Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness.
– Martin Luther –
God’s Nature
Attitude of the Average Christian – Leonard Ravenhill
The attitude of the average Christian today is relax and be raptured. But He is coming … and when God gets angry you’ve no idea what it is. Like a thousand volcanoes exploding. He has appointed a day in which He is going to judge the world and the poor blind world doesnt know much about it and the poor blind church doesnt think much about it now.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Untellable Fullness of Joy – Hannah Whitall Smith
Our God is so wonderfully good, and lovely, and blessed in every way that the mere fact of belonging to Him is enough for an untellable fullness of joy!
– Hannah Whitall Smith –
Missions – John Stott
His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice.
– John R. W. Stott –
Evidence of the Holy Spirit in your life – Leonard Ravenhill
Theres only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and thats a holy life
– Leonard Ravenhill –
I Am Lost Without Jesus – Oswald Chambers
O Lord, breathe on me till I am one with Thee in the temper of my mind and heart and disposition, unto Thee do I turn. How completely again I realize my lost-ness without Thee.
– Oswald Chambers –
from If You Will Ask
Christ’s Example of Love – Martin Bucer
Christ is put forward as the example of how we should love, and that is the most effective argument. How great was Christ’s love? What kind of love was his? Christ voluntarily gave himself up to death because of his great love for us—the greatest love anyone could have, in fact. The apostle asks us to imitate him.
– Martin Bucer –
1491-1551
God Always Gives His Best – Jim Elliot
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.
– Jim Elliot –
Because of the Christ-life Inside – CS Lewis
The Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.
– CS Lewis –