As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has his eyes on Christ.
– Gregory of Nyssa –
(c.330-c.395)
Sourcing
No Greater Lifestyle – Brother Lawrence
There’s no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.
– Brother Lawrence –
Not Going Under But Over – Catherine Booth
The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.
– Catherine Booth –
The Life of Another World – Richard Sibbes
The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.
– Richard Sibbes –
God Comes In To Rebuild – CS Lewis
Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. … You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.
– CS Lewis –
Kingdom of God Within You – Martin Lloyd-Jones
When Jesus said the Kingdom of God is within you, He meant that kingdom that governs and controls the heart and mind and outlook.
– Martin Lloyd-Jones –
Lord, Make Thyself Always Present to My Mind – John Wesley
Lord, make Thyself always present to my mind, and let Thy love fill and rule my soul in all those places, companies, and employments to which Thou callest me. Amen.
– John Wesley –
What We Need is a Sound Conversion – AW Tozer
I am convinced that many evangelicals are not truly and soundly converted. Among the evangelicals it is entirely possible to come into membership, to ooze in by osmosis, to leak through the cells of the church and never know what it means to be born of the Spirit and washed in the blood. A great deal that passes for the deeper life is nothing more or less than basic Christianity. There is nothing deeper about it, and it is where we should have been from the start. We should have been happy, joyous, victorious Christians walking in the Holy Spirit and not fulfilling the lusts of the flesh. Instead we have been chasing each other around the perpetual mountain.
What we need is what the old Methodists called a sound conversion. There is a difference between conversion and a sound conversion. People who have never been soundly converted do not have the Spirit to enlighten them. When they read the Sermon on the Mount or the teaching passages of the epistles that tell them how to live or the doctrinal passages that tell how they can live, they are unaffected. The Spirit who wrote them is not witnessing in their hearts because they have not been born of the Spirit.
– AW Tozer –
The Man Who Gazes – Alan Redpath
The man who gazes upon and contemplates day by day the face of the Lord Jesus Christ, and who has caught the glow of the reality that the Lord is not a theory but an indwelling power and force in his life, is as a mirror reflecting the glory of the Lord.
– Alan Redpath –