When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.
– James Hudson Taylor –
God’s Nature
Only God can make you godly – Major Ian Thomas
The moment you come to realize that only God can make a man godly, you are left with no option but to find God, and to know God, and to let God be God in and through you.
– Major Ian Thomas –
God’s Method – EM Bounds
Men are God’s method. The church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
– EM Bounds –
Mercy is God’s Nature – Thomas Watson
God is more willing to pardon than to punish. Mercy does more multiply in Him than sin in us. Mercy is His nature.
– Thomas Watson –
God’s Great Mercy – Charles Spurgeon
God’s mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Ignorance of Scripture – Jerome of Stridon
Ignorance of the Scripture is ignorance of Christ.
– Jerome of Stridon –
mid-300s AD
Great Men or Great God? – Paul Washer
There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.
– Paul Washer –
Complete Trust in God – Elisabeth Elliot
Are we still willing to place our complete trust in God, believing that He really does know what He’s doing?
– Elisabeth Elliot –
What I Learned in Sickness – Gaspar Olevianus
In this disease I have learned how great God is, and what the evil of sin is.
– Gaspar Olevianus –
1586 … as quoted in Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices by Thomas Brooks, 1652