Life is pitiful, death so familiar, suffering and pain so common, yet I would not be anywhere else. Do not wish me out of this or in any way seek to get me out, for I will not be got out while this trial is on. These are my people, God has given them to me, and I will live or die with them for Him and His glory.
– Gladys Aylward –
The “show business,” which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from our Lord’s conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes.
– Oswald Chambers –
It is not enough to do God’s work; it must be done in His way and for His credit.
– Erwin Lutzer –
I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said to me: “Moody save all you can.”
– Dwight L. Moody –
Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life — tell them who God is.
– Paul Washer –
O Lord my God, in you I put my trust. Psalms 7:1
“O God, one day we will laugh ourselves to scorn that we looked for so little from you.”
– George Macdonald –
Ask missionaries (regardless of age – 12 or 112) and they’ll tell you they have one goal – God. God first. God last. God in all things. Not to go out and feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, make busy with conversion activity, but God first. With God as the goal, the homeless get a roof, the hungry get fed, the cold get warmed, the lonely get a friend, and the wanderer finds a way.
– Steve Case –
At the judgement seat of Christ more than one faith-confessing charismatic will have to sputter out a reason why he chose to claim classy cars instead of countries.
– David Shibley –
God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible. What a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.
– AW Tozer –
from A Man of God