A pure heart is one to which all that is not of God is strange and jarring.
– John Tavler –
as was often quoted by Amy Carmichael
Purity
April 27, 2012
Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.
– Hudson Taylor –
April 24, 2012
Christians don’t tell lies, they just go to church and sing them.
– AW Tozer –
April 19, 2012
The peace the Saviour gives is not an artificial one. It is so deep that even the devil can’t disturb it. You can’t hear things in the spirit, while you have any turmoil or fear in you. You can’t take a shade of fear into the presence of God.
– Rees Howells –
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 12, 2012
The words of the Lord hurt and offend until there is nothing left to be hurt or offended. Jesus has no tenderness whatsoever toward anything that is ultimately going to ruin a person in his service to God. If the Spirit of God brings to your mind a word of the Lord that hurts you, you may be sure that there is something He wants to hurt to death.
– Oswald Chambers –
March 31, 2012
All practical power over sin and over men depends on maintaining closet communion. Those who abide in the secret place with God show themselves mighty to conquer evil, and strong to work and to war for God. They are seers who read His secrets; they know His will; they are the meek whom He guides in judgment and teaches His way. They are His prophets who speak for Him to others, and even forecast things to come. They watch the signs of the times and discern His tokens and read His signals.
– Arthur T. Pierson –
March 30, 2012
The closer a person is to God, the more terrible is the least sin seen to be.
– Rees Howells –
March 29, 2012
God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life, that I may burn for Thee.
– Jim Elliot –