Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
– Augustine –
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
– Augustine –
The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven’t yet come to the end of themselves. We’re still trying to give orders, and interfering with God’s work within us.
– AW Tozer –
Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.
– George Whitefield –
The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures.
– AW Tozer –
I am content to fill a little space if God be glorified.
– Susanna Wesley –
mother of John and Charles Wesley
God sends no one away empty, except those who are full of themselves.
– DL Moody –
You have nothing to be proud of. If you are ever used at all, bear in mind that it is God speaking in you, and not you yourself.
– DL Moody –
Lord, High and Holy, meek and lowly,
Thou hast brought me to the valley of vision,
where I live in the depths but see thee in the heights;
hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold thy glory.
Let me learn by paradox
that the way down is the way up,
that to be low is to be high,
that the broken heart is the healed heart,
that the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit,
that the repenting soul is the victorious soul,
that to have nothing is to possess all,
that to bear the cross is to wear the crown,
that to give is to receive,
that the valley is the place of vision.
Lord, in the daytime stars can be seen from deepest wells,
and the deeper the wells the brighter thy stars shine;
Let me find thy light in my darkness,
thy life in my death,
they joy in my sorrow,
thy grace in my sin,
thy riches in my poverty,
thy glory in my valley.
– taken from The Valley of Vision –
(a collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions)
Being broken is both God’s work and ours. He brings His pressure to bear, but we have to make the choice … All day long the choice will be before us in a thousand ways.
– Roy Hession –