October 1, 2005
"Stand still" - keep the posture of an upright man, ready for action, expecting further orders, cheerfully and patiently awaiting the directing voice; and it will not be long ere God shall say to you, as distinctly as Moses said it to the people of Israel, "Go forward."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Spurgeon Archive
October 2, 2005
Knowing God is more than knowing about Him; it is a matter of dealing with Him as He opens up to you, and being dealt with by Him as He takes knowledge of you. Knowing about Him is a necessary precondition of trusting in Him, but the width of our knowledge about Him is no gauge of our knowledge of Him.
James I (J. I.) Packer
Brief Online Interview
October 3, 2005
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Thomas Aquinas
October 4, 2005
Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.
Billy Sunday
Brief Biography
October 5, 2005
We must not be fainthearted because we are consciously poor instruments. The main question is in the mastery of Him who uses the instruments.
Mrs. Charles Cowman
Streams In The Desert
October 6, 2005
You can no more blame your circumstances for your character than you can blame the mirror for the way you look.
Anonymous
October 7, 2005
If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.
Charles (Chuck) Colson
Breakpoint
October 8, 2005
Christ said we could move mountains if we had faith. But He didn't say we wouldn't need a shovel.
Joyce Vollmer Brown
October 9, 2005
You have to live with Him day by day, and year by year, and to learn to know Him as we learn to know husbands and wives, by continual experience of a sweet and unfailing love, by many a sacred hour of interchange of affection and reception of gifts and counsels.
Alexander MacLaren
Biography and Online Library
October 10, 2005
In India an ox with blindfolded eyes goes round an oil-press all the day long. When his eyes are unbandaged in the evening he finds that he has been going round and round in a circle and that although he has succeeded in producing some oil he has gone no further. Although the philosophers have been at it for hundreds of years, they have not reached their goal. Now and then, after much labour they have produced a little oil, which they have left behind them, but it is not sufficient to meet the sore need of mankind.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
Short Biography
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October 11, 2005
God will not lose heart! From creation to now, God has never given up on his stubborn, rebellious children and He never will. He is constantly loving, constantly caring, constantly creating ways to remind us that He is there and He is aware, achingly aware of our hearts and our desperate need for Him. He sent His Son, a sign of his utter, total, reckless heart of love that would do anything to woo us back into His arms.
Katherine Walden
I Lift My Eyes Web Ministries
October 12, 2005
Let your only evaluation of worth derive from the awareness of God's love for you. All other measures leave one in a state of delusion.
Anonymous
October 13-14, 2005
Remember that your brethren and sisters in Christ, with whom you find so much fault, are God's elect. And if He chose them, why do you reject them? They are bought with Christ's blood, and if He thought them worth so much, why do you think so little of them? Recollect, too, that with all their badness there are some good points in them in which they excel you. They do not know so much, but perhaps they act better than you. It may be that they are more faulty in pride, but perhaps they excel you in generosity. Or if perhaps one man is a little quick in temper, yet he is more zealous than you. Look at the bright side of your brother, and the black side of yourself, instead of reversing the order as many do. The drift of this lesson is this; as your heavenly Father has pity on you, have pity on one another. Jesus, the Compassionate One, covers our sins with the mantle of His love! Be as tender towards those who sin as the Master was. He remembers that we are dust; remember this of others. I will not find fault with you, my friend, if I can help it, because you will be one day without fault before the throne of God! If God will so soon remove your faults, why should I take note of them?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Spurgeon Archive
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October 15, 2005
Zeal without knowledge is like a mettled horse without eyes, or like a sword in a madman's hand; and there is no knowledge where there is not the word: for if they reject the word of the Lord, and act not by that, 'what wisdom is in them?' saith the prophet (Jer 8:9; Isa 8:20).
John Bunyan
Online Library
October 16, 2005
Satan has access to the domain of darkness, but he can only occupy those areas where mankind, through sin, has allowed him.
Francis Frangipane
Ministries of Francis Frangipane
October 17, 2005
Scripture calls us to pray for many things: for all saints; for all men; for kings and all rulers; for all who are in adversity; for the sending forth of labourers; for those who labour in the gospel; for all converts; for believers who have fallen into sin; for one another in our immediate circles.
Andrew Murray
Biography and Works
October 18, 2005
In all His dispensations God is at work for our good. In prosperity He tries our gratitude; in mediocrity, our contentment; in misfortune, our submission; in darkness, our faith; under temptation, our steadfastness; and at all times, our obedience and trust in Him.
Anonymous
October 19, 2005
Dear God, Help my unbelief. When I'm in pain, I forget that you care about me. I forget that you have helped me through my trials. I forget that you hold me in your arms to keep me safe. I forget that you are feeling my pain with me. I forget that you love me, I forget that I am important to you. Show me your presence - let me feel your enveloping love. Heal my hurting soul. Thank you for staying with me even in my unbelief.
Timothy Dailey
October 20, 2005
To look back upon the progress of the divine kingdom upon earth is to review revival periods which have come like refreshing showers upon dry and thirsty ground, making the desert to blossom as the rose, and bringing new eras of spiritual life and activity just when the Church had fallen under the influence of the apathy of the times, and needed to be aroused to a new sense of her duty and responsibility.... Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
Public Domain Texts
October 21, 2005
Don't worry about what you do not understand... Worry about what you do understand in the Bible but do not live by.
Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie Ten Boom Museum
October 22, 2005
Leave the broken, irreversible past in God's hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.
Oswald Chambers
My Utmost for His Highest
October 23, 2005
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
Into The Wardrobe
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October 24, 2005
What can be more unkind than to communicate our low spirits to others, to go about the world like demons, poisoning the fountains of joy? Have I more light because I have managed to involve those I love in the same gloom as myself? Is it not pleasant to see the sun shining on the mountains, even though we have one of it down in our valley? Oh, the littleness and the meanness of that sickly appetite for sympathy, which will not let us keep our sorrows to ourselves! Let us hide our pains and sorrows. But, while we hide them, let them also be spurs within us to urge us on to all manner of overflowing kindness and sunny humour to those around us. When the very darkness within us creates a sunshine around us, then has the spirit of Jesus taken possession of our souls.
Frederick W. Faber
Biography
October 25, 2005
It is in worship, that through song, prayer, and preaching, our theology is formed, our discipleship encouraged, and our spirits nourished. It is in worship that we reach out to touch the hem of Christ's garment and find that, instead of touching the hem, we are being offered the grace of God by word of mouth and gift of hand.
John Bell
October 26, 2005
Pray temperately and simply. Prayer is a heart-to-heart talk between yourself and God and needs no brilliant ideas, no flood of words.
Anonymous
October 27, 2005
If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy Carmichael
Biography and Bibliography
October 28, 2005
Many, who often hear the gospel of Christ, are yet but little affected, because they are void of the Spirit of Christ. But whosoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavour to make all his life like in its beauty unto His. What will it avail thee to dispute profoundly of the Trinity, if thou be void of humility, and art thereby displeasing to the Trinity?.... If thou didst know the whole Bible by heart, and the sayings of all the philosophers, what would all that profit thee without the love of God and without grace.
Thomas a Kempis
Biography and Works
October 29, 2005
A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees."
Arthur Tappan (A. T.) Pierson
Online Library
October 30, 2005
We do not go to church to worship, but, already at worship, we join our brothers and sisters in continuing those actions that should have been going on-privately, familially, or even corporately - all week long.
Harold Best
Home Page
October 31, 2005
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
Peter Marshall
Spiritual Portrait
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