Power

September 18, 2012

All God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them.

– Hudson Taylor –

September 13, 2012

Our recruits come out from home vastly raw and are largely parrots. They have been crammed with religion as though for an examination, and seem to come out to carry on their education rather than finish it. So many are just taught doctrines without ever having thought them out or searched the Scriptures for themselves. They come out like infants with pop guns. They need to be trained into soldiers with real devil-defying weapons. Some arrive thinking they are the last thing in high-class Christianity and have to find out they know little. That is why I keep the newcomers here at base for a time till I can make them really think out things and settle questions, not from hearsay but from Bible-say.

– CT Studd –

August 26, 2012

Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and one trivialities in which we are asked to waste our time and strength, and resolutely return to the apostolic ideal which made necessary the office of the pastorate. (We must resolve that) we will continue steadfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the Word.

– G. Campbell Morgan –

August 19, 2012

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

– John Wesley –

July 15, 2012

Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of God, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please.

– Brother Lawrence –
from The Practice of the Presence of God 

July 13, 2012

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

– CS Lewis –

June 27, 2012

Victory is not the experience of special Christians, it is instead an experience all believers may share.

– Watchman Nee –

June 25, 2012

Self-denial surely means something far greater than some slight and insignificant lessening of our self-indulgences!

– Hudson Taylor –

June 15, 2012

We have to learn to rely on the Holy Spirit because He alone gives the Word of God life. All our efforts to pump up faith in the Word of God is without quickening, without illumination. You reason to yourself and say, “Now God says this and I am going to believe it,” and you believe it, and re-believe it, and re-re-believe it, and nothing happens, simply because the vital power that makes the words living is not there.

– Oswald Chambers –
from Biblical Ethics