Humility

October 25, 2011

All Christians are not in proper relationship with their Lord. The present obvious dearth of revival is largely due to the fact that the majority of Christians are out of touch with the source of Divine power. Even at conventions, the first work needed is to get things put right in the lives of those attending. To give a sick stomach an overdose of cream is to risk indigestion. Even a sick stomach prefers the taste of cream to the flavor of the bitter medicine. Still the bitter medicine is necessary, and it does not prevent the enjoying and digesting of good food afterwards-rather it creates the actual appetite of good health, which is quite distinct from the false cravings of indigestion.”

– J.E. Orr –

October 23, 2011

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

– E. M. Bounds –

October 16, 2011

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

– E. M. Bounds –

October 14, 2011

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe.

– D. L. Moody –

October 10, 2011

You shall find this to be God’s usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.

– Richard Baxter –

October 1, 2011

Holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.

– Nathanael Emmons –

September 13, 2011

If the praise of others elates me, or if the blame of others depresses me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

– Amy Carmichael –
from her book If

September 12, 2011

The great test of whether the holiness we profess to seek or to attain is truth and life will be whether it be manifest in the increasing humility it produces. In the creature, humility is the one thing needed to allow God’s holiness to dwell in him and shine through him. In Jesus, the holy one of God who makes us holy, a divine humility was the secret of his life and his death and his exaltation; the one infallible test of our holiness will be the humility before God and men which marks us. Humility is the bloom and the beauty of holiness.

– Andrew Murray –

September 5, 2011

Until a humility which will rest in nothing less than the end and death of self; which gives up all the honor of men as Jesus did, to seek the honor that comes from God alone; which absolutely makes and counts itself nothing, that God may be all, that the Lord alone may be exalted – until such a humility be what we seek in Christ above our chief joy, and welcome at any price, there is very little hope of a religion that will conquer the world.

– CS Lewis –