Sorrow and melting of heart fits us for every holy duty. A piece of lead, while it is in the lump, can be put to no use, but melt it, and you may then cast it into any mould, and it is made useful. So a heart that is hardened into a lump of sin is good for nothing, but when it is dissolved by repentance, it is useful.
– Thomas Watson –
from The Doctrine of Repentance, 1668
Will God ever ask you to do something you are not able to do? The answer is yes–all the time! It must be that way, for God’s glory and kingdom. If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory. He wants to reveal Himself to a watching world.
– Henry Blackaby –
Prayer was pre-eminently the business of his life.
– Biographer speaking of Edwin Payson –
We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work. It is the supreme activity of everything that is noblest in our personality.
– Oswald Chambers –
A faith that doesn’t impact your daily life — your home, your marriage, your family, your work, etc — is no faith at all.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.
–George Whitefield –
Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.
– Thomas Hooker –
We never test the resources of God until we attempt the
IMPOSSIBLE.
– FB Meyer –
I have found that there are three stages in every great work of
God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.
– Hudson Taylor –