Christ was in an agony at prayer (Luke 22: 44). Many when they pray are rather in a lethargy, than in an agony. When they are about the world they are all fire; when they are at prayer, they are all Ice.
– Thomas Watson –
Joy & Happiness
May 30, 2015
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
– Billy Sunday –
March 10, 2015
You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.
March 4, 2015
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called “The rejoicing of hope.”
March 3, 2015
If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
March 2, 2015
Laughter and tears are the warp and woof of life. If you leave them out of preaching, you are leaving out life itself.
February 17, 2015
A carnal heart thinks, I must have my wants made up or else it is impossible that I should be content. But a gracious heart says, “What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into?”
– Jeremiah Burroughs –
from The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, 1648
February 14, 2015
Our business is to love and delight ourselves in God.
– Brother Lawrence –
January 20, 2015
A life spent in the service of God and in communion with him, is the most pleasant life that any one can live in the world.
– Matthew Henry –