October 1, 2004
Men do not differ much about what things they call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton
American Chesterton Society
October 2, 2004
Where do you stand in your relationship with the Lord? People often say, God is good to me, by which they mean that they have experienced good health or prosperity. What a person possesses is not always a safe measure of his dedication to the Lord.
Theodore Epp
Biography and Devotionals
October 3, 2004
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons; but they are helpless against our prayers .
J. Sidlow Baxter
Online Article.
October 4, 2004
It does not matter whether you are a good or bad example of a Christian, to the unsaved your life may be their only example.
Anonymous
October 5, 2004
It is not hard for the Lord to turn night into day. He that sends the clouds can as easily clear the skies. Let us be of good cheer. It is better farther on. Let us sing Hallelujah by anticipation.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Spurgeon Archive
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October 6, 2004
No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him. We need more of this 'being asleep' in the will of God. Then we can receive what He brings us in His own time, if at all. Instead we are set as blood-hounds after a partner, considering everyone we see until our minds are so concerned with the sex problem that we can talk of nothing else when bull-session time comes around. It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women --- but he can think of them as he ought --- as sisters, not as sparring partners. Diary entry when he was still single
Jim Elliot
Brief Biography
October 8, 2004
Of all the sins which a human is capable, none is so easy to commit [as back-biting], none so difficult to repair.
Claude de la Colombiere
Biography
October 9, 2004
We seldom realize fully that we are sent to fulfill God-given tasks. We act as if we were simply dropped down in creation and have to decide to entertain ourselves until we die. But we were sent into the world by God, just as Jesus was. Once we start living our lives with that conviction, we will soon know what we were sent to do.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Nouwen Centre
October 10, 2004
John Wesley tells of a dream he had. In the dream, he was ushered to the gates of Hell. There he asked, "Are there any Presbyterians here?" "Yes!", came the answer. Then he asked, "Are there any Baptists? Any Episcopalians? Any Methodists?" The answer was Yes! each time. Much distressed, Wesley was then ushered to the gates of Heaven. There he asked the same question, and the answer was No! "No?" To this, Wesley asked, "Who then is inside?" The answer came back, "There are only Christians here." (1 Cor 1:10-17)
John Wesley
Wesley Centre
October 11, 2004 (Canadian Thanksgiving)
The careless soul receives the Father's gifts as if it were a way things had of dropping into his hand...yet he is ever complaining, as if someone were accountable for the problems which meet him at every turn. For the good that comes to him, he gives no thanks - who is there to thank? At the disappointments that befall him he grumbles - there must be someone to blame!
George Macdonald
The Golden Key Website
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October 12, 2004
The work of spirituality is to recognize where we are - the particular circumstances of our lives - to recognize grace and say, "Do you suppose God wants to be with me in a way that does not involve changing my spouse or getting rid of my spouse or my kids, but in changing me, and doing something in my life that maybe I could never experience without this pain and this suffering?
Edmund Clowney
Website
October 13, 2004
Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?
Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot's Website
October 14, 2004
Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus!
Oswald J. Smith
Biography
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October 15, 2004
Early African converts to Christianity were earnest and regular in private devotions. Each one reportedly had a separate spot in the thicket where he would pour out his heart to God. Over time the paths to these places became well worn. As a result, if one of these believers began to neglect prayer, it was soon apparent to the others. They would kindly remind the negligent one, "Brother, the grass grows on your path."
Anonymous
October 16, 2004
A newborn child has to cry, for only in this way will his lungs expand. A doctor once told me of a child who could not breathe when it was born. In order to make it breathe doctor gave it a slight blow. The mother must have thought the doctor cruel. But he was really doing the kindest thing possible. As with newborn children the lungs are contracted, so are our spiritual lungs. But through suffering God strikes us in love. Then our lungs expand and we can breathe and pray.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
Short Biography
October 17, 2004
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.
R. C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
October 18, 2004
Faith expects from God what is beyond all expectation.
Andrew Murray
Biography and Works
October 19, 2004
Such is man's nature, that he is very inactive and lazy unless he is influenced by some affection, either love or hatred, desire, hope, fear, or some other. These affections we see to be the springs that set men agoing, in all the affairs of life, and engage them in all their pursuits: these are the things that put men forward, and carry them along.
Jonathan Edwards
The Works of Jonathan Edwards
October 20, 2004
The triumphant Christian does not fight for victory; he celebrates a victory already won.
Captain Reginald Wallis
October 21, 2004
Sometimes I ponder the whys of life. It seems to me I've been handed a strange assortment of circumstances with which to contend. I've even complained that I've not liked the way things were going, and then I stop and look back on my life and see how God has worked and put everything together so beautifully. My life's been full of challenges God has turned into blessings, and my "Why God?" has turned into a triumphant "Why not!"
Ginny Arnt
October 22, 2004
Buried under the biggest burden is a good place to find an even bigger blessing.
Janette Oke
Website
October 23, 2004
We may sing beforehand, even in our winter storm, in the expectation of a summer sun at the turn of the year; no created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord; for faith has never yet cause to have wet cheeks, and hanging-down brows, or to droop or die.
Samuel Rutherford
Selected Letters
October 24, 2004
Nature is our sister, not our mother; she too has fallen.
Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton
American Chesterton Society
October 25, 2004
We are all supposed to be obedient to that love, but we forget love whenever we want power over someone else. We human beings mess it up, over and over again, but God comes into our lives to help us overcome our stiff-neckedness. Indeed, God so loved the world that he sent his only-begotten Son to live with us and teach us how to be the fully human creatures our Maker has always planned for us to be.
Madeleine L'Engle
Website
Madeleine L'Engle Materials
October 26, 2004
Rather than saying "God, here is my problem," we should put the problem into perspective by saying, "Problem, here is my God!
Anonymous
October 27, 2004
Any battle for victory, power, and deliverance - from ourselves and from sin - which is not based constantly upon the gazing and the beholding of the Lord Jesus, with the heart and life lifted up to Him, is doomed to failure.
Alan Redpath
Brief Biography And Bibliography
October 28, 2004
I vividly remember how I had, at one time, become totally dependent on the affection and friendship of one person. This dependency threw me into a pit of great anguish and brought me to the verge of a very self-destructive depression. But from the moment I was helped to experience my interpersonal addiction as an expression of a need for total surrender to a living God who would fulfill the deepest desires of my heart, I started to live my dependency in a radically new way. Instead of living it in shame and embarrassment, I was able to live it as an urgent invitation to claim God's unconditional love for myself, a love I can depend on without any fear.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Nouwen Centre
October 29, 2004
To the individual believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit there is granted the direct impression of the Spirit of God on the spirit of man, imparting the knowledge of His will in matters of the smallest and greatest importance. This has to be sought and waited for.
G. Campbell Morgan
Online Archive and Biography
October 30, 2004
Does it grieve you my friends, that the name of God is being taken in vain and desecrated? Does it grieve you that we are living in a godless age...But, we are living in such an age and the main reason we should be praying about revival is that we are anxious to see God's name vindicated and His glory manifested. We should be anxious to see something happening that will arrest the nations, all the peoples, and cause them to stop and to think again.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Martyn Lloyd-Jones Website
October 31, 2004
I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
Dwight L Moody
Brief Biography
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