Turn your soul’s vision to Jesus, and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him.
– Lilias Trotter –
(note: this is the quote that inspired the song “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus”)
My life is but a weaving
Between my God and me.
I cannot choose the colors
He weaveth steadily.
Oft’ times He weaveth sorrow;
And I in foolish pride
Forget He sees the upper
And I the underside.
Not ’til the loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly
Will God unroll the canvas
And reveal the reason why.
The dark threads are as needful
In the weaver’s skillful hand
As the threads of gold and silver
In the pattern He has planned
He knows, He loves, He cares;
Nothing this truth can dim.
He gives the very best to those
Who leave the choice to Him.
– Author Unknown –
often quoted by Corrie ten Boom
I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking God to do His work though me.
– Hudson Taylor –
You might as well expect to raise the dead by whispering in their ears, as hope to save souls by preaching to them, if it were not for the agency of the Spirit.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength.
– Corrie ten Boom –
The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost, and things will get no better till we get back to His realized presence and power.
– Samuel Chadwick –
If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!
– DL Moody –
God nowhere asks anyone to have a large church. He only calls us to do his work, proclaiming his Word to people he loves under anointing power of the Holy Spirit to produce results that only he can bring about.
– Jim Cymbala –
The wonder of the grace of God is that God can take an unholy man out of a unholy world — and make that man holy — and put him back into a unholy world, and keep him holy!
– Leonard Ravenhill –
