He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and
for heaven.
– EM Bounds –
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God Did Not Love Us For Our Goodness – John Cotton
It may be that we are sinful; but God did not love us for our goodness, neither will He cast us off for our wickedness. Yet this is no encouragement to licentiousness, for God knows how to put us to anguishes and straits and crosses, and yet to reserve everlasting life for us.
– John Cotton –
1585 – 1652 AD
A Mighty Longing After God – AW Tozer
I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.
– AW Tozer –
Can’t Live the Christian Life Without the Spirit – DL Moody
You might as well try to hear without ears, or breathe without lungs, as try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart.
– Dwight L. Moody –
Lack of Knowledge and Want – AW Tozer
The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.
– AW Tozer –
Revival Brings a Conscious Awareness of God – Stephen Olford
Revival is not some emotion or worked-up excitement; it is rather an invasion from heaven which brings to man a conscious awareness of God.
– Stephen Olford –
God is Powerful – Thomas Aquinas
God is so powerful that He can direct any evil to a good end.*
– Thomas Aquinas –
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* see Romans 8:28
We Have Lost Our Lofty Concept of God – AW Tozer
The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshiping men. This she has not done deliberately, but little by little and without her knowledge; and her very unawareness only makes her situation all the more tragic.
– AW Tozer –
Give Time to God – AW Tozer
The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.
– AW Tozer –