If I am to love the Lord my God with ALL my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that?
– Elisabeth Elliot –
in Discipline: The Glad Surrender (page 74)
Your religious life is every day to be a proof that God works impossibilities; your religious life is to be a series of impossibilities made possible and actual by God’s almighty power.
– Andrew Murray –
I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.
– C.T. Studd –
Christians don’t tell lies, they just go to church and sing them.
– AW Tozer –
Only Christ can live the Christian life – He never said we could; He always said He would!
– Ian Thomas –
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
– Jim Elliot –
That’s the excitement in obedience – finding out later what God had in mind.
– Brother Andrew –
from God’s Smuggler, page 101
God will not do a bit more through you than you have faith for.
– Rees Howells –
It is simply impossible to discover heavenly things through human means.
– Eric Ludy –
from Teaching True Love to a Sex at 13 Generation, page 40