Trust

April 21, 2013

Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.

– O. Hallesby –
from Prayer

April 12, 2013

God’s plan with most of us appears to be a design to make us flexible, twisting us this way and that, now giving, now taking; but always at work for and in us.

– Elizabeth Prentiss –
from More Love to Thee

April 9, 2013

It is true that all God requires of us we lack; but it is also true that all we need He supplies.

– Evan Hopkins –

April 7, 2013

All of my need He freely supplieth,
Day after day His goodness I prove;
Mercies unfailing, new every morning,
Tell me of God’s unchanging love.

– Thomas Chisholm –
from the hymn He Supplieth All of My Need

April 6, 2013

Unclaimed promises are like uncashed checks; they will keep us from bankruptcy, but not from want.

– Frances Ridley Havergal –
from Kept for the Master’s Use (1879)

March 31, 2013

God’s manner is not to bring comfortable texts of Scripture to give men assurance of his love, and that they shall be happy, before they have had a faith of dependence.

– Jonathan Edwards –
from A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections

March 28, 2013

‎What bliss to be a perfectly pardoned soul! What riches of grace does free forgiveness exhibit! To forgive all, to forgive fully, to forgive freely, to forgive ever! Here is a constellation of wonders; and when I think of how great my sins were, how dear were the precious drops which cleansed me from them, I am in a maze of wondering worshiping affection!

– Charles Spurgeon –

March 24, 2013

Oh, what a grievous downfall, to plunge from the utmost sense of security, from confidence and delight in God into such an awful terror that man shrinks from the sight of God more than from the sight and presence of the devil!

– Martin Luther –

March 23, 2013

I have cast my anchor in the port of peace, knowing that present and future are in nail-pierced hands.

– The Valley of Vision –