If it sounds like I’m sticking my nose into your business, remember that I say this with a regard to the eternal profit of your soul, and that the Lord has stirred me up to write of this. Christ needs some young fellows to sell out to Him and recklessly toss their lives into His work.
– Jim Elliot –
From a letter written to a friend, as quoted in Shadow of the Almighty
Do all the good you can,
by all the means you can,
in all the ways you can,
in all the places you can,
at all the times you can,
to all the people you can,
as long as ever you can!
– John Wesley –
rule for living
He who hath given himself entirely unto God, will never think he doth too much for him.
– Henry Scougal –
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
– Augustine –
We’re here to be worshippers first, and workers only second … The work done by a worshipper will have eternity in it.
– AW Tozer –
The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
– Corrie ten Boom –
from Not Good If Detached
If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
– Amy Carmichael –
If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
– Amy Carmichael –
Do everything, anything, however menial, measuring it not by hours or by [dollars] but by love.
– Amy Carmichael –