God’s Nature

Why Our Prayers Are Often Ineffective and Powerless – Unknown Christian

Are not our prayers so often ineffective and powerless—and sometimes even prayerless—becuase we rush unthinkingly and unpreparedly into God’s presence, without realizing the majesty and glory of the God whom we are approaching, and without reflecting upon the exceeding great riches of his glory in Christ Jesus, which we hope to draw upon? We must “think magnificently of God.”

– Unknown Christian –
from The Kneeling Christian

Dying Thoughts – Richard Baxter

Is he the God of the hills, and not of the valleys? Did he love me in my youth and health, and will he not also in my age and pain and sickness?

– Richard Baxter – 
from Dying Thoughts, 1683

Why Should God Love Us? – DL Moody

If you ask me why God should love us, I cannot tell. I suppose it is because He is a true Father. It is His nature to love; just as it is the nature of the sun to shine.

– DL Moody – 

Every Renunciation Led to Glory – Elisabeth Elliot

After the Crucifixion came the Resurrection. After the Resurrection the Ascension. Because Jesus wore a crown of thorns, He now wears a crown of glory. Because He came poor, He now sits enthroned. Because He made Himself of no reputation, He now has a name which is above every name. Because He was willing to become a slave, He is now Master of everything. Because He was obedient to death, He is Lord of Life and holds the keys of hell and death. Because He made Himself of no reputation, every knee will someday bow before Him. Every renunciation led to glory.

– Elisabeth Elliot –
from The Path of Loneliness

God Uses All Seasons of Life – Thomas Watson

As the Lord makes use of all the seasons of the year, frost and heat, to produce the harvest, so all prosperous and adverse providences are for the promoting of the work of holiness in the soul.

– Thomas Watson –
from The Godly Man’s Picture