Intimacy

May 6, 2012

Real gold fears no fire!

– Randy Alcorn –
from his book Safely Home

May 5, 2012

Apart from Me you can do nothing!

– Jesus –

May 4, 2012

If I am to love the Lord my God with ALL my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that?

– Elisabeth Elliot –
in Discipline: The Glad Surrender (page 74)

May 3, 2012

Your religious life is every day to be a proof that God works impossibilities; your religious life is to be a series of impossibilities made possible and actual by God’s almighty power.

– Andrew Murray –

May 2, 2012

I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.

– C.T. Studd –

April 29, 2012

A pure heart is one to which all that is not of God is strange and jarring.

– John Tavler –
as was often quoted by Amy Carmichael 

April 28, 2012

Others before me have gone  much farther into these holy mysteries than I have done, but if my fire is not large it is yet real, and there may be those who can light their candle at its flame.

– AW Tozer –
from Pursuit of God 

April 27, 2012

Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.

– Hudson Taylor –

April 23, 2012

Only Christ can live the Christian life – He never said we could; He always said He would!

– Ian Thomas –