Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.
– Andrew Murray –
Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord.
– Walter Cradock –
If Jesus Christ is in a person’s heart, He will be revealed in the person’s life.
– Andrew Murray –
Nothing so clearly discovers a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.
– Augustine –
Every area of your life, in which you have not learned to be dependent, is an area of your life in which you have not as yet repented.
– Ian Thomas –
We spend our years with sighing; it is a valley of tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.
– Thomas Watson –
A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
– CS Lewis –
There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is to simply try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of Divine grace. Thus even the adversary becomes an auxiliary, and the things that seem to be against us turn out to be for the furtherance of our way. Surely, this is to be more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
– AB Simpson –