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
God’s Will
Prayer is Absolutely Vital – Charles Spurgeon
Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.
– Charles Spurgeon –
The Best is Yet to Be – Corrie ten Boom
When the worst happens in the life of a child of God the best remains, and the very best is yet to be.
– Corrie ten Boom –
God is Powerful – Thomas Aquinas
God is so powerful that He can direct any evil to a good end.*
– Thomas Aquinas –
1225-1274
* see Romans 8:28
Heroes of Faith – AW Tozer
We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day—but remember at the time they didn’t know they were heroes.
– AW Tozer –
Live on Christ and For Christ – Charles Spurgeon
Be earnest, be prayerful, be united. Study the Word, and practice it. Live on Christ, and live for Him.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from Letters of Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Know, Love, and Imitate God – John Milton
The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
– John Milton –
1608 – 1674 AD
The History of God’s Specific Movements – T. Austin-Sparks
The history of God’s specific movements with the Church is not the history of His adding something, but of His bringing back to the primal fullness with which He filled His Son.
– T. Austin-Sparks –
Sons and Daughters of God – Hugh Binning
Is there any privilege so precious as this, to be the sons of God (1 John 3:2)? What are all the relations, or states, or conditions to this one, to be the children of the Highest? It was David’s question, “Should I be the king’s son-in-law?” Alas! What a petty and poor dignity compared with this, to be the sons of God, partakers of a divine nature!
– Hugh Binning –
from the book Christian Love
1627-1653