Faith

March 4, 2013

Anything God has ever done, He can do now. Anything God has ever done anywhere He can do here. Anything God has ever done for anyone, He can do for you.

– AW Tozer –

March 1, 2013

Your Christian life is to be a continuous proof that God works impossibilities.

– Andrew Murray –

February 16, 2013

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.

– Guy H. King –

February 2, 2013

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

– Corrie ten Boom –

February 1, 2013

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

– Corrie ten Boom –

December 13, 2012

No faith is required to do the possible; actually [only] a morsel of this atom-powered stuff is needed to do the impossible.

– Leonard Ravenhill –

December 6, 2012

“Yet lackest thou one thing; Go sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor; he was grieved at that saying, and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions!” Poor youth! He had a good mind to be a Christian, and to inherit eternal life, but thought it too dear, if it could be purchased at no less an expense than of his estate! And thus many, both young and old, now-a-days, come running to worship our blessed Lord in public, and kneel before him in private, and inquire at his gospel, what they must do to inherit eternal life: but when they find they must renounce the self-enjoyment of riches, and forsake all in affection to follow him, they cry, “The Lord pardon us in this thing! We pray thee, have us excused” … He will not!”

– George Whitefield –

November 14, 2012

In the Western world the enemy has forsworn violence.  He comes against us no more with sword and fagot; he now comes smiling, bearing gifts.  He raises his eyes to heaven and swears that he too believes in the faith of our fathers, but his real purpose is to destroy that faith, or at least to modify it to such an extent that it is no longer the supernatural thing it once was.  He comes in the name of philosophy or psychology or anthropology, and with sweet reasonableness urges us to rethink our historic position, to be less rigid, more tolerant, more broadly understanding.

– AW Tozer –
from God Tells the Man Who Cares, p171

November 13, 2012

It has been shown that the primary limitation imposed upon you as man, in order that you may be in the likeness of your Maker and bear the image of the invisible, is that of total dependence upon God – in that your behavior, to be godly, must derive directly and exclusively from God’s activity in you and through you.  Any activity, therefore, in which you may engage, no matter how nobly conceived, which does not stem from this humble attitude of dependence upon God, violates the basic principles of your true humanity and the role for which you were created.  By independence (or the absence of faith), you eliminate God, the source of your own “godliness.”  But only God has the right to be the source of His own godliness, so that however unwittingly, you are acting as your own god!

You will still believe or pretend that you are worshiping God; but as the object of your imitation, even Christ Himself may only be an excuse for worshiping your own ability to imitate – an ability vested in yourself.  And this is the basis of all self-righteousness!

It is startling to discover that even God may be used as an excuse for worshiping yourself, demonstrating again the satanic genius for distorting truth and deceiving man – for it was to this temptation that Adam and Eve fell in the Garden!

– Ian Thomas –
The Mystery of Godliness, p187