Come, then, let us restore the lost chord of Christianity heroism to the world, and the crown of the world to Christ. Christ Himself asks the question, “Will you be a Malingerer or a Militant?”
To your knees, man! And to your Bible! Decide at once! Don’t hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses.
– CT Studd –
I resolve to carry the mark of the children of God, the great distinction of the Christian—a life of prayer.
– Andrew Murray –
Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.
– Andrew Murray –
God has hidden every precious thing in such a way that it is a reward to the diligent, a prize to the earnest, but a disappointment to the slothful soul. All nature is arrayed against the lounger and the idler. The nut is hidden in its thorny case; the pearl is buried beneath the ocean waves; the gold is imprisoned in the rocky bosom of the mountains; the gem is found only after you crush the rock which encloses it; the very soil gives its harvest as a reward to the laboring farmer. So truth and God must be earnestly sought.
– AB Simpson –
When Jesus said the Kingdom of God is within you, He meant that kingdom that governs and controls the heart and mind and outlook.
– Martin Lloyd-Jones –
Satan is so much more in earnest than we are–he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost
– Amy Carmichael –
Preaching is God’s great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.
– EM Bounds –
Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen
– Oswald Chambers –
To go back is nothing but death: to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward
– John Bunyan –
from the book Pilgrim’s Progress