The chief danger of the 20th Century will be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.
– William Booth –
Dependence
February 22, 2012
It is the Holy Ghost in us that is everything, and the Father is willing to bestow Him upon the weakest if he will only ask in the spirit of implicit faith and entire self-surrender. My cry these days is for a Pentecost, first on myself and my missionary brethren, and then on the native Church, and then on the heathen at large.
– Griffith John –
February 20, 2012
True Christianity is nothing but the continual dependence upon God through Christ for all life, light, and virtue; and the false religion of satan is to seek that goodness from any other source.
– William Law –
from Power of the Spirit
February 19, 2012
The heart of man is narrow, and cannot contain both loves. The world draws down the heart from God; and so the more the love of the world prevails the more the love of God dwindles and decays… The Spirit of God in true Christians is opposed to the spirit of the world.
– Matthew Henry –
February 17, 2012
By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a FEVER!
– Watchman Nee –
February 16, 2012
Prayer is self-discipline. The effort to realize the presence and power of God stretches the sinews of the soul and hardens its muscles. To pray is to grow in grace. To tarry in the presence of the King leads to new loyalty and devotion on the part of the faithful subjects. Christian character grows in the secret-place of prayer.
– Samuel M. Zwemer –
February 15, 2012
Our power in drawing others after the Lord mainly rests in our joy and communion with Him ourselves.
– J. G. Bellett –
January 25, 2012
The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine; and at the right time, and in the right way, is the right fruit found on it. Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.
– Hudson Taylor –
January 11, 2012
Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh…. Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.
– AW Tozer –