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
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 –
For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.
– Augustine –
354-430 AD
A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach and work and give money, he will cry and sigh and pray.
– JC Ryle –
Lord grant that the FIRE of my heart may melt the lead in my feet.
– Unknown –
A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.
– Charles H. Brent –
Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee more faithfully; to give and not to count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labour and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do Thy will, O Lord our God.
– A Traditional Prayer –
God never issues instructions He is not prepared to equip us to obey.
– Elizabeth Elliot –
In biblical thinking, genuine love exists only when good works are done in a context where God rather than the doer gets the credit.
– Daniel Fuller –