The first thing for our soul’s health, the first thing for His glory, and the first thing for our own usefulness, is to keep ourselves in perpetual communion with the Lord Jesus…
– Charles Spurgeon –
Intimacy
January 8, 2013
How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose! … YOU drove them from me, YOU Who are the True, the Sovereign Joy drove them from me and took their place! … O Lord, my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation!
– St. Augustine –
December 11, 2012
God’s sacred intent for you and for me is nothing short of absolute abandonment to Jesus, entire separation from the pollution of the world, and ardent worship of our King with every breath we take.
– Leslie Ludy –
December 1, 2012
Let me seek Thee in longing, let me long for Thee in seeking; let me find Thee in love, and love Thee in finding.
– Anselm of Canterbury –
November 2, 2012
Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.
– AW Tozer –
October 31, 2012
The time I spend with God determines both the direction and quality of the time I spend elsewhere.
– Randy Alcorn –
October 18, 2012
Thou art the life of my soul as my soul is the life of my body.
– Francois Fenelon and Jeanne Guyon –
from Spiritual Progress
October 17, 2012
It is a great thing to enter the inner chamber, and shut the door, and meet the Father in secret. It is a greater thing to open the door again, and go out, in an enjoyment of that presence which nothing can disturb.
– Andrew Murray –
from The Prayer Life
October 16, 2012
It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide lovingly united to God’s will – that is my whole business.
– Brother Lawrence –