Obedience

May 5, 2012

Apart from Me you can do nothing!

– Jesus –

May 1, 2012

Don’t worry about what others think or whether or not they understand. Just obey God.

– Joshua Harris –
from Not Even a Hint, 67

April 30, 2012

When He was crucified He did that in the wild weather of His outlying provinces which He had done at home in glory and gladness.

– George MacDonald –
as quoted by C.S. Lewis

April 24, 2012

Christians don’t tell lies, they just go to church and sing them.

– AW Tozer –

April 23, 2012

Only Christ can live the Christian life – He never said we could; He always said He would!

– Ian Thomas –

April 22, 2012

Am I willing to trade my addiction to the world’s entertainment for more time with my Bible?

“Blessed is the man . . . whose delight is the law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night.” (Psalm 1.1-2)

– Leslie Ludy –
in Set Apart Femininity, page 74

April 20, 2012

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

– Jim Elliot –

April 18, 2012

No one whose senses have been exercised to know good and evil but must grieve over the sight of zealous souls seeking to be filled with the Holy Spirit while they are yet living in a state of moral carelessness or borderline sin. Such a things is a moral contradiction. Whoever would be filled and indwell by the Spirit should first judge his life for any hidden iniquities; he should courageously expel from his heart everything which is out of accord with the character of God as revealed by the Holy Scriptures.

– AW Tozer –

April 17, 2012

That’s the excitement in obedience – finding out later what God had in mind.

– Brother Andrew –
from God’s Smuggler, page 101