Our soul should be a mirror of Christ; we should reflect every feature: for every grace in Christ there should be a counterpart in us.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
from a letter he wrote February 26, 1840
Life
People Are Watching Your Life – George Swinnock
The course of thy life will speak more for thee than the discourse of thy lips.
– George Swinnock –
1627-1673
Imitate My Life – Charles Spurgeon
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. (Philippians 4:9 ESV) – It is well when a man can with advantage be so minutely copied as Paul might have been. Oh, for grace to imitate him this day and every day!
– Charles Spurgeon –
from the book Faith’s Checkbook
Live with Eternity in View – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Time for everything but prayer – Oswald Smith
Oh, how few find time for prayer! There is time for everything else—time to sleep and time to eat, time to read the newspaper and the novel, time to visit friends, time for everything else under the sun—but no time for prayer, the most important of all things, the one great essential!
– Oswald Smith –
Prayer is the Vital Breath of the Christian – Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.
– Oswald Chambers –
The Hardest Thing in Your Life – Lilias Trotter
Take the very hardest thing in your life – the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.
– Lilias Trotter –
Run the Race and Don’t Be Lazy – Basilea Schlink
Do not be lazy. Run each day’s race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God. Keep on running even when you have had a fall. The victory wreath is won by him who does not stay down, but always gets up again, grasps the banner of faith and keeps on running in the assurance that Jesus is Victor.
– Basilea Schlink –
Aligning Our Thinking to Scripture – Elisabeth Elliot
The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows our own crookedness. We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
