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 –
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 continually over your own spirit, and do all in love; we must grow downwards in humility to soar heavenward.
– Charles Simeon –
1759-1836
“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 –
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
There must be Spirit in me as there is Spirit in the Scriptures, before I can see anything.
– Richard Sibbes –
1577-1635
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
There are two things to do about the Gospel – believe it and behave it.
– Susanna Wesley –
1669-1742
Mother of John and Charles Wesley
Keep your life so constant in its contact with God that His surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as He likes.
– Oswald Chambers –