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
Discipline
Not To Be Weary of Doing Little Things – Brother Lawrence
We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.
– Brother Lawrence –
Laugh The Laugh Of Faith Not Fear – Amy Carmichael
We are never to overcome, but to rise unvanquished after every knockout blow and laugh the laugh of faith not fear
– Amy Carmichael –
Communion With Christ – Samuel Rutherford
I urge upon you communion with Christ a growing communion. There are curtains to be drawn aside in Christ that we never saw, and new foldings of love in him. I despair that I shall every win to the far end of that love, there are so many plies in it. Therefore dig deep, and sweat and labor and take pains for him, and set by as much time in the day for him as you can. We will be won in the labor
– Samuel Rutherford –
Not To Act Is To Act – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
Prayer Can Only Teach The Heart To Preach – EM Bounds
In the school of prayer only can the heart learn to preach. No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
– EM Bounds –
Greatest Of All Mistakes – Sydney Smith
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can
– Sydney Smith –
Never give in – Winston Churchill
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
– Winston Churchill –
No Man Is Safe Apart From God – Oswald Chambers
Beware of the people who tell you life is simple. Life is such a mass of complications that no man is safe apart from God. Coming to Jesus does not simplify life; it simplifies my relationship to God.
– Oswald Chambers –