Bread for today is bread enough.
– EM Bounds –
from The Necessity of Prayer
Dependence
April 7, 2013
All of my need He freely supplieth,
Day after day His goodness I prove;
Mercies unfailing, new every morning,
Tell me of God’s unchanging love.
– Thomas Chisholm –
from the hymn He Supplieth All of My Need
April 6, 2013
Unclaimed promises are like uncashed checks; they will keep us from bankruptcy, but not from want.
– Frances Ridley Havergal –
from Kept for the Master’s Use (1879)
April 3, 2013
A man must first love God or have his heart united to him, before he will esteem God’s good his own, and before he will desire the glorifying, and enjoying of God as his happiness.
– Jonathan Edwards –
from A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
April 2, 2013
There is only one way to love God: to take not a single step without him, and to follow with a brave heart wherever he leads.
– Francois Fenelon –
from Christian Perfection
March 31, 2013
God’s manner is not to bring comfortable texts of Scripture to give men assurance of his love, and that they shall be happy, before they have had a faith of dependence.
– Jonathan Edwards –
from A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
March 23, 2013
I have cast my anchor in the port of peace, knowing that present and future are in nail-pierced hands.
– The Valley of Vision –
March 22, 2013
It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
March 17, 2013
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
– CS Lewis –