Sourcing

November 27, 2011

If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. The Apostles themselves, who set on foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English Evangelicals who abolished the Slave Trade, all left their mark on Earth precisely because their minds were occupied with Heaven. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

– C. S. Lewis –
Mere Christianity

November 25, 2011

No one can lead farther than he himself has gone.

– A. W. Tozer –

November 24, 2011

God uses people. God uses people to perform His work. He does not send angels. Angels weep over it, but God does not use angels to accomplish His purposes. He uses burdened broken-hearted, weeping men and women.

– David Wilkerson –

November 22, 2011

Remember, my giving will be rewarded not by how much I have but by how much I had left.

– A. W. Tozer –

November 21, 2011

Charity—giving to the poor—is an essential part of Christian morality. . . . I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than is comfortable. In other words, if our expenditures on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc. is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving too little.

– C. S. Lewis –
Mere Christianity

November 18, 2011

Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving service in hell when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle.

– C. T. Studd –

November 11, 2011

The deeper we are willing to enter into the death of self, the more shall we know of the mighty power of God, and the perfect blessedness of a perfect trust.

– Andrew Murray –

November 9, 2011

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice to Him.

– Jim Elliot –

November 6, 2011

In our abandonment we give ourselves over to God just as God gave Himself for us, without any calculation. The consequences of abandonment never enter into our outlook because our life is taken up with Him.

– Oswald Chambers –
from My Utmost for His Highest