proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
Christian Character
Dan McCollam
David didn’t need a throne to act like a king. Before he ever sat on a throne, he defended territories. He built and led an army. He counseled with dignitaries; he expanded the kingdom borders and he distributed spoils of war. David did everything a king is supposed to do without a throne or position. Likewise, train for where you want to reign.
Ann Spangler
While the Gospels record many instances of Jesus instantly healing people’s illnesses, we know of not even one instance in which he simply waved his hand to immediately fix an ugly habit for one of his disciples. Instead, he simply kept teaching and correcting them, giving them time to grow. God seems to work like this much of the time in our own lives. He lets our weaknesses and difficulties drive us to himself, keeping us close. Miracles happen, but the inner transformation we so desperately desire can only be achieved over time. God seems to prefer it this way, perhaps because he knows we can only become like him by maintaining a constant close connection.
Francis de Sales
We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to colour everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mould, but these are the most continually called for in daily life.
Thomas Chalmers
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot radiating his dark influence outward to the very circumference of society, or he may be a blessing spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world. But a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.
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Elisabeth Elliot
Steadfastness, that is holding on;
Patience, that is holding back;
Expectancy, that is holding the face up;
Obedience, that is holding one’s self in readiness to go or do;
Listening, that is holding quiet and still as to hear.
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Don Francisco
So you say you can’t take it, the price is too high. The feelings are gone it seems the rivers run dry. You never imagined it could turn out so rough. You give and give and give and still it’s never enough. Your emotions have vanished that once held a thrill, you wonder if love could be alive in you still. But that ring on your finger was put there to stay, you’ll never forget the words you promised that day. Jesus didn’t die for you because it was fun, He hung there for love because it had to be done, and in spite of the anguish his word was fulfilled, cause love is not a feeling it’s an act of your will.
N T Wright
Training in godliness is emphatically not what people today expect or want to hear. We expect and want to be told that “spirituality” is simply the sense I have of being in God’s presence, being surrounded with his love, sensing a transcendent dimension in the affairs of everyday life. It comes as a shock to be told that it’s something you have to work at-and something, moreover, which will take the same kind of hard work as going into training for athletics.
Henry M Stanley
When Stanley went out in 1871 and found Livingstone, he spent some months in his company but Livingstone never spoke to him about spiritual things. Throughout those months Stanley watched the old man. Livingstone’s habits were beyond his comprehension and so was his patience. He could not understand Livingstone’s sympathy for the Africans. For the sake of Christ and His gospel the missionary doctor was patient, untiring, eager, spending himself and being spent for his master. Stanley wrote, “When I saw that unwearied patience, that unflagging zeal, those enlightened sons of Africa, I became a Christian at his side, though he never spoke to me about it.”