Saints are often drowsy, and listless, and half asleep; but the word and Spirit of Christ will put life and vigor into the soul.
– Matthew Henry –
Dependence
April 12, 2013
God’s plan with most of us appears to be a design to make us flexible, twisting us this way and that, now giving, now taking; but always at work for and in us.
– Elizabeth Prentiss –
from More Love to Thee
April 9, 2013
It is true that all God requires of us we lack; but it is also true that all we need He supplies.
– Evan Hopkins –
April 8, 2013
Bread for today is bread enough.
– EM Bounds –
from The Necessity of Prayer
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