To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
– GK Chesterton –
Faith
Having the Reality of God’s Presence – Oswald Chambers
Having the reality of God’s presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.
– Oswald Chambers –
Jesus Equips for His Command – Oswald Chambers
If Jesus ever commanded us to do something that He was unable to equip us to accomplish, He would be a liar. And if we make our own inability a stumbling block or an excuse not to be obedient, it means that we are telling God that there is something which He has not yet taken into account.
– Oswald Chambers –
The Rights of a Christian – Oswald Chambers
The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.
– Oswald Chambers –
Nothing too Great and Nothing too Small – AW Pink
Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.
– AW Pink –
The High Price of Jesus’ Atonement – Paris Reidhead
Do you realize this? That if you were to somehow purpose to, from this day on, perfectly please God and succeed in doing it, that that perfect obedience, from this moment, would not acquire in the remainder of your life, enough merit to atone for one past sin, because God exacts and God demands perfect obedience and there’s no merit for giving him the minimal requirement.
– Paris Reidhead –
Enduring Great Trials Leads to a Strong Faith – George Müller
The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials.
– George Müller –
Commit Everything Unto the Lord – John Flavel
“Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established” (Proverbs 16:3). By works he means not only every enterprise and business we undertake, but every puzzling, intricate and doubtful event we fear. These being once committed by an act of faith, and our wills resigned to His, besides the comfort we shall have in the issue, we shall have the present advantage of a well-composed and peaceful spirit.
– John Flavel –
from The Mystery of Providence, 1678
The More Faith … – JC Ryle
The more faith the more victory! The more faith the more inward peace!
– JC Ryle –
from Holiness