Dependence

August 1, 2012

Unwillingness to accept God’s “way of escape” from temptation frightens me what a rebel yet resides within.

– Jim Elliot –

July 28, 2012

My God, here I am wholly devoted to Thee. Lord, make me according to Thy heart.

– Brother Lawrence –

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