Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.
– CT Studd –
Humility
August 29, 2012
Pride springs from desire. Man aspires to obtain a place for himself that he may feel honoured before men. He loves to hear praising voices and considers them just and true. He also attempts to elevate himself in his work, whether in preaching or in writing, for his secret self motive goads him on. In a word, this one has not yet died to his desire of vainglory. He is still seeking what he desires and what can inflate him.
– Watchman Nee –
August 24, 2012
No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harbored in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline.
– Charles Spurgeon –
August 21, 2012
Do not be taken in or flattered by your own success or fame. Take not only as to whether or not the old creation, including everything which comes by birth, has gone through the cross.
– Watchman Nee –
August 15, 2012
In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, Lucifer could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.
– CS Lewis –
from A Preface to Paradise Lost
August 13, 2012
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
– DL Moody –
August 9, 2012
If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due improvement of one of these occasions, than we could have done merely by imitating his mercy, in abundance of good works.
– John Wesley –
August 5, 2012
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one’s self in God’s glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.
– EM Bounds –
August 4, 2012
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –