God loves to take sorrowful tragedy and turn it into surprising triumph.
– David Platt –
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Love that leads the way – Amy Carmichael
Give me the love that leads the way
The faith that nothing can dismay
The hope no disappointments tire
The passion that will burn like fire
Let me not sink to be a clod
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God!”
– Amy Carmichael –
Come Do This With Me – Oswald Chambers
A child always admires anyone with skill, and the teacher who says, “Do this and that has no influence over a child compared with the one who says, “Come and do this with me.” When a child has seen his teacher do a thing and is asked to do it, instantly the instinct of emulation is at work.
– Oswald Chambers –
About John Newton
John Newton was not bothered by the telephone, but he was by people coming to his home. He said, “When I hear a knock at my study door, I hear a message from God; it may be a message of instruction; perhaps a lesson of patience; but, since it is His message, it must be interesting.”
Quoted in the book On Being a Pastor by Derek Prime and Alistair Begg
Watch Over Your Soul – Charles Simeon
Watch continually over your own spirit, and do all in love; we must grow downwards in humility to soar heavenward.
– Charles Simeon –
1759-1836
Need Faith to be Useful – Charles Spurgeon
“According to your faith be it unto you.”(Matt 9:29) It is essential, then, that we should have faith if we are to be useful, and that we should have great faith if we are to be greatly useful.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Lead Me That I May Know How I Ought To Declare – William Burns
How hard it is to unite in just proportions the humbling doctrine of man’s inability to come to Christ without regeneration, and the free gospel offer which is the moral means employed by God in conversion! Oh! Spirit of Jesus, my Saviour, lead me, a poor, ignorant, and self-conceited sinner, to the experience of this great mystery of grace, that I may know how I ought to declare thy glorious gospel to perishing fellow-sinners! Amen.
– William Burns –
Scottish Missionary to China 1815-1868
The Necessity of the Spirit – Richard Sibbes
There must be Spirit in me as there is Spirit in the Scriptures, before I can see anything.
– Richard Sibbes –
1577-1635
The Ways of Holiness and Sin – Samuel Bolton
As there is peace and good in the ways of holiness, so there is evil and trouble in the ways of sin. They are never separated. Trouble is the natural and proper fruit of sin, the fruit which it naturally bears.
– Samuel Bolton –
from The True Bounds of Christian Freedom , 1645