God’s Nature

November 20, 2013

It is a source of deep sorrow to me, that, notwithstanding my having so many times before referred to this point, thereby to encourage believers in the Lord Jesus, to roll all their cares upon God, and to trust in Him at all times, it is yet, by so many, put down to mere natural causes, that I am helped; as if the Living God were no more the Living God, and as if in former ages answers to prayer might have been expected, but that in the nineteenth century they must not be looked for.

– George Müller –

October 22, 2013

The good Lord has a time for everything, and you’d do well not to rush Him, for He never goes any faster, you just miss out on the beauty along the way.

– Granny Lyndon –

June 6, 2013

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

– CH Spurgeon –

May 21, 2013

I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion – these lit by the Spirit of God.
I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words. I have prayed for new miracles. Explaining old miracles will not do. If God is to be known as the God who does wonders in heaven and earth, then God must produce for this generation. Lord, fill preachers and preaching with Thy power. How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, hatred and love? Not long, I pray, Lord Jesus, not long …

– Jim Elliot –

May 3, 2013

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

– Andrew Murray –

April 24, 2013

Actually, faith is most reasonable. What is more reasonable than that a creature should trust his Creator? Is it insane to believe in One Who can neither lie nor fail nor err? To trust God is the most sensible, sane, rational thing that a man can do. It is no leap in the dark. Faith demands the surest evidence and finds it in God’s unfailing Word. No one has ever trusted Him in vain; no one ever will. Faith in the Lord involves no risk whatever.

– William MacDonald –

April 9, 2013

It is true that all God requires of us we lack; but it is also true that all we need He supplies.

– Evan Hopkins –

April 7, 2013

All of my need He freely supplieth,
Day after day His goodness I prove;
Mercies unfailing, new every morning,
Tell me of God’s unchanging love.

– Thomas Chisholm –
from the hymn He Supplieth All of My Need

March 31, 2013

God’s manner is not to bring comfortable texts of Scripture to give men assurance of his love, and that they shall be happy, before they have had a faith of dependence.

– Jonathan Edwards –
from A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections