How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.
- George Macdonald -
John Piper on Fasting
Do you have a hunger for God? If we don’t feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because we have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because we have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Our soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. If we are full of what the world offers, then perhaps a fast might express, or even increase, our soul’s appetite for God. Between the dangers of self-denial and self-indulgence is the path of pleasant pain called fasting.
- John Piper -
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Commitment to the Cause
More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers…it was commitment that thinned the ranks.
- Chuck Swindoll -
The Law and Justification
The law sends us to the gospel, that we may be justified, and the gospel sends us to the law again to enquire what is our duty, being justified.
- Samuel Bolton -
Dying to Ourselves
If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, and he that does not live to God, is dead.
- George MacDonald -
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Be rid of our Comforts
Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it; so that we find the readiest course to be rid of our comforts is to set our hearts inordinately upon them.
- John Flavel -
A Rare Person Indeed
Modern mankind can go anywhere, do everything and be completely curious about the universe. But only a rare person now and then is curious enough to want to know God.
- A.W. Tozer -
The Way To Be In The World
I ponder my experience and I recognise once more that the way for us to be in the world is to focus on the spiritual life.
- Henri Nouwen -
The Spirit of God and the Spirit of the World
The heart of man is narrow, and cannot contain both loves. The world draws dowin the heart from God; and so the more the love of the world prevails the more the love of God dwindles and decays…The Spirit of God in true Christians is opposed to the spirit of the world.
- Matthew Henry -
We Sojourn in a Strange Land
“Let us remember, that whilst we are in this world, we sojourn in a strange land, and are at a distance from our home; and, therefore, do not let us be inordinately affected with anything in it.”
- Philip Doddridge -
