If you want a religion to make you feel comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.
– C.S. Lewis –
Hardship
August 26, 2011
There is no such thing as a Christianity without a cross. There is no such things as a Christianity without a cost. It costs everything.
– Nick Thompson –
August 25, 2011
God has made me as bread for His chosen ones, and if it is necessary for me to be ground in the teeth of lions in order to feed His children, then blessed be the name of the Lord.
– St. Ignatius, Early Christian Martyr –
(quoted in Cowman, Streams in the Desert, 1996, pg 238)
August 10, 2011
Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
August 4, 2011
God’s time for revival is the very darkest hour, when everything seems hopeless. It is always the Lord’s way to go to the very worst cases to manifest His glory.
– Andrew Gih –
July 25, 2011
Above all, we must be especially alert against the beginnings of temptation, for the enemy is more easily conquered if he is refused admittance to the mind and is met beyond the threshold when he knocks. — Someone has said very aptly: Resist the beginnings; remedies come too late, when by long delay the evil has gained strength. First, a mere thought comes to mind, then strong imagination, followed by pleasure, evil delight, and consent. Thus, because he is not resisted in the beginning, Satan gains full entry. And the longer a man delays in resisting, so much the weaker does he become each day, while the strength of the enemy grows against him.
– Thomas a Kempis –
from The Imitation of Christ
July 9, 2011
What nobler decoration of honor can any godly man seek after than his scars of service, his losses for the crown, his reproaches for Christ’s sake, his being worn out in his Master’s service.
– Mrs. Charles E. Cowman –
from “Streams in the Desert”
June 26, 2011
There is nothing better in the world for strengthening one’s faith than testings!… We were in the school of faith and there is nothing to be compared with having to be delivered to keep you abiding: you will never do it without.
– Rees Howells –
May 27, 2011
Are battles won without shed blood or tears?
– Amy Carmichael –