Oh my friends, we are loaded down with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing the world and winning the lost, is almost entirely neglected!
– Oswald J. Smith –
Work
Our Business is to Please God – Brother Lawrence
Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.
– Brother Lawrence –
The Man God Needs – EM Bounds
It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God – men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.
– EM Bounds –
Sleeping to Hell or Sweating to Heaven? – Thomas Watson
Are there not millions of us who would rather go sleeping to hell; than sweating to heaven?
– Thomas Watson –
(1620-1686)
Joy in Work – William Wilberforce
The gospel freely admitted makes a man happy. It gives him peace with God, and makes him happy in God. It gives to industry a noble, contented look which selfish drudgery never wore; and from the moment that a man begins to do his work for his Saviour’s sake, he feels that the most ordinary employments are full of sweetness and dignity, and that the most difficult are not impossible.
And if any of you, my friends, is weary with his work, if dissatisfaction with yourself or sorrow of any kind disheartens you, if at any time you feel the dull paralysis of conscious sin, or the depressing influence of vexing thoughts, look to Jesus, and be happy. Be happy, and your joyful work will prosper well.
– William Wilberforce –
Why We Work – DL Moody
We work because we are saved. We do not work to be saved. We work from the cross, but not toward it. (see Ephesians 2:8-10)
– DL Moody –
from his book The Way to God
Christ’s soldiers – Catherine Booth
Christ’s soldiers must be imbued with the spirit of war. Love to the King and concern of His interests must be the master passion of the soul… If the hearts of the Christians of this generation were inspired with this spirit and set on winning the world for God, we should soon see the nations shaken to their center, and millions of souls translated into the Kingdom.
– Catherine Booth –
The Desire of Every Great Soul Winner – Samuel Brengle
It is said that Sheridan went to battle with all the fury of a madman, and recklessly exposed himself to the shot and shell of the enemy. He told General Horace Porter that he never went into a battle from which he cared to come back alive unless he came as a victor. This desperation made him an irresistible inspiration to his own troops, and enabled him to hurl them like thunderbolts against his foes. If he became so desperate in killing men, how much more desperate, if possible, should we become in our effort and desire to save them!
It was written of Jesus, “The zeal of Thine house hath eaten me up,” and so it can be of every great soul-winner.
– Samuel Brengle –
It Never Can Be Mastered Without Diligent Effort – William Wilberforce
No one expects to reach the heights of success in education, the arts, finance or athletics without a great deal of hard work and perseverance. We often use the expression “You have to really want it!” Growing in our faith requires the same. Christianity is based on a revelation from God that is filled with information that the natural mind could never have imagined. The wealth of this knowledge will never be mastered without diligent effort.
– William Wilberforce –