You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
– CS Lewis –
Sympathy is no substitute for action.
– David Livingstone –
The root of the Divine life is faith; the chief branches are love to God, charity to man, purity, and humility.
– Henry Scougal –
from The Life of God in the Soul of Man
Faithfulness in little things is a big thing.
– Chrysostom –
347-407 AD
Faith is the key that unlocks Paradise and lets a flood of joy into the soul.
– Thomas Brooks –
Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.
– Smith Wigglesworth –
If we, indeed, desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and, therefore, through the trial, be strengthened.
– George Müller –
from Answers to Prayer
1805-1898
We would faint, or falter, if we did not believe (Psa. 27:13), and faltering would prove our strength of faith to be very small (Prov. 24:10). But our faith would faint were it not upheld and quickened by the Word of God.
– Ralph Venning –
from Learning in Christ’s School, 1675
A faith that doesn’t impact your daily life — your home, your marriage, your family, your work, etc — is no faith at all.
– Elisabeth Elliot –