A. B. Simpson

Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus.

Robert Murray M’Cheyne

... rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company?
http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpmcheyne.html

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Consistent Christian living substantiates your testimony and gives credibility to your witness.

I. R. Ilingworth

Christianity refuses to be proved first and practised afterwards; it's practise and proof go hand in hand.

C. C. Colton

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy. How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

Stormie Omartian

Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free.
http://www.stormieomartian.com/

Augustine

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundations.
http://www.ccel.org/a/augustine/

Alan Redpath

Let us learn this lesson from Nehemiah: you never lighten the load unless first you have felt the pressure in your own soul. You are never used of God to bring blessing until God has opened your eyes and made you see things as they are.
http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/GUIDES/238.htm

Thomas Merton

If we can, by God's grace, turn ourselves entirely to Him, and put aside everything else in order to speak with Him and worship Him, this does not mean that we can always imagine Him or feel His presence. Neither imagination nor feeling are required for a full conversion of our whole being to God. Nor is intense concentration on an idea of God especially desirable. Hard as it is to convey in human language, there is a very real and very recognizable (but almost entirely undefinable) Presence of God, in which we confront Him in prayer knowing Him by Whom we are known, aware of Him Who is aware of us, loving Him by Whom we know ourselves to be loved.

R. C. Sproul

The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in.