Love

July 28, 2012

My God, here I am wholly devoted to Thee. Lord, make me according to Thy heart.

– Brother Lawrence –

July 27, 2012

The only lover of the Lord Jesus is the Holy Ghost, and He sheds abroad the very love of God in our hearts. Whenever the Holy Ghost sees a chance of glorifying Jesus, He will take your heart, your nerves, your whole personality, and simply make you blaze and glow with devotion to Jesus Christ.

– Oswald Chambers –

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 –