Please read the conditions for use before
using any quotes from this site.
September 2011
September 1, 2011
Just as trees swayed by the winds drive their roots deeply into the earth, so those who live in obedience get strong and unshakable souls.
John Climacus
Website
September 2, 2011
It is rather ridiculous to ask a man just about to be boiled in a pot and eaten, at a purely religious feast, why he does not regard all religions as equally friendly and fraternal.
Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton
American Chesterton Society
September 3, 2011
We must rediscover and reclaim our spiritual heritage. The emerging new world of the twenty-first century may be new to us, but it is not new to our spiritual ancestors - the developed Christian community in the midst of a very similar culture. If by God's grace they could do it, so can we. Christians are commissioned to witness to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The church of Jesus Christ is called out of the world for the purpose of sharing new life.... The purpose of the minister is to equip people to build up the Body of Christ. The purpose of laity is to pass on to others the new life God has given them. The goal is never simply to "run to the church," no matter what size the church may be.
Bill Easum
Ministry Site
September 4, 2011
Friend, it is through him that you are speaking, it is he whom you breathe, and you do not know it! For your eye is blind, your heart hardened. But, if you wish, you can be cured. Entrust yourself to the doctor, and he will open the eyes of your soul and your heart. Who is the doctor? God, using his word and his wisdom.
Theophilus of Antioch
Biography
September 5, 2011
So often in ministry, I have wanted to do it by myself. If it didn't work, I went to others and said, "Please!" searching for a community to help me. If that didn't work, maybe I'd start praying. But the order that Jesus teaches us is the reverse. It begins by being with God in solitude; then it creates a fellowship, a community of people with whom the mission is being lived; and finally this community goes out together to heal and to proclaim good news.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Nouwen Centre
September 6, 2011
Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.
Charles Stanley
In Touch
September 7, 2011
Ponder the achievement of God. He doesn't condone our sin, nor does He compromise His standard. He doesn't ignore our rebellion, nor does He relax His demands. Rather than dismiss our sin, He assumes our sin and, incredibly, sentences Himself. God's holiness is honoured. Our sin is punished...and we are redeemed. God does what we cannot do so we can be what we dare not dream; perfect before God.
Max Lucado
Upwords
September 8, 2011
Do not let anyone convince you that if it were really God it would not be so scary and it certainly would not hurt. Hang on with everything that is in you, even if it hurts. Insist on a blessing to go with your wound and do not let go until you have got one. Then thank God for your life, limp and all, and tilt your way home.
Barbara Brown Taylor
Short Biography
September 9, 2011
The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message.
Michael Horton
September 10, 2011
The more we trust, the more reasonable we find it to trust.
George Macdonald
The Golden Key Website
September 11, 2011
If the children of God were always saved from floods like believing Noah and his family; if every time somebody pointed a gun at a Christian, the gun just turned to salami; if we really had a money-back guarantee against hatred, disease, and the acts of terrorists, then of course we wouldn't have to worry about church growth. Our churches would fill with people attracted to the faith for secondary reasons. These are people who want an insurance agent, not a church.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
September 12, 2011
A good workman can accept the reward of his labor with assurance, but one who is idle and shiftless cannot look his employer in the face. That is why we must devote ourselves heart and soul to the task of well-doing, for everything comes from the hand of God and He has already warned us, "See the Lord is approaching, with his reward before him, to pay every man as his work deserves.
Clement
September 13, 2011
Even if all we have is a little, the Lord desires us to be joyfully generous, so that He will have for His church an abundance for every good work. Let us not be selfish or deceived by money. In a real sense, money is not a blessing; it's a test.
Francis Frangipane
Ministries of Francis Frangipane
September 14, 2011
The shadows of the evening that precedes a lovelier morning are drawing down around us both. But our God is in the shadow as in the shine, and all is and will be well: have we not seen his glory in the face of Jesus? and do we not know him a little?...This life is a lovely time, but I never was content with it. I look for better --- oh, so far better! I think we do not yet know the joy of mere existence.... May the loving Father be near you and may you know it, and be perfectly at peace all the way into the home country, and to the palace home of the living one -- the life of our life.
