Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of God, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please.
– Brother Lawrence –
from The Practice of the Presence of God
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
– CS Lewis –
Seest thou the necessity of that inward change, that spiritual birth, that life from the dead, that holiness? And art thou thoroughly convinced, that without it no man shall see the Lord?
– John Wesley –
from his sermon “Awake, Thou That Sleepest”
Let me find thy light in my darkness, thy life in my death, thy joy in my sorrow, thy grace in my sin, thy riches in my poverty, they glory in my valley.
– The Valley of Vision –
A collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
“O my God, I lie in Thy fire burning and purifying – so much dross I seem to discover today, so little of Thy sweet and lovely grace in dealing with others’ faults. Lord, forgive me.”
– Oswald Chambers –
from Knocking at God’s Door, March 8
You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ”Blessed are they that mourn.”
— CS Lewis –
I am recklessly pursuing the high calling of being like Jesus. This is my truest joy and highest passion. To be lost in Him is my soul’s desire!
– Ben Zornes –
A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
– JC Ryle –