Perfect love of God with our heart, soul, mind, and strength will not happen until we are no longer compelled to think about ourselves.
– Bernard of Clairvaux –
from On the Love of God
Intimacy
April 3, 2013
A man must first love God or have his heart united to him, before he will esteem God’s good his own, and before he will desire the glorifying, and enjoying of God as his happiness.
– Jonathan Edwards –
from A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
April 1, 2013
Do you continually remind those under your care, that the one rational end of all our studies, is to know, love, and serve the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent?
– John Wesley –
from Scriptural Christianity
March 27, 2013
The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.
– AW Tozer –
March 21, 2013
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
– Charles Spurgeon –
March 14, 2013
He who lives without prayer – he who lives with little prayer – he who seldom reads the Word – he who seldom looks up to heaven for a fresh influence from on high – he will be the man whose heart will become dry and barren; but he who calls in secret on his God – who spends much time in holy retirement – who delights to meditate on the words of the Most High – whose soul is given up to Christ – such a man must have an overflowing heart; and as his heart is, such will his life be.
– Charles Spurgeon –
March 7, 2013
Oh what a Jesus!
– NRJohnson –
March 2, 2013
If a man had to wade breast deep through a thousand hells to obtain Christ–it would be well worth the venture, if at the last he might but say, “My Beloved is mine–and I am His!”
– Charles Spurgeon –
February 24, 2013
The closer a person is to God, the more terrible the least sin seems to be.
– Rees Howells –