For God’s sake, let us know how men are to be saved, and get to the work: to be forever deliberating as to the proper mode of making bread while a nation dies of famine is detestable trifling
– Charles Spurgeon –
from Lectures to My Students
God’s Will
True Religion – Henry Scougal
True religion is a union of the soul with God, a real participation of the Divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or, in the apostle’s phrase, “it is Christ formed within us.”
– Henry Scougal –
from The Life of God in the Soul of Man
Unable To Hear My Voice – C S Lewis
He thinks great folly child,’ said Aslan. ‘This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles the ground. It will not be so for long. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growling’s and roaring’s. Oh Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good! …
– CS Lewis –
Devotion Signifies a Devoted Life to God – William Law
Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God, who considers God in everything, who serves God in everything, who makes all the parts of his common life, parts of piety, by doing everything in the name of God, and under such rules as are conformable to his Glory.
– William Law –
from A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, 1729
Prayer is a Connection – Austen Phelps
Prayer is, and God has purposed that it should be, a link of connection between human mind and Divine mind, by which, through His infinite condescension, we may actually move His will.
– Austen Phelps –
from his book The Still Hour: Communion with God in Prayer, 1859
Immune From Trouble – Oswald Chambers
There are disasters to be faced by the one who is in real fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ. God has never promised to keep us immune from trouble; He says “I will be with him in trouble,” which is a very different thing.
– Oswald Chambers –
Let Us Trust God in the Dark – Ichabod Spencer
We are unable to penetrate God’s designs; and the things which seem to us most severe are often to be numbered among our most remarkable mercies. Let us take them submissively at his hand. If there is goodness anywhere, it is to be found in God. Let us trust him. Let us trust him in the dark.
– Ichabod Spencer –
from Practical Sermons
Glorify God by Conversions – Charles Spurgeon
In life, beloved brethren, by any means, by all means, labor to glorify God by conversions, and rest not till your heart’s desire is fulfilled.
– Charles Spurgeon –
If we have a purpose of our own – Oswald Chambers
If we have a purpose of our own, it destroys the simplicity and the leisureliness which ought to characterise the children of God.
– Oswald Chambers –