Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.
– Brother Lawrence –
Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.
– Brother Lawrence –
Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please God, that perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.
– Brother Lawrence –
Stubbornness and self-love give way to beauty in one who has been broken by God.
– Watchman Nee –
from The Release of the Spirit
Let me find thy light in my darkness, thy life in my death, thy joy in my sorrow, thy grace in my sin, thy riches in my poverty, they glory in my valley.
– The Valley of Vision –
A collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
“O my God, I lie in Thy fire burning and purifying – so much dross I seem to discover today, so little of Thy sweet and lovely grace in dealing with others’ faults. Lord, forgive me.”
– Oswald Chambers –
from Knocking at God’s Door, March 8
You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
I am recklessly pursuing the high calling of being like Jesus. This is my truest joy and highest passion. To be lost in Him is my soul’s desire!
– Ben Zornes –
Real gold fears no fire!
– Randy Alcorn –
from his book Safely Home
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)