Dependence

July 25, 2012

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

July 24, 2012

Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.

– Brother Lawrence –

July 21, 2012

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 

July 20, 2012

Lord, thou has called me forth, I turn and call on thee.

– George MacDonald –
from Diary of an Old Soul 

July 18, 2012

It is a grand thing to have a man with whom God is, to entrust one’s business to.

– Andrew Murray –

July 17, 2012

Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please God, that perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.

– Brother Lawrence –

July 12, 2012

Stubbornness and self-love give way to beauty in one who has been broken by God.

– Watchman Nee –
from The Release of the Spirit 

July 1, 2012

Let me find thy light in my darkness, thy life in my death, thy joy in my sorrow, thy grace in my sin, thy riches in my poverty, they glory in my valley.

– The Valley of Vision –
A collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions 

June 25, 2012

Self-denial surely means something far greater than some slight and insignificant lessening of our self-indulgences!

– Hudson Taylor –