Love

July 24, 2012

Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.

– Brother Lawrence –

July 17, 2012

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 –

July 12, 2012

Stubbornness and self-love give way to beauty in one who has been broken by God.

– Watchman Nee –
from The Release of the Spirit 

July 1, 2012

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 

June 17, 2012

“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

May 22, 2012

You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness.

– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –

May 14, 2012

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 –

May 6, 2012

Real gold fears no fire!

– Randy Alcorn –
from his book Safely Home

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)