We are to be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect, not by struggle and effort, but by the impartation of that which is perfect.
– Oswald Chambers –
Holiness
September 12, 2012
The preoccupations of young women…do not change very much from generation to generation. But in every generation there seem to be a few who make other choices.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
August 31, 2012
God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so well He had rather see a hole than a spot in His child’s garments.
– William Gurnall –
August 17, 2012
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.
– EM Bounds –
August 4, 2012
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
August 1, 2012
Unwillingness to accept God’s “way of escape” from temptation frightens me what a rebel yet resides within.
– Jim Elliot –
July 28, 2012
My God, here I am wholly devoted to Thee. Lord, make me according to Thy heart.
– Brother Lawrence –
July 26, 2012
Pray God to send a few men with what the Americans call “grit” in them; men, who: when they know a thing to be right, will not turn away or aside, or stop; men who will persevere all the more because there are difficulties to meet or foes to encounter; who stand all the more true to their Master because they are opposed; who, the more they are thrust into the fire, the hotter they become; who, just like the bow, the further the string is drawn the more powerfully it sends forth its arrows, and so the more they are trodden upon, the more mighty will they become in the cause of truth against error.
– Charles Spurgeon –
July 23, 2012
Tomorrow’s character is made out of today’s thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin doesn’t.
– Randy Alcorn –
from The Purity Principle