What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
– Augustine –
Needy Orphan Widow Destitute
God Will Supply All Our Needs – Elisabeth Elliot
God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Compassion Costs – Samuel Chadwick
Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but it takes heart to comfort.
– Samuel Chadwick –
Meeting Jesus Where He Is – Richard Wurmbrand
Whoever wishes to meet Jesus must meet him in places where brothers and sisters of Jesus are hungry, thirsty, naked, unwanted, sick or in prison. Whoever keeps himself distant from these places remains distant from Jesus.
– Richard Wurmbrand –
Hiring Out the Christian Life? – Cal Thomas
It is now possible to live a “christian life” without doing the things that Jesus commanded us to do. We have hired people to go into all the world, to visit those in prison, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to care for widows and orphans. The average Christian doesn’t have to do it.
– Cal Thomas –
Go to the Poor – Tony Campolo
Jesus never says to the poor: “come find the church,” but he says to those of us in the church: “go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.”
– Tony Campolo –
True Repentance – George Whitefield
True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His law, and in His people.
– George Whitefield –
May My Time Be Used to the Advantage of Christ – Thomas Chalmers
Pray that the brief remaining time I have in this world may be employed to the best advantage, both for the profit of my own soul and for that of others. More especially may the time spent in company be laid out for Christ, and not lost in the common-places and frivolities of ordinary conversation. May my speech be leavened with religion and yet be adapted to the peculiarities and the needs of every man, so that all offence may, when possible, be shunned, yet many be won to the faith and the following of Jesus.
– Thomas Chalmers –
from Sabbath Scripture Readings
Comfort Heart and Feet – William Booth
It is impossible to comfort men’s hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.
– William Booth –