Gifts are improved in us by prayer and study, but the benefits of those gifts are shared among us by love and unity.
– John Flavel –
1627-1691
Bill Ury quote
Word and Spirit – Andrew Murray
If you would have the divine life of the Spirit within you grow strong in every part of your nature, let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.
– Andrew Murray –
from The Indwelling Spirit
Don’t be idle – Thomas Brooks
Standing pools gather mud, and nourish and breed venomous creatures; and so do the idle and slothful Christians.
– Thomas Brooks –
from Smooth Stones taken from Ancient Brooks
No sacrifice too great – CT Studd
If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
– CT Studd –
Praying for others – Samuel Rutherford
I have benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
– Samuel Rutherford –
What we need – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
We need less traveling by jet planes from congress to congress … but more kneeling and praying and pleading to God to have mercy upon us, more crying to God to arise and scatter his enemies and make himself known.
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones –
Intercession – Oswald Chambers
Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.
– Oswald Chambers –
The explanation of faith – Thomas Aquinas
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
– Thomas Aquinas –
One act of obedience – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –