A spiritual awakening is no more than God’s people seeing God in His holiness, turning from their wicked ways, and being transformed into His likeness.
– Lewis Drummond –
Are You a Reservoir or a Canal? – Bernard of Clairvaux
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. A canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, and a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus without loss to itself communicates its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day we have many canals but few reservoirs.
– Bernard of Clairvaux –
Holiness in the Here and Now – Duncan Campbell
True holiness is a Revival of Holiness. Personal holiness is more desirable than happiness … and it is not in heaven alone that God wants our saintliness —it is here and now; holiness is not just a doctrine to be taught, it is a way of life —it is the life of Jesus.
– Duncan Campbell –
Abide in Christ – JC Ryle
Abide in Me says Jesus. Cling to Me. Stick fast to Me. Live the life of close and intimate communion with Me. Get nearer to Me. Roll every burden on Me. Cast your whole weight on Me. Never let go your hold on Me for a moment. Be, as it were, rooted and planted in Me. Do this and I will never fail you. I will ever abide in you.
– JC Ryle –
Jesus is the Answer – Timothy Keller
Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
– Timothy Keller –
True Pleasure in True Religion – Matthew Henry
There is true pleasure in true religion. … You startle at it, and start from it as a hard saying, like Nathaniel, when he said, ‘Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?’ (John 1.46). So you are ready to say, can there be any pleasure in religion? Believe it, sirs, there can be, there cannot but be pleasure in it.
– Matthew Henry –
from The Pleasantness of a Religious Life, 1714
Consume My Life Oh God – Jim Elliot
Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like You, Lord Jesus.
– Jim Elliot –
1927-1956
Guard Your Secret Life with God – Oswald Chambers
When a worker jealously guards his secret life with God the public life will take care of itself.
– Oswald Chambers –
Lose Your Life and Find God’s Love – Elisabeth Elliot
With what misgivings we turn over our lives to God, imagining somehow that we are about to lose everything that matters. Our hesitancy is like that of a tiny shell on the seashore, afraid to give up the teaspoon of water it holds lest there not be enough in the ocean to fill it again. Lose your life, said Jesus, and you will find it. Give up, and I will give you all. Can the shell imagine the depth and plenitude of the ocean? Can you and I fathom the riches, the fullness, of God’s Love?
– Elisabeth Elliot –
from The Path of Loneliness