Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
– E. M. Bounds –
Humility
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 –
August 27, 2011
The real test of being in the Presence of God is that you forget about yourself altogether.
– CS Lewis –
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)