Dependence

November 29, 2011

You must do it! You cannot hold back. You have enjoyed yourself in Christianity long enough. You have had pleasant feelings, pleasant songs, pleasant meetings, pleasant prospects. There has been much of human happiness, much clapping of hands and shouting of praises -very much of heaven on earth. Now then, go to God and tell Him you are prepared as much as necessary to turn your back upon it all, and that you are willing to spend the rest of your days struggling in the midst of these perishing multitudes, whatever it may cost you.

– William Booth –

November 25, 2011

No one can lead farther than he himself has gone.

– A. W. Tozer –

November 11, 2011

The deeper we are willing to enter into the death of self, the more shall we know of the mighty power of God, and the perfect blessedness of a perfect trust.

– Andrew Murray –

November 9, 2011

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice to Him.

– Jim Elliot –

November 6, 2011

In our abandonment we give ourselves over to God just as God gave Himself for us, without any calculation. The consequences of abandonment never enter into our outlook because our life is taken up with Him.

– Oswald Chambers –
from My Utmost for His Highest

November 5, 2011

The reason some of us are such poor specimens of Christianity is because we have no Almighty Christ. We have Christian attributes and experiences, but there is no abandonment to Jesus Christ.

– Oswald Chambers –
from My Utmost for His Highest

November 4, 2011

The preoccupations of seventeen-year-old girls – their looks, their clothes, their social life – don’t change much from generation to generation. But, in every generation there seem to be a few who make other choices. Amy Carmichael was one of the few.

– Elisabeth Elliot –
from A Chance to Die (biography about Amy Carmichael), 31

November 3, 2011

Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

– Oswald Chambers –
from My Utmost for His Highest

November 1, 2011

We never test the resources of God until we attempt the IMPOSSIBLE.

– F. B. Meyer –