You cannot stop people's tongues, and therefore the best thing to do is to stop your own ears and never mind what is spoken.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Spurgeon Archive
November 2, 2008
It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.
John Bunyan
Online Library
November 3, 2008
Try so to live in the light of God's love that it becomes a second nature to you, tolerate nothing adverse to it, be continually striving to please Him in all things, take all that He sends patiently; resolve firmly never to commit the smallest deliberate fault, and if, unhappily you are overtaken by any sin, humble yourself, and rise up speedily. You will not be always thinking of God consciously, but all your thoughts will be ruled by Him, His Presence will check useless or evil thoughts, and your heart will be perpetually fixed on Him, ready to do His holy will.
Jean Nicolas (J N) Grou
Being Devoted to God
November 4, 2008
Jesus has also been accused of being ineffective, in a political sense, and of having done little to right social injustices. But it is clear from the Sermon on the Mount that he was deeply concerned that his disciples should be both the "salt" and the "light" of secular society; he endorsed the authority of those Old Testament prophets who vehemently rebuked social injustice; and he consistently identified himself with the poor and weak, with social outcasts and those who were regarded as morally disreputable...It is true that he did not lead a rebellion against Rome, seek to free slaves, or introduce a social revolution. He had come for a particular purpose, which was far more important than any of these things - and from that purpose nothing could or did deflect him.
J. N. D. Anderson
November 5, 2008
Prayer is like riding a bicycle or swimming. You learn by doing.
Luis Palau
Luis Palau Evangelistic Organization
November 6, 2008
We must put our confidence in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.
William Gurnall
Online Works
November 7, 2008
Glance at the problems, but gaze at Jesus.
Anonymous
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Conversations with the Voiceless: Finding God's Love in Life's Hardest Questions By John Wessells Deep in our souls, we all have questions--very difficult questions about life, love, health, suffering, tragedy, and God. In the author's work with the comatose, he has found that the voiceless have some important things to tell us--crucial, direct, clarifying things--about our questions. these voiceless ones comprise more that just the head-injured; they include the poor, the suffering, infants, and the terminally ill. Each of these speaks for God. Their words to us, like Christ's, are often impractical, inconvenient, and unpredictable. Yet, above all, they're a relief. The voiceless return us to the simple words of Jesus. Often during his life on earth. Christ avoided giving answers and instead offered love. This book is really about asking the unanswerable questions and the silence that comes from asking those question--silence from the head-injured, comatose, children, the poor, prisoners, the terminally ill, and the suffering because they can't express themselves, and from us because they are questions without answers, save "faith"--the faith that is needed to hear the silence--the hope that hearing "in faith" can bring. |
November 8, 2008
Waiting for God means...readiness for any command; that sense of perpetual suspense which listens for the word in order that it may be immediately obeyed. Those who wait for God are pilgrim souls that have no tie that will hold them when the definite command is issued; no prejudices that will paralyze their effort when in some strange coming of the light they are commanded to take a pathway entirely different to that which was theirs before; having no interests either temporal or eternal, either material or mental or spiritual, that will conflict with the will of God when that will is made known.
G. Campbell Morgan
Biography
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God's Guidance: Finding His Will for Your Life By Elisabeth Elliot Life is a series of options, and your choices often affect the rest of your life. So how do you know what's the right choice? What does God want you to do, and how can you be sure you're hearing him correctly? In God's Guidance, Elliot offers you insight and observations born from a lifetime of following God's lead to show how and why God guides his children. She invites you to draw closer to God so you can walk confidently, knowing you are in his will. Complete with a study guide for personal or small group study, this practical book will inspire you to go to God for the big -- and little -- answers in life! |
November 9, 2008
The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.
Max Lucado
Upwords
November 10, 2008
God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth and the lips, to teach us to be wary that we offend not with our tongue.
Thomas Watson
Online Works And Biography
November 11, 2008
Come all crosses, welcome, welcome! so I may get my heart full of my Lord Jesus.
Samuel Rutherford
Selected Letters
November 12, 2008
No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
George Macdonald
The Golden Key Website
More George MacDonald Materials
November 13, 2008
Happy are they...who shall learn...not to despair, but shall remember, that though the day is past, and their strength is wasted, there yet remains one effort to be made; that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted; that the wanderer may at length return after all his errors, and that he who implores strength and courage from above shall find danger and difficulty give way before him.
Samuel Johnson
Informational Website
November 14, 2008
Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.
