Watchman Nee
How we need the Lord to enlighten our eyes that we may comprehend afresh the importance of prayer and know anew its value. Furthermore, we must recognize that had Satan not deceived us we would not be neglecting prayer so much. We should therefore watch and discover therein all the various wiles of Satan. We will not allow him to delude us any more in relaxing in prayer.
Alan Redpath
Gold is poured into the furnace because it is gold and has to be refined; you do not put rubbish into that kind of furnace. Corn is threshed because it is corn, but you do not bother to do that with weeds. A diamond of exceptional beauty and quality is gong to undergo far more cutting than any other stone because the owner desires more of its beauty.
http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/GUIDES/238.htm#3
Author Unknown
Blessings hemmed with praise will not unravel.
G. Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
Christ is perfectly harmless so long as he is kept locked up in churches. There is always trouble when you let him out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Anketell_Studdert_Kennedy
Jonathan Edwards
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.
http://www.yale.edu/wje/index.html
William Law
As all types and figures in the Law were but empty shadows without the coming of Christ, so the New Testament is but a dead letter without the Holy Spirit in redeemed men as the living power of a full salvation.
Ignatius of Loyola
Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee as Thou deservest: To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed the wounds; To toil and not to seek for rest; To labor and not ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do Thy will.
http://www.ccel.org/i/ignatius/
Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Remember you are God's sword --His instrument-- I trust a chosen vessel unto Him to bear His name. In great measure, according to the purity and perfections of the instrument will be the success. It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.
http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpmcheyne.html
John Wesley
Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.
http://wesley.nnu.edu/
Author Unknown
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success quality for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude of the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.