Show the world a real, living, self-sacrificing, hard-working, toiling, triumphing Christianity, and the world will be influenced by it; but anything short of that they will turn round and spit upon.
– Catherine Booth –
Work
Rest in Christ – Matt McMillen
God doesn’t want you to do religious stuff to feel better about yourself. He wants you to rest in Christ.
– Matt McMillen –
Eternity is Fast Approaching – Charles Spurgeon
If you have work to do, you must do it soon. The wheels of eternity are sounding behind you, press on! If you are to run a race you must run it fast, for death will soon overtake you.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Doing the Lord’s Work – Corrie Ten Boom
Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
– Corrie Ten Boom –
Fear God, Work Hard – David Livingstone
Fear God and work hard.
– David Livingstone –
Regardless of how you feel – Charles Spurgeon
If we never do any work for Christ except when we feel up to the mark, we shall not do much. If we feel that we will not pray because we cannot pray, we shall never pray.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from The Soul Winner
How you should spend your time – Richard Baxter
O Spend your time as you would hear of it in the Judgment!
– Richard Baxter –
1615-1691
Don’t be lazy in prayer – Martin Luther
We must be careful not to break the habit of true prayer and … become lax and lazy, cool and listless toward prayer. The devil who besets us is not lazy or careless, and our flesh is too ready and eager to sin and is disinclined to the spirit of prayer.
– Martin Luther –
from A Simple Way to Pray
Enabling Grace – Charles Spurgeon
Grace makes us the servants of God while still we are the servants of men: it enables us to do the business of heaven while we are attending to the business of earth: It sanctifies the common duties of life by showing us how to perform them in the light of heaven.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from Council for Christian Workers