I would have the whole of my experience one continued sense - first, of my nothingness, and dependence on God; second, of my guiltiness and desert before Him; third, of my obligations to redeeming love, as utterly overwhelming me with its incomprehensible extent and grandeur...
Charles Simeon
Brief Biography
Our Lord gives the answer to a difficulty continually perplexing honest Christians- "How am I to learn to love God?" Our Lord gives the answer, "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Act for God, do and say the things that He wills; direct your thoughts and intentions God-ward; and, depend upon it, in the slow process of nature, all that belongs to you- your instincts, your intelligence, your affections, your feelings- will gradually follow along the line of your action. Act for God; you are already showing love to Him and you will learn to feel it.
Charles Gore
Short Biography and Bibliography
Whenever I am afield or outdoors, there steals over me the acute consciousness that I am confronted on every hand by the superb workmanship of my Father. It is as if every tree, rock, river, flower, mountain, bird, or blade of grass had stamped upon it the indelible label, "Made by God." Is it any wonder that in a simple yet sublime sense of devotion, respect, and reverence for all life, Christ longed for His Father's name to be hollowed throughout the earth?
Phillip Keller
Short Biography
The risen life of Jesus is the nourishment and strengthening and blessing and life of a Christian. Our daily experience ought to be that there comes, wavelet by wavelet, that silent, gentle, and yet omnipotent influx into our empty hearts, this very life of Christ Himself.
Alexander MacLaren
Biography and Online Library
Until we know Jesus, God is merely a concept, and we can't have faith in Him. But once we hear Jesus say, "He who has seen Me has seen the Father" (John 14:9) we immediately have something that is real, and our faith is limitless.
Oswald Chambers
My Utmost for His Highest
More Oswald Chambers Materials Human being possess an abundance of God-like attributes, have the capacity of relating intimately with God, and also have responsibilities. To be made in the image of God is to be made like God. It would be foolish to take this statement too far and conclude that we actually are gods.
D. Gareth Jones
Department Head, Anatomy & Structural Biology, University of Otaga, New Zealand
Many who say "Our Father" on Sunday spend the rest of the week acting like orphans.
Anonymous
Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him.
John Wesley
Wesley Centre
Lord, to Thy call of me I bow, obey like Abraham; Thou lov'st me because Thou art Thou, And I am what I am. Doubt whispers, "Thou art such a blot He cannot love poor thee." If what I am He loveth not, He loves what I shall be.
George Macdonald
The Golden Key Website
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May not a single moment of my life be spent outside the light, love and joy of God's presence and not a moment without the entire surrender of my self as a vessel for Him to fill full of His Spirit and His love.
Andrew Murray
Biography and Works
In the sorest trials God often makes the sweetest discoveries of Himself.
Anonymous
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Becoming a Man of Prayer: A Seven-Week Strategy Based on the Instructions of Jesus By Bob Beltz If you want to grow in your relationship with God, then becoming a man of prayer is crucial. That's why Beltz offers you a proven 7-week strategy, based on Jesus' teachings, to help you move from five minutes to half an hour a day alone with God. You'll find just the support you need to become a more prayerful person. 144 pages, softcover from NavPress. |
God loves us the way we are but He loves us too much to leave us that way.
Leighton Ford
Faith does not grasp a doctrine, but a heart. The trust which Christ requires is the bond that unites souls with Him; and the very life of it is entire committal of myself to Him in all my relations and for all my needs, and absolute utter confidence in Him as all sufficient for everything that I can require.
Alexander MacLaren
Biography and Online Library
In the midst of the awesomeness, a touch comes, and you know it is the right hand of Jesus Christ. You know it is not the hand of restraint, correction, nor chastisement, but the right hand of the Everlasting Father. Whenever His hand is laid upon you, it gives inexpressible peace and comfort, and the sense that "underneath are the everlasting arms," (Deuteronomy 33:27) full of support, provision, comfort and strength.
Oswald Chambers
My Utmost for His Highest
The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.
Blaise Pascal
Biography
God is on my side. He makes Himself responsible for my being. If I will only trust myself to Him with the cordial return of trustful love, then all that He has ever breathed into my heart of human possibility He will realize and bring to perfection.
Charles Gore
Short Biography And Bibliography
Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. That puts us in the "on-top" position, where we are competent and in control. But when praying, we come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent... The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter. Frankly, this side of eternity we will never unravel the good from the bad, the pure from the impure. God is big enough to receive us with all our mixture. That is what grace means, and not only are we saved by it, we live by it as well. And we pray by it.
Richard J. Foster
Brief Biography and List of Works
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The single most important element in any human relationship is honesty - with oneself, with God, and with others.
Catherine Marshall
Spiritual Portrait
It is not what WE do for God, but what HE does through us.
Judy Sexton
...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers. Let us ascribe to the Lord at least the same amount of attention that good parents show to the requests of their children, at least that provident and attentive love which good parents have for their children.
John of Kronstadt
Brief Biography
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 tocall upon Him, pray to Him, praise Him and thank Him in all times of trouble.
Martin Luther
Biography and Information
Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee.
Augustine
Works and Biography
Did not Jesus say, "I am the door of the sheepfold"? What to us is the sheepfold, dear children? It is the heart of the Father, whereunto Christ is the Gate that is called Beautiful. 0 children, how sweetly and how gladly has He opened that door into the Father's heart, into the treasure-chamber of God! And there within He unfolds to us the hidden riches, the nearness and the sweetness of companionship with Himself.
John Tauler
Biography and Online Works
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Life with God: Reading the Bible for Spiritual Transformation By Richard J. Foster Many of us read the Bible like we're at a fast-food restaurant--we want nourishment quickly and read only to satisfy the gnawing hunger. We want the Bible to meet our needs, and it does, but-- what if we the read the Bible like a five-course meal, pausing to savor and enjoy, allowing the experience to settle and transform us. In "Life with God," Richard Foster introduces you to the "with-God life," showing you how to experience the Scriptures in a deeper way. Allow the truth of Scripture not only to meet your needs, but transform you into the image of Christ. |
There is nothing we can do to make God love us more, there is nothing we can do to make God love us less.
Philip Yancey
Biography
Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with my foolishness, my weakness, my fear. Our fellowship is with God, and fellowship is friendship, and friendship means that partnership which, on His part, is the accommodating of His strength to my weakness.
G. Campbell Morgan
Biography
We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.
Alexander MacLaren
Biography and Online Library
I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.
Madeleine L'Engle
Website
Quotes on a Christian's Relationship with their God.
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