The trouble with most Christians today is that they would rather be on the judgment seat than on the witness stand.
Anonymous
February 2, 2005
I do not think that we should look upon...painful experiences too pessimistically. Surely they are more profitable than we think at the time we are going through the anguish connected with them. But if they are to be of any benefit to us, we must, in the first place, be truthful and not begin to practice deception, that is, excuse and defend our slovenly prayer life. We must admit our weakness in prayer, admit that we are faced with a problem which cannot be solved by our own efforts.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
Brief Biography
February 3, 2005
If... a doubt should at any time arise in your mind concerning what you are going to expend, either on yourself or any part of your family, you have an easy way to remove it. Calmly and seriously inquire,
1. In expending this, am I acting according to my character? Am I acting herein, not as a proprietor, but as a steward of my Lord's goods?
2. Am I doing this in obedience to his Word? In what Scripture does he require me so to do?
3. Can I offer up this action, this expense, as a sacrifice to God through Jesus Christ?
You will seldom need anything more to remove any doubt which arises on this head; but by this consideration you will receive clear light as to the way wherein you should go.
John Wesley
Wesley Centre
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February 4, 2005
I do not preach any new truth. I do not have any new doctrine.... We must have a revival that will mean purity of heart as a normal standard for everybody. We must be clean people, and not only clean outside.
A. W. Tozer
The Works of A. W. Tozer
February 5, 2005
If all you have found [in Christianity] is advantage, whether it is fun or profit or security, then you haven't started following Him yet. His way is the way of the Cross. The world can be very hard on those it hates. If it is not hard on you, perhaps it sees nothing in you to hate. But then it doesn't see Jesus in you, for it hates Jesus with an undying hatred. While your way is still all fun, all easy, all jolly, it is only your way: when you turn from it to follow His way, it will cost. It may cost you everything you have. That is what it cost Him.
Robert MacColl Adams
February 6, 2005
The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image. Not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Saviour. Not to fill your head with a collection of biblical facts but to transform your life.
Howard G. Hendricks
Brief Biography
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February 7, 2005
God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.
Frederick Brotherton ( F. B. ) Meyer
Online Works
February 8, 2005
He who breathes into our hearts the heavenly hope, will not deceive or fail us when we press forward to its realization.
Anonymous
February 9, 2005
Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment. Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.
Charles H. Brent
Brief Biography
February 10, 2005
We have received too much from God to allow ourselves opportunities for unbelief. We have received too many gifts and privileges to allow a grumbling, murmuring heart to disqualify us of our destiny. In contrast, the thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress.
Francis Frangipane
Ministries of Francis Frangipane
February 11, 2005
What then? Some one will say. We have been beguiled and are lost. Is there no salvation left? We have fallen: Is it not possible to rise again? We have been blinded: May we not recover our sight? We have become crippled: Can we never walk upright? In a word, we are dead: May we not rise again? He that woke Lazarus who was four days dead and already stank, shall He not, O man, much more easily raise thee who art alive? He who shed his precious Blood for us, shall Himself deliver us from sin. Let us not despair of ourselves, brethren; let us not abandon ourselves to a hopeless condition. For it is a fearful thing not to believe in a hope of repentance.
Cyril
February 12, 2005
The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence, but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God, and bear the cost.
Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn Underhill Association
February 13, 2005
God is not a power or principle or law, but he is a living, creating, communicating person - a mind who thinks, a heart who feels, a will who acts, whose best name is Father.
Robert Hamill
February 14, 2005
I ask you, Lord Jesus,
To develop in me, your lover,
An immeasurable urge toward you,
An affection that is unbounded,
A longing that is unrestrained,
A fervour that throws discretion to the winds!
The more worthwhile our love for you,
All the more pressing does it become
Reason cannot hold it in check,
Fear does not make it tremble,
Wise judgment does not temper it.
Richard Rolle
Website
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Paulette Rolle-Alesnik February 15, 2005
When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
Anonymous
February 16, 2005
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Augustine
Works and Biography
February 17, 2005
Moses, after being forty days in the mount with God, shone with the same kind of light as the disciples saw in their Master on the Holy Mount; and there is a spiritual beauty bestowed in some degree on all God's saints who pray much which is of the same nature and is the most precious of all answers to prayer. Character flows from the well-spring of prayer.
James Stalker
Writings
February 18, 2005
Children do not find it difficult or complicated to talk to their parents, nor do they feel embarrassed to bring the simplest need to their attention. Neither should we hesitate to bring the simplest requests confidently to the Father.
Richard J. Foster
Brief Biography and List of Works
February 19, 2005
Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.
John Owen
Biography-Website
February 20, 2005
A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
Into The Wardrobe
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February 21, 2005
I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.
Max Lucado
Upwords
February 22, 2005
Men sometimes object to the doctrine of the depravity of mankind. But the strongest teachings of the Bible and of the pulpit are more than confirmed by their own actions - by the conduct of the world itself. Every bolt and bar, and lock and key, every receipt, and check, and note of hand, every law book and court of justice, every chain, and dungeon, and gallows, proclaim that the world is a fallen world, and that our race is a depraved and sinful race.
Anonymous
February 23, 2005
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
Dallas Willard
February 24, 2005
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher
Archives
February 25, 2005
The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
Public Domain Texts
February 26, 2005
But forgiveness is not an emotion... Forgiveness is an act of will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie Ten Boom Museum
February 27, 2005
Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.
Jim Elliot
Brief Biography
February 28, 2005
Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
Billy Graham
Billy Graham Organization
January 2005 / March 2005
