May 1, 2005
The Christian personality is hidden deep inside us. It is unseen, like the soup carried in a tureen high over a waiter's head. No one knows hat's inside - unless the waiter is bumped and he trips! Just so, people don't know what's inside us until we've been bumped. But if Christ is living inside, what spills out is the fruit of the Spirit.
Henry Wingblade
May 2, 2005
A great many people seem to embalm their troubles. I always feel like running away when I see them coming. They bring out their old mummy, and tell you in a sad voice You don't know the troubles I have! My friends, if you go to the Lord with your troubles, He will take them away. Would you not rather be with the Lord and get rid of your troubles, than be with your troubles and without God? Let trouble come if it will drive us nearer to God.
Dwight L Moody
Brief Biography
May 3, 2005
To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
John Henry Newman
Biography
May 4, 2005
Few are they who manage to dam the rush of water. Sill fewer are they who are able to stem the gossiping tongue.
Anonymous
May 5, 2005
To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and neglected with equal disregard of policy and goodness.
Samuel Johnson
Informational Website
May 6, 2005
Few things are more infectious than a godly lifestyle. The people you rub shoulders with everyday need that kind of challenge. Not prudish. Not preachy. Just cracker jack clean living. Just honest to goodness, bone - deep, non-hypocritical integrity.
Charles (Chuck) Swindoll
Insight For Living
May 7, 2005
We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves. The idea is to live all of our lives in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and for the honour and glory of God. That is what the Christian life is all about.
R. C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
May 8, 2005
The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. And the greatest thing a mother can do for her children is to love their father.
Josh McDowell
Website
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Following God Series: How to Develop a Quiet Time, Life Principles for Meeting with God
How would you describe your personal devotional time? Is it in a dry spell of religious reading, or is it a refreshing encounter with the presence of God? How to Establish a Quiet Time: A Forty Day Journey isn't about religious ritual or duty. It is all about building a more intimate, enjoyable, and satisfying time with the Lord. It is a forty-day adventure in making your time with God more meaningful and satisfying. On the other side of those days lies a radically different relationship with God. Quiet Time features forty daily devotional readings designed to challenge your thinking and prompt your meeting with God. Each day, you will see truths from Scripture to ponder, guided prayer to help you know what you want to talk to God about, and personal application to facilitate life-change. Each daily encounter is woven into six weekly themes including:
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May 9, 2005
The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has he become our Father but every other Christian believer in the world, whatever his nation or denomination, has become our brother or sister in Christ. But it is no good supposing that membership of the universal Church of Christ is enough; we must belong to some local branch of it. Every Christian's place is in a local church, sharing in its worship, its fellowship, and its witness.
John R. W. Stott
John Stott Ministries
May 10, 2005
The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, "What a lovely sermon!" but, "I will do something!"
Francis de Sales
Biography and Works
May 11, 2005
Courtesy is the visible "halo" of the saint of today. Do those about you, see tangible signs that identify you as a "saint" of God?
Anonymous
May 12, 2005
Morbid introspection.... is nonsense. Either God exists -- or He does not. If He does, either an individual has a relationship with Him -- or that relationship has been severed. Indigestion or arthritis can't change the bottom fact that 'God is' or the unfailingness of a single one of His promises.
Catherine Marshall
Biography
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Meeting God at Every Turn By Catherine Marshall Is there a God who cares about me? Will he show me the right thing to do? Will he forgive and heal me? In this book, Catherine Marshall gives readers a resounding "Yes!" to these questions and more as she describes how she met God at the confusing, troubled, and scary points in her life. The twelve "turnings" that Marshall describes are the type of events that shape a person: growing up, love and marriage, facing death, making a living, starting over in relationships and business, and more. Meeting God at Every Turn tells what happened each time Catherine turned a corner--how she surprisingly encountered grace. It's her story, but every reader's too. Thirteen pages of family photographs are included. |
May 13, 2005
We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own poverty and weakness - today pleased and comforted with the seeming firmness and strength of our own pious tempers and fancying ourselves to be somewhat. Tomorrow, fallen into our own mire, we are dejected, but not humbled; we grieve, but it is only the grief of pride at the seeing our perfection not to be such as we had vainly imagined. And thus it will be, till the whole turn of our minds be so changed that we as fully see and know our inability to have any goodness of our own as to have a life of our own.
William Law
Biography and Works
May 14, 2005
Like as the gnomon (pointer on a sundial] doth ever behold the north star, whether it be closed and shut up in a coffer of gold, silver, or wood, never losing its nature; so a faithful Christian..., whether he abound in wealth or be pinched with poverty, whether he be of high or low degree in this world, ought continually to have his faith and hope surely built and grounded upon Christ, and to have his heart and find fast fixed and settled in him, and to follow him through thick and thin, through fire and water, through wars and peace, through hunger and cold, through friends and foes, through a thousand perils and dangers, through the surges and waves of envy, malice, hatred, evil speeches, railing sentences, contempt of the world, flesh, and devil, and even in death itself, be it never so bitter, cruel, and tyrannical, yet never to lose sight and view of Christ, never to give over faith, hope, and trust in him.
Robert Cawdray
May 15, 2005
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure;
where your treasure is, there is your heart;
where your heart is, there is your happiness.
Augustine
Works and Biography
May 16, 2005
In my teens, I was approached by a total stranger on a crowded city street. She said. "You are Kae Cameron's daughter, I'd recognize her face any where!" And she was right. How I long for the day when people look at my life and say. "Oh, you must be a daughter of the Heavenly Father, I recognize His face anywhere!"
Katherine Walden
I Lift My Eyes Web Ministries
May 17, 2005
Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there.
Arthur John (A. J.) Gossip
Brief Biography
May 18, 2005
In Christ we have a love that can never be fathomed, a life that can never die, a peace that can never be understood, a rest that can never be disturbed, a joy that can never be diminished, a hope that can never be disappointed, a glory that can never be clouded, a light that can never be darkened, and a spiritual resource that can never be exhausted.
Anonymous
May 19, 2005
Someone once asked Billy Graham, "If Christianity is valid, why is there so much evil in the world?" To this the famous preacher replied, "With so much soap, why are there so many dirty people in the world? Christianity, like soap, must be personally applied if it is to make a difference in our lives."
Billy Graham
Billy Graham Organization
May 20, 2005
Blessed Lord, open our ears to hear what Thou speakest and our eyes to see as Thou seest. Give us hearts to beat in sympathy with Thine at the sight of every little child; and above all, our Lord, to understand and experience how surely and how blessedly Thou fulfillest Thy promise, "Whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me."
Andrew Murray
Biography and Works
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The Blessings of Obedience By Andrew Murray Obedience is not the most popular word in our vocabulary. We live in a society that is constantly battling the system, fighting for what we want. We're primarily concerned with how the rules inconvenience us, and we're looking to see what we can get away with. Obedience is much more than following rules; it's a state of the heart. By missing this truth, we miss the power of complete obedience. Discover how obedience to God's plan will put you in the center of His will! Andrew Murray explores the love behind God's demands and the grace that makes it possible for us to obey. The blessing of complete obedience is your intimate connection with a loving, protective heavenly Father who desires more than anything to give you a rich and fulfilling life! |
May 21, 2005
Give yourself to it, [the call to prayer] yield to it; and you will find not only that you have not been wasting time with respect to the matter with which you are dealing but that actually it has helped you greatly in that respect. You will experience an ease and a facility in understanding what you were reading, in thinking, in ordering matter for a sermon, in writing, in everything which is quite astonishing. Such a call to prayer must never be regarded as a distraction; always respond to it immediately, and thank God if it happens to you frequently.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Martyn Lloyd-Jones Website
May 22, 2005
The Christian life isn't difficult - it is impossible. If we don't know that, we will try to do things ourselves. Faith is not necessary when we think we can do it ourselves. Faith comes along when we realize that we cannot do it on our own.
Joseph Garlingen
May 23, 2005
O Holy Spirit of God, abide with us; inspire all our thoughts; pervade our imaginations; suggest all our decisions; order all our doings. Be with us in our silence and in our speech, in our haste and in our leisure, in company and in solitude, in the freshness of the morning and in the weariness of the evening; and give us grace at all times humbly to rejoice in Thy mysterious companionship.
John Baillie
Biography
May 24, 2005
When a church seeks a pastor, they want the strength of an eagle, the grace of a swan, the gentleness of a dove, the friendliness of a sparrow, and the night hours of an owl. And when they catch that bird, they expect the pastor to live on the food of a canary.
Anonymous
May 25, 2005
It is impossible to escape tribulation in this world but the man who is given over to the will of God bears tribulation easily, seeing it but putting his trust in the Lord, and so his tribulations pass.
Archimandrite Sophrony
May 26, 2005
A blind, anaemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God.
Ray Comfort
Living Waters
May 27, 2005
Faith is two empty hands held open to receive all of the Lord.
Alan Redpath
Brief Biography And Bibliography
May 28, 2005
Destitute of the Fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing Fire, nothing else matters.
Samuel Chadwick
Biography
May 29, 2005
Hudson Taylor, founder of China Inland Mission, in the closing months of his life said to a friend, "I am so weak. I can't read my Bible. I can't even pray. I can only lie still in God's arms like a little child and trust."
James Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor Biography
May 30, 2005
Most of our conflicts and difficulties come from trying to deal with the spiritual and practical aspects of our life separately instead of realizing them as parts of one whole. If our practical life is centred on our own interests, cluttered up by possessions, distracted by ambitions, passions, wants and worries, beset by a sense of our own rights and importance, or anxieties for our own future, or longings for our own success, we need not expect that our spiritual life will be a contrast to all this. The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction -- not merely the idea -- that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the nicely furnished little oratory and drowning all the quieter voices by their din.
Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn Underhill Association
May 31, 2005
Here is the great evangelical disaster - the failure of the evangelical world to stand for truth as truth. There is only one word for this - namely ACCOMMODATION. The evangelical church has accommodated to the world spirit of the age. First, there has been accommodation on Scripture, so that many who call themselves evangelicals hold a weakened view of the Bible and no longer affirm the truth of all the Bible teaches....This accommodation has been costly, first in destroying the power of the Scriptures to confront the spirit of our age; second, in allowing the further slide of our culture.
Francis Shaeffer
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