July 1, 2004
Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go out to the utmost sin in that kind. Every unclean thought or glance would be adultery if it could, every thought of unbelief would be atheism if allowed to develop. Every rise of lust, if it has its way reaches the height of villainy; it is like the grave that is never satisfied. The deceitfulness of sin is seen in that it is modest in its first proposals but when it prevails it hardens mens' hearts, and brings them to ruin.
John Owen
Biography-Website
July 2, 2004
God never alters the robe of righteousness to fit the men, but the men to fit the robe.
Anonymous
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July 3, 2004
How do you approach the thirst of Jesus? Only one secret - the closer you come to Jesus, the better you will know His thirst. Jesus thirsts even now, in your heart and in the poor - He knows your weakness, He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you.
Mother Teresa
Informational Website
July 4, 2004
There is a vast difference in the point of view from which circumstances are regarded. If they come between us and God they may hide God from us; if He comes between us and them, He may hide them from us, or even impart to them, when in themselves alone, they are dark and sad, a lustre and a glory. When the moon comes directly between the earth and the sun it may totally eclipse the orb of day; but when the earth and sun are in another relative position, the moon is at the full, and becomes not an obscurer but a reflector of the sun's light.
Arthur Tappan (A. T.) Pierson
Online Library
July 5, 2004
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must accept it. The only choice is how.
Henry Ward Beecher
Archives
July 6, 2004
The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priest hood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer.
John R. Mott
Biography
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Temptations Women Face: Honest Talk About Jealousy, Anger, Sex, Money, Food, Pride By Mary Ellen Ashcroft Mary Ellen Ashcroft knows about the confusing thoughts and feelings that women experience. In this book she writes about where the needs and motivations of women come from, what temptations hook into these needs, and how women can get beyond them. Ashcroft maintains that we should look honestly at our temptations and ask what they tell us about ourselves. She believes God's intention is not simply that we flee temptation, but that we be fully redeemed. This book shows the way through each temptation and how women can day by day begin to build a life pleasing to God. |
July 7, 2004
It is said that one of the early church fathers, seeing a woman of loose morals arrayed in rich apparel, was moved to tears and confessed that he had never taken such pains to adorn his soul with faith and godliness as she had taken to adorn her body to please the world.
A Naismith
July 8, 2004
Many of us treat church life like immature adolescents. From other Christians we want thrills, constant exhilaration and to have our needs met. When Christian brothers and sisters fall short of our expectations, when they are boring and imperfect and fail to meet our needs for strokes, we pout, turn away and isolate ourselves from them. Jesus calls us to mature commitment of love for his people - the very people in our fellowship!
John Wimber
July 9, 2004
It is not that some one book out of the innumerable books men have written has been arbitrarily singled out for the highest honour. The Bible is eternal in its own right. It abides because of the fact that no word Jehovah has spoken can be removed or shaken.
Lewis Sperry Chafer
Online Works
July 10, 2004
All music should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul's refreshment; where this is not remembered there is no real music but only a devilish hub-bub.
J. S. Bach
Website
July 11, 2004
Our valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see God and the angels, heaven's spectators, who support us according to God's infinite wisdom as they prepare our welcome home.
Billy Graham
Billy Graham Organization
July 12, 2004
True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.
Sermons of George Whitefield
July 13, 2004
One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not to let it wander too far at other times. You should keep it strictly in the presence of God; and being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wanderings.
Brother Lawrence
Biography and Works
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The Practice of the Presence of God By Brother Lawrence Three hundred years ago, an uneducated lay cook in a French monastery discovered how to enjoy a profound awareness of God moment by moment, even in the midst of busyness and distraction. This book reveals Brother Lawrence's secrets. Brimming with wisdom and spiritual insight, this classic memoir of the devotional life witnesses to the joy available to all who will seek Him. |
July 14, 2004
If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.
Teresa of Lisieux
July 15, 2004
Money will buy a bed but not sleep, books but not brains, food but not appetite, finery but not beauty, medicine but not health, luxury but not culture, amusement but not happiness, a crucifix but not a Saviour, a temple of religion but not heaven.
Anonymous
July 16, 2004
A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, Do it again; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough... It is possible that God says every morning, Do it again, to the sun; and every evening, Do it again, to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike: it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.
Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton
American Chesterton Society
July 17, 2004
Is there not something captivating in the sight of a man or a woman burdened with many tribulations and yet carrying a heart as sound as a bell? Is there not something contagiously valorous in the vision of one who is greatly tempted, but is more than conqueror? Is it not heartening to see some pilgrim who is broken in body, but who retains the splendour of an unbroken patience? What a witness all this offers to the endowment of His grace!
