 2014

He that willingly submits to the cross, to him its whole burden is changed into a sweet assurance of divine comfort. And the more the flesh is broken down by the cross, the more the spirit is strengthened by inward grace. It is not in man by nature to bear the cross, to love the cross, to deny self, to bring the body into subjection, and willingly to endure suffering. If thou look to thyself, thou canst accomplish nothing of all this. But if thou trust in the Lord, strength shall be given thee from heaven, and the world and the flesh shall be made subject to thy rule. Set thyself, therefore, to bear manfully the cross of thy Lord, who out of love was crucified for thee.

– Thomas a’Kempis –

March 1, 2014

The Lord is our inexhaustible treasure.

– Pandita Ramabai –

February 16, 2014

Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.

– Thomas Brooks –

February 11, 2014

Do not wait until you enter into temptation to ask for the help of Jesus. But let your life beforehand always be through Jesus. Let His nearness be your one desire. Jesus saves from sin, and to have Jesus is salvation from sin. Oh, that we could rightly understand this! The saving from sin is not an occasional event … When Jesus fills me, when Jesus is all for me, sin has no hold on me.

– Andrew Murray –

February 9, 2014

The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon divine grace.

– Brother Lawrence –

February 7, 2014

You don’t have the desire to be fully God’s unless He puts that desire within you. And what God starts, He finishes.

– Ben Zornes –

February 6, 2014

There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin.

– Leonard Ravenhill –

February 5, 2014

You may have your own bed, but I know God’s grace.

– Jackie Pullinger –

January 31, 2014

We have not to produce out of our higher nature a lowliness and a patience and a purity of our own, but simply to let the pure, patient, lowly life of Jesus have its way in us by yieldingness to it and by faith in its indwelling might. “All that God wants from man is opportunity.” The whole of our relationship to His power, whether for sanctification or for service, is summed up in those words.

– Lilias Trotter –