May 1, 2004
You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Online Information
May 2, 2004
A rattlesnake, if cornered, will sometimes become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harbouring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself. We think that we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.
Eli E. Stanley
Biography
May 3, 2004
Every Christian has a very personal responsibility to grow in their faith. Yet there are times when we seem to stand still. That is when God touches us like the earth in the springtime, bringing new growth and warmth for the faithful souls dedicated to His service.
Ed Price
The Loving Heart
May 4, 2004
If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Online Books
May 5, 2004
Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.
Blaise Pascal
Biography
May 6, 2004
Cultivate a thankful spirit! It will be to thee a perpetual feast. There is, or ought to be, with us no such thing as small mercies; all are great, because the least are undeserved. Indeed a really thankful heart will extract motive for gratitude from everything, making the most even of scanty blessings.
J. R. MacDuff
May 7, 2004
The spirit of prayer is a pressing forth of the soul out of this earthly life, it is a stretching with all its desire after the life of God, it is a leaving, as far as it can, all its own spirit, to receive a spirit from above, to be one life, one love, one spirit with Christ in God. For the love which God bears to the soul, His eternal, never-ceasing desire to enter into it, and to dwell in it, stays no longer than till the door of the heart opens for Him. For nothing does, or can keep God out of the soul, or hinder His holy union with it, but the desire of the heart turned from Him.
William Law
Biography and Works
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A Serious Call To A Devout And Holy Life By William Law Originally published at the beginning of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, a time when rational criticism of religious belief was perhaps at its peak. William Law's A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life succeeded in inspiring the most cynical men of the age with its arguments in favour of a spiritual life. More than simply a set of rules to live by, Law's book examines what it means to lead a Christian life and criticizes the perversion of Christian tenets by establishments - whether secular or spiritual - whose real aim is temporal power. With a preface by the Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr., pastor emeritus of New York's Riverside Church, whose engagement in social causes continues to find inspiration in Law's argument, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life is a book that can still speak to our time. More William Law Books |
May 8, 2004
Our sense of the grace of God, of our neediness in the face of His omnipotent love, is a true barometer of genuine spirituality and biblical worship.
Timothy George
Biography
May 9, 2004
This book contains the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the doom of sinners and the happiness of believers. Its doctrines are holy, its precepts are binding, its histories are true, and its decisions are immutable. Read it to be wise, believe it to be safe, and practice it to be holy. It contains light to direct you, food to support you, and comfort to cheer you. It is the travelers map, the pilgrims staff, the pilots compass, the soldiers sword, and the Christians character. Here paradise is restored, Heaven opened, and the gates of hell disclosed. Christ is its grand object, our good is its design, and the glory of God its end. It should fill the memory, rule the heart, and guide the feet. Read it slowly, frequently, and prayerfully. It is given you in life and will be opened in the judgment and will be remembered forever. It involves the highest responsibility, will reward the greatest labour, and will condemn all who trifle with its sacred contents.
Anonymous
May 10, 2004
The devil's snare does not catch you, unless you are first caught by the devil's bait.
Ambrose
Biography
May 11, 2004
What 'one thing', what person, what position, what passion immediately comes to mind when you hear this question? "What one thing would you say to God.. Oh Lord, I will give you anything, I will do anything for you, I will go anywhere, I will give away anything... but that?" The answer to that question is the 'one thing' you need to give to the Lord, more than anything else. Often, when we surrender such a deep sense of ownership to the Lord, He in his loving grace will allow us to have that 'one thing' again, with the caution to remember we are only stewards of that 'one thing.' Oftentimes, He, in his wisdom, does not allow us to have that 'one thing' back. It is a step of submission and obedience; and a risk that is vitally important for the sake of our spiritual growth. God said. "You shall have no other gods before me." Ex 20:3
Katherine Walden
I Lift My Eyes Web Ministries
May 12, 2004
The whole Christian life is a life in which the further a person progresses, the more he has to depend directly on God...The more we progress, the less we are self-sufficient. The more we progress, the poorer we get so that the man who has progressed most, is totally poor - he has to depend directly on God. He's got nothing left in himself.
Thomas Merton
Website.
May 13, 2004
To believe that He will preserve us is, indeed, a means of preservation. God will certainly preserve us, and make a way of escape for us out of the temptation, should we fall. We are to pray for what God has already promised. Our requests are to be regulated by His promises and commands. Faith embraces the promises and so finds relief.
John Owen
Biography-Website
Mat 14, 2004
Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kind, equable man may turn bitter and crotchety: a man of good-will may grow cynical and callous. But nothing of this sort happens to the Creator. He never becomes less truthful, or merciful, or just, or good, than He used to be. The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.
