The most foolish person in the world is the one who has the opportunity to read, absorb, digest, live in, be immersed in worship-reading the Bible, but doesn’t do it because of PREOCCUPATION with other things of this world.
– Rex B. Andrews –
Worship
February 13, 2013
I would walk through mud up to my knees to get to a group where nobody was showing off, where only God was present. The Early Church prayed – talked to God. When they sang, they talked to God and sang about God. Today we have programming, that awful, hateful word ‘programming’; but God is absent.
– AW Tozer –
January 8, 2013
How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose! … YOU drove them from me, YOU Who are the True, the Sovereign Joy drove them from me and took their place! … O Lord, my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation!
– St. Augustine –
January 6, 2013
If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
– CT Studd –
December 17, 2012
O, how precious is Christ! How can it be that I have thought so little of him…
– Charles Spurgeon –
December 11, 2012
God’s sacred intent for you and for me is nothing short of absolute abandonment to Jesus, entire separation from the pollution of the world, and ardent worship of our King with every breath we take.
– Leslie Ludy –
December 10, 2012
Soli Deo Gloria
To God ALONE be the glory!
December 1, 2012
Let me seek Thee in longing, let me long for Thee in seeking; let me find Thee in love, and love Thee in finding.
– Anselm of Canterbury –
November 13, 2012
It has been shown that the primary limitation imposed upon you as man, in order that you may be in the likeness of your Maker and bear the image of the invisible, is that of total dependence upon God – in that your behavior, to be godly, must derive directly and exclusively from God’s activity in you and through you. Any activity, therefore, in which you may engage, no matter how nobly conceived, which does not stem from this humble attitude of dependence upon God, violates the basic principles of your true humanity and the role for which you were created. By independence (or the absence of faith), you eliminate God, the source of your own “godliness.” But only God has the right to be the source of His own godliness, so that however unwittingly, you are acting as your own god!
You will still believe or pretend that you are worshiping God; but as the object of your imitation, even Christ Himself may only be an excuse for worshiping your own ability to imitate – an ability vested in yourself. And this is the basis of all self-righteousness!
It is startling to discover that even God may be used as an excuse for worshiping yourself, demonstrating again the satanic genius for distorting truth and deceiving man – for it was to this temptation that Adam and Eve fell in the Garden!
– Ian Thomas –
The Mystery of Godliness, p187