October 1, 2003
In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.
Dorothy Sayer
October 2, 2003
Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents: for, I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.
Samuel Rutherford
Selected Letters
October 3, 2003
If when an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy Carmichael
Biography and Bibliography
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October 4, 2003
The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor. Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord, just being satisfied with Him and nothing else, immediately you scent the fragrance. There is a savor of the Lord. Something has been crushed, something has been broken, and there is a resulting odor of sweetness.
Watchman Nee
Website
October 5, 2003
God intervenes in the affairs of men by invitation only.
Anonymous
October 6, 2003
You will not stroll into Christlikeness with your hands in your pockets, shoving the door open with a careless shoulder. This is no hobby for one's leisure moments, taken up at intervals when we have nothing much to do, and put down and forgotten when our life grows full and interesting... It takes all one's strength, and all one's heart, and all one's mind, and all one's soul, given freely and recklessly and without restraint. (continued tomorrow)
Arthur John (A. J.) Gossip
Online Article.
October 7, 2003
(continued from yesterday) This is a business for adventurous spirits; others would shrink out of it. And so Christ had a way of pulling up would-be recruits with sobering and disconcerting questions, of meeting applicants - breathless and panting in their eagerness - by asking them if they really thought they had the grit, the stamina, the gallantry, required. For many, He explained, begin, but quickly become cowed, and slink away, leaving a thing unfinished as a pathetic monument of their own lack of courage and of staying power.
Arthur John (A. J.) Gossip
Online Article.
October 8, 2003
We forget that God sometimes has to say No. We pray to Him as our heavenly Father, and like wise human fathers, He often says, No, not from whim or caprice, but from wisdom and from love, and knowing what is best for us.
Peter Marshall
Spiritual Portrait
October 9, 2003
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
Thomas a Kempis
Biography and Works
October 10, 2003
I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me.
Max Lucado
Upwords
October 11, 2003
People are prepared for everything except for the fact that beyond the darkness of their blindness there is a great light. They are prepared to go on breaking their backs plowing the same old field until the cows come home without seeing, until they stub their toes on it, that there is a treasure buried in that field rich enough to buy Texas. They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb.
Frederick Buechner
Unofficial Website
More Frederick Buechner Materials
October 12, 2003
My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great.
John Wesley
Wesley Center
October 13, 2003
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
Augustine
Works and Biography
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The Confessions of Saint Augustine By Saint Augustine Written in the waning days of the Roman era, Augustine's Confessions are the moving diary of a soul's journey. From his earliest memories of childhood, through his turbulent and licentious youth, to his resolute conversion at the age of 32, Augustine traces a pilgrimage of unbounded grace. Throughout, he passionately addresses the spiritual questions that have engaged thoughtful minds since time began. |
October 14, 2003
Satan dupes his victims. He stalks through the land, dabbing the pleasure of sin with a delusive sweetness, and soon after his victims, intoxicated with the poisoned draught and hardened by the deceitfulness of sin, lose all consciousness of their terrible danger.
Anonymous
October 15, 2003
Nothing can separate you from God's love, absolutely nothing. God is enough for time, God is enough for eternity. God is enough!
Hannah Whitall Smith
Online Books
October 16, 2003
Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with Him who alone can deliver us from solitude.
Georges Lefevre
October 17, 2003
Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony.
John R. W. Stott
John Stott Ministries
October 18, 2003
What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little and those who are eminently holy pray much.
James Charles J. C. Ryle
Biography and Works
October 19, 2003
Everybody worships. Whether if is a hero, possessions, success, pleasure, a political cause, a carved idol or oneself, the way we live and behave makes evident the things we love and give ourselves to. It is in our very nature to worship, and that inner drive is God-given; the disaster is that as part of a fallen race, we have replaced the object of our worship. To be converted to faith in Jesus Christ is to return to the worship of the true God, and to dethrone all rivals to his authority.
Graham Kendrick
Website
October 20, 2003
We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)
Billy Graham
Billy Graham Organization
October 21, 2003
If we are not interested in the Word of God, can we really be interested in God?
Robert Godfrey
Online Article
October 22, 2003
We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength... waiting for the endless good which God is always giving as fast as He can get us to take it in.
George Macdonald
The Golden Key Website
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Diary of an Old Soul By George MacDonald In this new edition of a popular classic, George MacDonald offers a prayer for each day of the year, reflecting on some aspect of God's relationship with us. These simple but deep prayers continue to reveal new meanings after many readings. About the author: George MacDonald (1824-1905)was a Scottish novelist, poet, and Christian writer. |
October 23, 2003
First daughter to the love of God is charity to man.
Drennan
October 24, 2003
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God.
Brother Lawrence
Biography and Works
October 25, 2003
If we must judge, let us first use the mirror on our own wall for practice.
Anonymous
October 26, 2003
But you have to pray. You have to listen to the voice who calls you the beloved, because otherwise you will run around begging for affirmation, for praise, for success. And then you're not free.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Nouwen Centre
October 27, 2003
I believe there is nothing lovelier, deeper, more sympathetic, and more perfect than the Savior; there is in the world only one figure of absolute beauty: Christ.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
October 28, 2003
Fasting, if we conceive of it truly, must not... be confined to the question of food and drink; fasting should really be made to include abstinence from anything which is legitimate in and of itself for the sake of some special spiritual purpose. There are many bodily functions which are right and normal and perfectly legitimate, but which for special peculiar reasons in certain circumstances should be controlled. That is fasting.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Martyn Lloyd-Jones Website
October 29, 2003
Buffeted, knocked down but never knocked out, cast down but never in despair, persecuted but never forsaken, because - praise the Lord! - you have found the answer to what it takes to stand in the ministry you have received: a clear view of Jesus, in contemplation; in reflection of His glory in the midst of the battle; and then being made like unto Him as day by day your heart is lifted up to the Lord Jesus and He imparts to your life the sweetness and loveliness or His character.
Alan Redpath
Brief Biography And Bibliography
October 30, 2003
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn, and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
Into The Wardrobe
October 31, 2003
The will of God for your life is simply that you submit yourself to Him each day and say, "Father, Your will for today is mine. Your pleasure for today is mine. Your work for today is mine. I trust You to be God. You lead me today and I will follow."
Kay Arthur
September 2003 / November 2003 /