James I (J. I.) Packer
Brief Online Interview
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May 15, 2004
Count your gains instead of your losses,
Count your joys instead of your woes,
Count your friends instead of your foes,
Count your courage instead of your fears,
Count your health instead of your wealth,
Count on God instead of yourself.
Anonymous
May 16, 2004
Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.
Thomas a Kempis
Biography and Works
May 17, 2004
When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter... then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor.
Thomas Kinkade
Website
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May 18, 2004
Christ's life outwardly was one of the most troubled lives that was ever lived: tempest and tumult, tumult and tempest, the waves breaking over it all the time. But the inner life was a sea of glass. The great calm was always there.
Henry Drummond
Website
May 19, 2004
Perfection does not consist in the knowledge of God's order, but in submission to it. The order of God, the good pleasure of God, the will of God, the action of God, grace -- all these are one and the same thing in this life. Perfection is nothing else than the faithful cooperation of the soul with the work of God. This ultimate purpose of our life grows and increases in our souls secretly and without our knowledge.
Jean-Pierre de Caussade
Online Works
May 20, 2004
We must fear and love God, so that we will not use His name to curse, swear, cast a spell, lie or deceive, but will use it to call upon Him, pray to Him, praise Him and thank Him in all times of trouble.
Martin Luther
Biography and Information
May 21, 2004
God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness.
Bruce Wilkinson
Website
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Victory Over Depression: How to Live Above Your Circumstances By Bob George "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade," goes the old saying. Now George gives you a biblical recipe to help you conquer life's disappointments! In this updated edition of Living Above Your Circumstances, you'll discover how to live victoriously and experience the freedom that comes through dependence on Christ alone. Includes a new study section. 200 pages, softcover from Harvest. |
True godliness leaves the world, convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the only explanation for you, is Jesus Christ, to whose eternally unchanging and altogether adequate "I AM!" your heart has learned to say with unshatterable faith, "Thou art!"
W. Ian Thomas
Excerpts from the writings of Major W. Ian Thomas
May 23, 2003
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
Peter Marshall
Spiritual Portrait
March 24, 2004
It doesn't matter, really, how great the pressure is; it only matters where the pressure lies. See that it never comes between you and the Lord - then the greater the pressure, the more it presses you to His breast.
Anonymous
March 25, 2004
Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee.
Augustine
Works and Biography
May 26, 2004
Who decides what is right and wrong In the world? Who has the authority to define morality for all of creation? It is not the courts, congress, the media, public opinion, the "politically correct" police, the "tolerance" brigade or even the church. The only answer has been, is and always will be Jesus Christ. You can find His opinion on a great variety of subjects in His best seller... The Bible.
Jeffrey E. Ramey
May 27, 2004
But, you object, a heart like mine can offer Christ so little - at best, so poor and pinched and stingy a hospitality and such meagre fare; for I have nothing worthy of Him to set before Him, only a kind of affection, real enough at times, but which, at others, can and does so easily forget; only a will, quite unreliable, deplorably unstable; only a faith that is the merest shadow of what His real friends mean when they speak about faith, I know. But, there was once a garret up under the roof, a poor, bare place enough. There was a table in it, and there were some benches, and a water-pot; a towel, and a basin in behind the door, but not much else - a bare, unhomelike room. But the Lord Christ entered into it. And, from that moment, it became the holiest of all, where souls innumerable ever since have met the Lord God, in High glory, face to face. And, if you give Him entrance to that very ordinary heart of yours, it too He will transform and sanctify and touch with a splendour of glory.
Arthur John (A. J.) Gossip
Online Article.
May 28, 2004
Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual things then it is sin for you, however, innocent it may be in itself.
Susanna Wesley
Biography
May 29, 2004
The Church that does not evangelize will fossilize.
Oswald J. Smith
Biography
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The Revival We Need By Oswald J. Smith This is a reprinted edition of the 1925 book by Oswald J. Smith. It is one of the classic books on Christian Revival written in the last century. Many famous Christians, including Billy Graham, have read and adore this book. Graham says "As this book goes forth, it is our earnest prayer that others, too, might catch this burden, vision, and flaming passion." |
May 30, 2004
Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.
Thomas Fuller
Short Biography
May 31, 2004
I have to get to the point of the absolute and unquestionable relationship that takes everything exactly as it comes from Him. God never guides us at some time in the future, but always here and now. Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.
Oswald Chambers
My Utmost for His Highest
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