Grace

March 27, 2012

The secret of the success of the Apostles lay not in what they did and said, but in the presence of Christ in them and with them. They saw with the eyes of Christ, felt with His heart, and worked with His energies. They were nothing; Christ was everything. Christ was living, breathing, and triumphing in their personal lives. Their entire nature being replete with His life, their spirits bathed in His light, and their souls kindled with the fires of His love, they moved in the midst of men as embodiments of supernatural power… Brethren, this is what we must be, if this mighty Empire (China) is to be moved through us. But to be this, the throne of grace must be our refuge, the secret place of the Most High must be our daily and hourly habitation.

– Griffith John –

March 23, 2012

The world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully consecrated to him. By God’s help, I aim to be that man.

– DL Moody –

While often attributed to D.L. Moody, the quote was actually given by Henry Varley in a conversation he had with Moody. Several renditions of the quote have been given:

The world has not seen what God can do with a life fully yielded to Him.

The world has yet to see what God can do with and for and through and in and by the man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him. I aim to be that man.

March 20, 2012

All my devotion is an insult to God unless every bit of my practical life squares with Jesus Christ’s demands.

– Oswald Chambers –

March 6, 2012

There are some who would have Christ cheap. They would have Him without the Cross. But the price will not come down.

– Samuel Rutherford –

February 27, 2012

The chief danger of the 20th Century will be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.

– William Booth –

February 25, 2012

The enemy will not see you vanish into God’s company without an effort to reclaim you.

– C.S. Lewis –

February 16, 2012

Prayer is self-discipline. The effort to realize the presence and power of God stretches the sinews of the soul and hardens its muscles. To pray is to grow in grace. To tarry in the presence of the King leads to new loyalty and devotion on the part of the faithful subjects. Christian character grows in the secret-place of prayer.

– Samuel M. Zwemer –

January 3, 2012

They lose nothing who gain Christ.

– Samuel Rutherford –

December 31, 2011

In the Irish Revival of 1859, people became so weak that they could not get back to their homes. Men and women would fall by the wayside and would be found hours later pleading with God to save their souls. They felt that they were slipping into hell and that nothing else in life mattered but to get right with God… To them eternity meant everything. Nothing else was of any consequence. They felt that if God did not have mercy on them and save them, they were doomed for all time to come.

– Oswald J. Smith –