George Macdonald
The Golden Key Website
September 15, 2011
Abiding in Jesus is not a work that needs each moment the mind to be engaged, or the affections to be directly and actively occupied with it. It is an entrusting of oneself to the keeping of the Eternal Love, in the faith that it will abide near us, and with its holy presence watch over us and ward off the evil, even when we have to be most intently occupied with other things. And so the heart has rest and peace and joy in the consciousness of being kept when it cannot keep itself.
Andrew Murray
Biography And Works
September 16, 2011
If the good news of God's grace is to be truly heard, the bad news concerning man's sin must be preached. If the "Yes" of God's grace is to be truly heard, God's "No" to sin must be proclaimed.
Charles Cameron
September 17, 2011
It is a great blessing from God that some parts of the Scriptures are clear while others are not. By means of the first we acquire faith and ardour and do not fall into disbelief and laziness because of our utter inability to grasp what is said. By means of the second we are roused to enquiry and effort, thus both strengthening our understanding and learning humility from the fact that everything is not intelligible to us.
Peter of Damaskos
September 18, 2011
For years, maybe, you have tried fruitlessly to exercise control over yourself, and perhaps this is still your experience; but when once you see the truth you will recognize that you are indeed powerless to do anything, but that in setting you aside altogether God has done it all. Such discovery brings human striving and self effort to an end.
Watchman Nee
Website
September 19, 2011
Fellowship between God and man, interrupted by the sin of the first Adam, was reopened by redemption bought with the blood of the last Adam. Now anyone can have direct koinonia with God and share His very life - -anyone can live a life of love and unity with Christ. This is really the centre of Christianity, and "faith" is nothing other than the state of having this life union with God. To be justified by faith means that God has access to repentant sinners through Christ and is thus able to enjoy this koinonia with them.
Kokichi Kurosaki
September 20, 2011
The open door does not necessarily mean the easy pathway.
G. Campbell Morgan
Online Archive and Biography
September 21, 2011
Our young men are going into the professional fields because they don't 'feel called' to the mission field. We don't need a call; we need a kick in the pants. We must begin thinking in terms of 'going out', and stop our weeping because 'they won't come in'. Who wants to step into an igloo? The tombs themselves are not colder than the churches. May God send us forth.
Jim Elliot
Brief Biography
September 22, 2011
If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.
Oswald Chambers
My Utmost for His Highest
September 23, 2011
By letting go, the offended refuses to let herself be held captive by the offender's unwillingness to repent.
Carolyn Holderread Heggen
Canadian Christian Psychologist
September 24, 2011
Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.
John Owen
Biography-Website
September 25, 2011
It is possible for a man to analyze the Bible and lose it in the process, to prepare a synthesis of the Bible and lose his soul at the work; to make himself perfectly familiar with the letter, and to find out that the letter kills because he has lost touch with the spirit.
G. Campbell Morgan
Online Archive and Biography
September 26, 2011
There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones.
Madeleine L'Engle
September 27, 2011
Our spiritual life must pass down to deeper depths and on up into higher experiences of life, or we shall lose even what we have. We cannot cling to the sweetest spiritual experiences, the fondest object of our highest joy, without ceasing to grow and bear fruit.... We must learn not only to give up our wrongs, but to give up our rights.... We must turn from the things that are not sinful and learn the great lesson of self renunciation even in rightful things.... We must have the cross mark upon our affections and friendships,...our prayers,...the life of our body.... Our religious experiences must have the mark of the cross on them.... Our service for God must often be buried before it can bring forth much fruit.
A. B. Simpson
Biography/Bibliography
September 28, 2011
The secret of the Christian is not the he is always in the right and puts other people in the right, but that he is a forgiven man. This is the secret of a Christian's humility, and his liberation to love God and his fellows with a new impulse. So the strength of the Church is not the strength of its members, but the strength of Christ who forgives them, humbles them, and can do something with them. So no one is excluded who is ready to say, 'I am sorry. God help me, a sinner.' In the final crisis all that Peter could say was 'I am sorry," and Christ made him the rock man of the Church.
A. Michael Ramsey
100th Archbishop of Canterbury
September 29, 2011
Charles Haddon Spurgeon said meekness is being submissive to God's will and responsive to His Word. When He directs you to do something, He will tell you the manner in which to do it. If His will requires gentleness, He will help you to be tender. If it requires boldness, His power will surge through you to accomplish what He asks.
Joy Strang
Spirit Led Woman
September 30, 2011
We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
Chazal
August 2011 / October 2011 /
