Turn your loneliness into solitude, and your solitude into prayer.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
from The Path of Loneliness
Fear – Worry – Anxiety
Faith, Optimism, and Discouragement – George Kulp
Faith makes a man an optimist. The man who believes God cannot be discouraged. He hears the Master talking to him and, as he listens to Him, there comes the comforting words, “I am with thee even to the end.” Now, the devil can launch his brigades and his divisions and his legions, but this man sees the other side and shouts the victory.
– George Kulp –
Fear or Faith? – Smith Wigglesworth
Fear looks but faith jumps.
– Smith Wigglesworth –
No Fishing For Sin – Corrie ten Boom
When the Lord takes your sins, you never see them again. He casts them into the depths of the sea, forgiven and forgotten. I even believe that He places a sign over them that reads: “No fishing allowed.”
– Corrie ten Boom –
Leonard Ravenhill on Pleasing God
If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease?
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Keeping the devil on his throne – William Gurnall
Everything the sinner has—time, strength, intellect, and all—is spent to keep the devil on his throne.
– William Gurnall –
Don’t Justify What You Need to Crucify – Unknown
Stop trying to justify what you need to crucify.
– Unknown –
Before the Sleepless, Lukewarm, Faithless, Namby-pamby Christian World – CT Studd
We will not build on the sand, but on the bedrock of the sayings of Christ, and the gates and minions of hell shall not prevail against us. Should such men as we fear? Before the whole world, yes, before the sleepless, lukewarm, faithless, namby-pamby Christian world, we will dare to trust our God, we will venture our all for Him, we will live and we will die for Him, and we will do it with His joy unspeakable singing aloud in our hearts. We will a thousand times sooner die trusting only in our God than live trusting in man. And when we come to this position the battle is already won, and the end of the glorious campaign in sight. We will have the real Holiness of God, not the sickly stuff of talk and dainty words and pretty thoughts; we will have a Masculine Holiness, one of daring faith and works for Jesus Christ.
– CT Studd –
Heavenly Hope – William Gurnall
Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
– William Gurnall –