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 –
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone.
– Charles Wesley –
Unwillingness to accept God’s “way of escape” from temptation frightens me what a rebel yet resides within.
– Jim Elliot –
Many would be scantily clad if clothed in humility.
– Unknown –
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
– Bernard of Clairvaux –
Humility is not so much a grace or virus along with; it is the root of all, because it alone assumes the right attitude before God and allows Him as God to do all.
– Andrew Murray –
from Humility
But if the path we tread be rough and lowly; it is that in which our great Exemplar has gone before. Going down into the valley of humiliation we walk in His footsteps.
– John Dawson –
from The Saviour in the Workshop
It is always unpleasant to be spoken against, and forsaken, and lied about, and to stand alone. But there is no help for it. The cup which our Master drank must be drunk by His disciples.
– JC Ryle –
from his book Holiness