I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.
– AW Tozer –
Prayer —secret, fervent, believing prayer—lies at the root of all personal godliness.
– William Carey –
Let us hold to Christ more closely, love him more heartily, live for him more thoroughly, copy him more exactly, confess him more boldly, follow him more fully. Religion like this will always bring its own reward. Worldly people may laugh at it. Weak brethren may think it extreme. But it will wear well. In sickness it will bring peace. In the world to come it will give us a crown of glory that fades not away.
– JC Ryle –
from Sickness
You might as well try to hear without ears, or breathe without lungs, as try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart.
– Dwight L. Moody –
As long as I live and love and hear and work, I must pray at all times.
– Andrew Murray –
I am not the author of the plan of salvation, but I am responsible for the way I preach it.
– Billy Sunday –
Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God’s loan to us, and should never be considered in any sense our own. We have no more right to claim credit for special abilities than for blue eyes or strong muscles. “For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?” (1 Corinthians 4:17).
– AW Tozer –
from The Pursuit of God
Are you truly a Spirit-filled Christian? Does the term Spirit-filled describe your doctrine or your devotion?
– David Smithers –
The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.
– AW Tozer –