We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.
Sacrifice
C. S. Lewis
[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.
Jill Parr
Burn away what’s dead. Burn away the lies that you spend far too much time giving any attention to. They’re not true. They only have power over you if you believe them to be absolute. It’s okay. Let it burn. He makes beauty from ashes. He makes all things new.
Horatius Bonar
Turn your eye, the eye of faith, to the cross and see these two things – the crucifiers and the Crucified. See the crucifiers, the haters of God and of His Son. They are yourself. Read in them your own character. See the Crucified. It is God Himself; incarnate love. It is He who made you, God manifest in flesh, suffering, dying for the ungodly. Can you suspect His grace? Can you cherish evil thoughts of Him?
Rob Coscia
The most beautiful altars are made from the stones you‘ve asked God to remove from your heart.
Alan Redpath
We are prepared to serve the Lord only by sacrifice. We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done. May God give to us hearts that bleed, eyes that are wide open to see, minds that are clear to interpret God’s purposes, wills that are obedient, and a determination that is utterly unflinching as we set about the tasks He would have us do.
Ron Parrish
At the point that we give our life (to God), we gain it.
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Elisabeth Elliot
If God gave it to me,” we say “it’s mine. I can do what I want with it.” No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of – if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory.
Elisabeth Elliot
To love means to open ourselves to suffering. Shall we shut our doors to love, then and ‘be safe’?” That’s the only alternative, really. But locking ourselves up and never facing another person won’t fix what’s really going on in our souls.
John Owen
It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.