Charles H. Brent
Brief Biography
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Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness By Dan B. Allender, Ph.D. / WaterBrook Press Think you're not leadership material because you have flaws? God chose not-so-perfect people to help him. Being authentic about our deficits, says Allender, is fundamental to success. With wit and wisdom, he uses stories, research data, and biblical insights to explore God's "hiring" practices, and shows how inadequacies and brokenness create the most effective leaders. |
November 15, 2008
We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.
Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot's Website
November 16, 2008
Every day you provide your bodies with good to keep them from failing. In the same way your good works should be the daily nourishment of your hearts. Your bodies are fed with food and your spirits with good works. You aren't to deny your soul, which is going to live forever, what you grant to your body, which is going to die.
Anonymous
November 17, 2008
Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about anymore than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks. A good night's sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace.
Frederick Buechner
November 18, 2008
The reason that people do not have a rich, beautiful faith is that their spirit is denied the privilege of communion and fellowship with the Father.
John G. Lake
November 19, 2008
Down through the centuries in times of trouble and trial God has brought courage to the hearts of those who love Him. The Bible is filled with assurances of God's help and comfort in every kind of trouble which might cause fears to arise in the human heart. You can look ahead with promise, hope, and joy.
Billy Graham
Billy Graham Organization
November 20, 2008
I'm glad God has all the answers, 'cause I barely understand the questions.
Barbara Johnson
Interview
November 21, 2008
People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.
Henry Ward Beecher
Archives
November 22, 2008
When my body is pained, it is not wrong to wish for relief. When overtaken by sickness, it is not wrong to send for the physician. You may call this selfishness, which He who made us what we are, and who gave us these instincts, expects us to act upon; and in acting on which, we may count upon his blessing, not his rebuke. It is not wrong to dread hell, to desire heaven, to flee from torments, to long for blessedness, to shun condemnation, and to desire pardon.
Horatius Bonar
November 23, 2008
People seem to think that the masses are outside the Christian church because our evangelistic methods are not what they ought to be. That is not the answer. People are outside the church because looking at us they say, "What is the point of being Christians? - look at them!" They are judging Christ by you and me. And you cannot stop them and you cannot blame them.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Martyn Lloyd-Jones Website
November 24, 2008
We never know how much real faith we have until it is put to the test in some fierce storm; and that is the reason why the Saviour is on board. If you are ever to be strong in the Lord and the power of His might, your strength will be born in some storm.
Anonymous
November 25, 2008
That thing that is not coming to you may seem good. But either the timing is wrong, or from His position He can see that the future of it is bleak. I have always believed that people who thank God only for delivering them from what happened are just scraping the surface of praise. The real praise comes when you start thanking Him for what could have happened but didn't because of His swift grace!
T. D. Jakes
Website
November 26, 2008
The most important prayer in the world is just two words long: "Thank you"
Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
November 27, 2008
Very often when I haven't faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply can't. I have to rise to His faith in me. A woman who was inwardly collapsed said to me, "Well, I have no faith of my own, but I do have faith in your faith." "Good," I replied, "take faith in my faith as a first step, and then you will go on to something infinitely better - faith in His faith." With faith in His faith you can do anything- anything that ought to be done. There is a passage which touches your need. "For the Eternal... will not let you go." Faith is not merely your holding on to God; it is God holding on to you. He will not let you go! As Walt Whitman puts it, "Not until the sun refuses to shine, do I refuse you." Then keep saying to your soul, "In quietness and in confidence shall be your faith." (Isaiah 30:15). Then repeat to your soul these words: "To say what ought to be cannot be is a brief and complete statement of atheism." It is. Say to yourself, "What ought to be can be, and I will make it so." And you will. And will go beyond yourself.
Eli E. Stanley Jones
Biography
November 28, 2008
The Lord is my shepherd," is on Sunday, is on Monday, and is through every day of the week; is in January, is in December, and every month of the year; is at home, and is in China; is in peace, and, is in war; in abundance, and in penury.
James Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor Biography
November 29, 2008
When the Word dwells as a familiar friend in the heart to direct, counsel and comfort us, then it is a sign it abides there. The devil knows good and hates it, therefore knowledge alone is nothing; but when the promise alters the temper of the heart itself, then it is engrafted there.
Richard Sibbes
Brief Biography and Article
November 30, 2008
Compassion means to suffer with, to live with those who suffer. When Jesus saw the woman of Nain he realized, This is a widow who has lost her only son, and he was moved by compassion. He felt the pain of that woman in his guts. He felt her pain so deeply in his spirit that out of compassion he called the son to life so he could give that son back to his mother.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Nouwen Centre
