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 –
Discipline
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 –
Know How Men Are To Be Saved – Charles Spurgeon
For God’s sake, let us know how men are to be saved, and get to the work: to be forever deliberating as to the proper mode of making bread while a nation dies of famine is detestable trifling
– Charles Spurgeon –
from Lectures to My Students
Why You Struggle in Prayer – Oswald Chambers
If we are struggling in prayer it is because the wiles of the enemy are getting the upper hand, and we must look for the cause in our lack of discipline. There are some things we have not been strenuously practicing. We used to pray in the morning, do we now? We used to commune with God over the Bible, do we now? We used to be in contact with God wherever we went, are we now? Put on the whole armor of God and continuously practice, then the wiles of the devil cannot get you unaware.
– Oswald Chambers –
from If You Will Ask, 30