This frail but tenacious woman leaned wholeheartedly upon the Spirit and strength of God to do what could never be done in human strength.
– said of Catherine Booth –
Faith
Faith has Influence – Thomas Brooks
Faith has an influence upon all other graces: it is like a silver thread, that runs through a chain of pearls; it puts strength and vivacity into all other graces.
– Thomas Brooks –
Thankful vs Giving Thanks – Joni Eareckson Tada
God isn’t asking you to be thankful. He’s asking you to give thanks. There’s a big difference. One response involves emotions, the other your choices, your decisions about a situation, your intent, your step of faith.
– Joni Eareckson Tada –
My response to God’s ability – Corrie ten Boon
It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
– Corrie ten Boon –
Simple Confident Faith – Andrew Murray
We need this simple, confident faith that God will give us what we ask for. Where it really exists, there will be no mistake about whether or not we should pray.
– Andrew Murray –
from The Ministry of Intercession
Growing in Grace – JC Ryle
When I speak of a person growing in grace, I mean simply this —that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, and his spiritual mindedness more marked.
– JC Ryle –
Faith and prayer – EM Bounds
When faith ceases to pray, it ceases to live.
– EM Bounds –
Spirit-filled souls ablaze for God – Samuel Chadwick
Spirit-filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God.
– Samuel Chadwick –
Faith is Good for Everything – Charles Spurgeon
(Faith) is good for everything—good for the timid to make them strong, good for the rash to make them wise; it is good for those who are desponding to make them brave, and good for those who are too daring, to make them discreet. There is no respect in which faith is not useful to us, therefore, whatever you leave out, see to your faith; if you forget all besides, be careful above all that ye take the shield of faith (Ephesians 6:16).
– Charles Spurgeon –
from the sermon “The Shield of Faith”, October 27,1861