We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ”Blessed are they that mourn.”
— CS Lewis –
Grace
May 14, 2012
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 –
May 13, 2012
A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
– JC Ryle –
May 9, 2012
If the Lord fails me at this time, it will be the first time.
– George Müller –
May 6, 2012
Real gold fears no fire!
– Randy Alcorn –
from his book Safely Home
May 4, 2012
If I am to love the Lord my God with ALL my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that?
– Elisabeth Elliot –
in Discipline: The Glad Surrender (page 74)
May 3, 2012
Your religious life is every day to be a proof that God works impossibilities; your religious life is to be a series of impossibilities made possible and actual by God’s almighty power.
– Andrew Murray –
May 2, 2012
I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.
– C.T. Studd –
April 30, 2012
When He was crucified He did that in the wild weather of His outlying provinces which He had done at home in glory and gladness.
– George MacDonald –
as quoted by C.S. Lewis