17 Nov
Men come and go; leaders, teachers, thinkers speak and work for a season, and then fall silent and impotent. He abides. They die, but He lives. They are lights kindled, and, therefore, sooner or later quenched; but He is the true light from which they draw all their brightness, and He shines for evermore.
- Alexander MacLaren -
16 Nov
We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.
- J. I. Packer -
9 Nov
The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
-John Bunyan -
3 Oct
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 -
2 Oct
When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive. Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless or that He will bless, but that He does bless, here and now. Trust always operates in the present tense. Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses. Trust receives what prayer acquires. So, what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.
- E. M. Bounds -
7 Jun
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 -
Tags: John Piper, fasting, Desiring God, quote
18 May
The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.
- William Booth -
18 May
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 -
Tags: law of God, gospel, Samuel Bolton, Christian, quotes
24 Apr
Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
- Anonymous -
5 Mar
More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers…it was commitment that thinned the ranks.
- Chuck Swindoll -
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