Stubbornness and self-love give way to beauty in one who has been broken by God.
– Watchman Nee –
from The Release of the Spirit
Sin – Temptation
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 5, 2012
There is no sin so strong that you have to yield to it.
– Watchman Nee –
June 2, 2012
The sin of prayerlessness is a proof…that the life of God in the soul is in deadly sickness and weakness.
– Andrew Murray –
June 1, 2012
I grieve that my love is no stronger, and that I am no more like Him. I wonder at His glory, and sink before Him with shame. How is it that the soul being of such value, and God so great, eternity so near and yet we are so little moved?
– William Bramwell –
May 31, 2012
The worst sin is prayerlessness.
– PT Forsyth –
May 30, 2012
A man is dead when he no longer resists the will of God in anything. Dead men do not resist. You must go to God as a lamb, to obey, follow and die.
– Thomas Haire –
May 26, 2012
This is what is so unique about the kingdom of heaven. In other kingdoms, the kings rule from without. Jesus rules from within [us]. Other kings are satisfied as we supply them; Jesus wants to supply us. Other kings desire that we defend them; Jesus wants to be our defense. Other kings want us to serve them; Jesus wants to serve through us. In our absolute poverty, helplessness, we have nothing to offer Him. He can be our total supply and source His life through us. The only blockade to this relationship is our own self-sourcing.
– Stephen Manley –
from “The Poor” (Matthew 5:3)