Does it not thrill our hearts to realize that we do not go forward in our own strength! Think of it, God Himself is with us for our Captain! The Lord of Hosts is present in Person on every field of conflict, to encourage us and fight with us. With such a Leader, who never lost a battle, or deserted a soldier in distress, or failed to get through the needed supplies, who would not accept the challenge to go forward, “bearing precious seed”?
– John Stam –
Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.
– CT Studd –
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one’s self in God’s glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.
– EM Bounds –
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
Unwillingness to accept God’s “way of escape” from temptation frightens me what a rebel yet resides within.
– Jim Elliot –
My God, here I am wholly devoted to Thee. Lord, make me according to Thy heart.
– Brother Lawrence –
Humility is not so much a grace or virus along with; it is the root of all, because it alone assumes the right attitude before God and allows Him as God to do all.
– Andrew Murray –
from Humility
Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.
– Brother Lawrence –
Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists.
– AW Tozer –
from That Incredible Christian