Look unto Jesus. So often people say to me, “Oh but Corrie, you have such a great faith.” But I have not a great faith. I have a small faith, but it is a faith in a great God. And it is not written in the Bible, “Let us look unto faith.” In Hebrews 12 it says, “Let us look unto Jesus, the Author and the Finisher of our faith.” Look around, and be distressed. Look within, and be depressed. Look at Jesus, and be at rest.
– Corrie ten Boom –
Paul’s all-consuming passion was that in his life and in his death Jesus Christ be honored, that is, that Jesus Christ be made to look like the infinite treasure that he is. The reason you have life is to make Jesus Christ look great. There is one central criterion that should govern all the decisions you make in life and in death: Will this help make Jesus Christ look like the treasure he is?
– John Piper –
. . . this philosophical postulate that the end of all being is the happiness of man has been sort of covered over with evangelical terms and Biblical doctrine until God reigns in heaven for the happiness of man, Jesus Christ was incarnate for the happiness of man, all the angels exist for the happiness of man, everything is for the happiness of man! And I submit to you that this is unchristian! Isn’t man happy? Didn’t God intend to make man happy? Yes. But as a by-product and not a prime-product.
– Paris Reidhead –
It is a safe thing too to trust Him to fulfill the desire which He creates …
– Amy Carmichael –
For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
– God –
Jeremiah 2:13
It is a source of deep sorrow to me, that, notwithstanding my having so many times before referred to this point, thereby to encourage believers in the Lord Jesus, to roll all their cares upon God, and to trust in Him at all times, it is yet, by so many, put down to mere natural causes, that I am helped; as if the Living God were no more the Living God, and as if in former ages answers to prayer might have been expected, but that in the nineteenth century they must not be looked for.
– George Müller –
To be “in the will of God” is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart … It’s motto is — “My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.”
– Oswald Chambers –
In the Scriptures there is a portrait of God, but in Christ there is God himself. A coin bears the image of Caesar, but Caesar´s son is his own lively resemblance. Christ is the living Bible.
The good Lord has a time for everything, and you’d do well not to rush Him, for He never goes any faster, you just miss out on the beauty along the way.
– Granny Lyndon –