Quote Collection
Joy of the Lord – Matthew Henry
The joy of the LORD will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies and put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.
– Matthew Henry –
Great things through grief – Randy Alcorn
I am asking Jesus to bring great things into my life through my grief.
– Randy Alcorn –
Entering the Kingdom through tribulation – Dr. JH Jewett
We are not “born again” into soft and protected nurseries, but in the open country where we suck strength from the very terror of the tempest. We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
– Dr. JH Jewett –
Prayer and sin can’t coexist – JC Ryle
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
– JC Ryle –
Will you trust God in this? – Elisabeth Elliot
In every experience of life, the Lord is standing at the door and knocking and saying “Will you trust Me in this?”
– Elisabeth Elliot –
We are far too easily pleased – CS Lewis
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and seek and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot image what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
– CS Lewis –
The book of my life – NT Wright
The Bible is the book of my life. It’s the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.
– NT Wright –
The soil of awed adoration – JI Packer
The life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration.
– JI Packer –
Joy of the Lord – J. Vernon McGee
May all the joy that the Lord has provided for His own be experienced by you and yours this season and until we see Him face to face.
– J. Vernon McGee –