A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian.
– DL Moody –
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Built as a palace – CS Lewis
You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.
– CS Lewis –
Take Christ – Thomas Aquinas
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
– Thomas Aquinas –
Embrace, don’t drag, the cross – Teresa of Avila
The lukewarm do not embrace the cross; they merely drag it along.
– Teresa of Avila –
Love and truth – John Stott
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
– John Stott –
Followers follow – Scott McKnight
Those who aren’t following Jesus aren’t his followers … Followers follow, and those who don’t follow aren’t followers.
– Scott McKnight –
Praying with eyes on God – Oswald Chambers
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
– Oswald Chambers –
God uses weak men – Hudson Taylor
God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.
– Hudson Taylor –
When I can do nothing else, I trust – Hudson Taylor
When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.
– Hudson Taylor –