Dr. John Henry J. H. Jowett
Biography
July 18, 2004
True worship does not originate with man. It originates with God. Worship is the result of the grace of God being applied to the heart of man; it flows from a heart that has been graced by God. The theme song for the true worshiper becomes "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found." I did not search so far and son wide that I found Him. I did not become so good that could worship Him. He found me and graced me. Freely He forgave me, and freely I worship and love Him. It is not my style of worship nor my service for Him that makes me a true worshiper. It is His amazing grace.
Sammy Tippit
Ministry Website
July 19, 2004
Why is it that we, in the very kingdom of grace, surrounded by angels,....nevertheless, can do so little, and, instead of mounting with wings like eagles, grovel in the dust, and do but sin, and confess sin alternately? Is it that the power of God is not within us? Is it literally that we are not able to perform God's commandments? God forbid. We are able. We have that given us which makes us able. We do have a power within us to do what we are commanded to do. What is it we lack? The power? No; the will. What we lack is the simple, earnest, sincere inclination and aim to use what God has given us, and what we have in us.
John Henry Newman
Biography
July 20-21, 2004
Satan has in fact a plan against the saints of the Most High which is to wear them out. What is meant by this phrase, "wear out"? It has in it the idea of reducing a little this minute, then reducing a little further the next minute. Reduce a little today, reduce a little tomorrow. Thus the wearing out is almost imperceptible; nevertheless, it is a reducing. The wearing down is scarcely an activity of which one is conscious, yet the end result is that there is nothing left. He will take away your prayer life little by little, and cause you to trust God less and less and yourself more and more, a little at a time. He will make you feel somewhat cleverer than before. Step by step, you are misled to rely more on your own gift, and step by step your heart is enticed away from the Lord. Now, were Satan to strike the children of God with great force at one time, they would know exactly how to resist the enemy since they would immediately recognize his work. He uses the method of gradualism to wear down the people of God.
Watchman Nee
Website
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Every Woman's Battle Promise Book: God's Words of Encouragement to Guard Your Heart, Mind and Body By Shannon Ethridge Keeping God's Word at your fingertips is the most effective way to battle the daily temptations in your life. Subtle sexual and emotional compromises can sneak into your life. In Every Woman's Battle Promise Book you'll find biblical promises supported by key excerpts from the book, Every Woman's Battle. Includes a foreword by Stephen Arterburn |
July 22, 2004
Jesus, within you I lose myself, without You, I find myself searching to be lost again.
Anonymous
July 23, 2004 There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
Brief Biography
July 24, 2004
Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two and burned up, so that it can never be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher
Archives
July 25, 2004
The longer you read the Bible, the more you will like it; it will grow sweeter and sweeter; and the more you get into the spirit of it, the more you will get into the spirit of Christ.
William Romaine
Article and Biography
July 26, 2004
When you and I want direction for our lives, we may not always be clear about it or certain that the direction has been given - even when we get it. That's not always because of weak faith. That may be just our human inability to know what God knows. God sees our tomorrows; we don't. Years of experience have taught me that God will probably leave me alone if I'm on the right path, but He will give me a good shove in the right direction if I'm not.
Roger C. Palms
Short Article
July 27, 2004
Breezy, self-confident Christians tell us how wonderful it is to accept Christ and then have a good time all the rest of your life; the Lord won't demand anything of you. Yes, He will, my friend! The Lord will demand everything of you. And when you give it all up to Him, He may bless it and hand it back, but on the other hand He may not....
A. W. Tozer
The Works of A. W. Tozer
July 28, 2004
I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost registered three thousand souls. It is by fire that a holy passion is kindled in the soul whereby we live the life of God. The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power.
Samuel Chadwick
Biography
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The Way to Pentecost By Samuel Chadwick "No other book I have ever read on the subject so clearly analyzes both our spiritual problems and God's wonderful promise concerning the supply of His Spirit." - Pastor Jim Cymbala, The Brooklyn Tabernacle Samuel Chadwick Books |
July 29, 2004
Things great have small beginnings. Every downpour is just a raindrop; every fire is just a spark; every harvest is just a seed; every journey is just a step because without that step there will be no journey; without that raindrop there can be no shower; without that seed there can be no harvest.
William Wilberforce
Biography
July 30, 2004
Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie Ten Boom Museum
July 31, 2004
He who breathes into our hearts the heavenly hope, will not deceive or fail us when we press forward to its realization.
Anonymous
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