We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
Obedience
October 14, 2012
We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).
– Ed Welch –
October 10, 2012
We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify our conduct. The very nature of things is that we must either quit praying or quit bad conduct. Cold, dead praying may exist with bad conduct, but cold, dead praying is no praying in God’s eyes. Our praying advances in power as it rectifies our lives. A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.
– EM Bounds –
October 5, 2012
If you would test the character of anything, you only need to inquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
– Watchman Nee –
October 1, 2012
I have nothing too precious for my Lord Jesus. He has asked for my very best; and I give, with all my heart, my very best to Him.
– Dr. Parker –
(worked with Hudson Taylor)
September 27, 2012
If there is any trouble in your heart, if you are in darkness, or in the power of sin, I bring to you the Son of God, with the promise that He will come in and take charge.
– Andrew Murray –
from his book Master’s Indwelling
September 23, 2012
Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every moment you believe to be the will of God.
– Jim Elliot –
July 16, 2012
It is always unpleasant to be spoken against, and forsaken, and lied about, and to stand alone. But there is no help for it. The cup which our Master drank must be drunk by His disciples.
– JC Ryle –
from his book Holiness
June 29, 2012
The perfect victory is to triumph over ourselves. For he that keepeth himself subject in such sort that his sensual affections be obedient to reason, and his reason in all things obedient to Me; that person is truly conqueror of himself . . .
– Thomas a Kempis –
from The Imitation of Christ