You must die in order to live. You must refuse to consult your own ease and well-being. You must be crucified, not only in desires and habits which are sinful, but in many more which appear innocent and right.
– Lettie B. Cowman –
Streams in the Desert
Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God’s most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.
– Charles Stanley –
May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow
with the divine fire of holy desire.
– AB Simpson –
Most people in America, when they are exposed to the Christian faith, are not being transformed. They take one step into the door, and the journey ends. They are not being allowed, encouraged, or equipped to love or to think like Christ. Yet in many ways a focus on spiritual formation fits what a new generation is really seeking. Transformation is a process, a journey, not a one-time decision.
– David Kinnaman –
Become pure in heart. The pure in heart shall see God. Here, then, is one opening for soul-culture—the avenue through purity of heart to the spiritual seeing of God.
– Henry Drummond –
The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge but to change our lives.
– DL Moody –
Understand who Jesus Christ is: to know Him is to love Him, to love Him is to trust Him; and to trust Him is to be radically, dramatically, and eternally transformed.
– Adrian Rogers –
God wants not nibbles of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.
– CT Studd –
The place where we are [at now] is God’s schoolroom, not somewhere else. Here we may be conformed to the likeness of Christ.
– Elisabeth Elliot –