"All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient."
-William Carey
"Oh this is reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And
we should not be satisfied until we are brought to this."
- George Muller
"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable
in you."
- C. S. Lewis
"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"
- Corrie Ten Boom
"Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to
trouble God is not to come at all."
- D.L. Moody
"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains:
it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
“All
God’s men are ordinary men made extraordinary
by
the matter He has given them.”
-Oswald
Chambers
“’I
have chosen you!’ Keep that note of greatness in your creed.
It
is not that you have got God but that He has got you.”
- Oswald Chambers
“In
exchange for our humility and willingness to accept
the
charity of God,
we
are given a kingdom. And a beggar’s kingdom is better
than
a proud man’s delusion.”
- Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz
“Worship
is giving God the best that He has given you.”
- Oswald Chambers
“If you are going on with God,
the only thing that is clear to you, and the only
thing God intends to be clear, is the way He deals with your
own soul."
-Oswald
Chambers
“The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings,
but a life of walking and not
fainting."
-Oswald
Chambers
“God
does not tell you what He is going to do;
He
reveals to you Who He is."
- Oswald Chambers
"If we have never had the experience
of
taking our commonplace religious
shoes off our
commonplace religious feet, and
getting rid
of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God,
it is questionable whether we have ever stood in His presence."
-Oswald Chambers
"God nowhere tells us to give up things
for the sake of giving them up.
He tells us to give them up
for the sake of the only thing worth having. . .
life with Himself."
-Oswald Chambers
"If we obey God it is going
to cost other people more
than it costs us, and that
is where the sting comes in.
If we are in love with
our Lord,
obedience
does not cost us anything,
it is a delight, but it costs those
who do not love Him a good
deal."
-Oswald Chambers
"We are not sent to battle for God,
but to be used by God in His battlings."
- Oswald Chambers
"The real test
of the saint is not preaching the gospel,
but washing
disciples' feet, that is, doing the things
that do not
count in the actual estimate of men
but count everything
in the estimate of God."
-Oswald Chambers
"As Christians we are not out for our
own cause at all,
we are out for the cause of God, which
can never be our cause.
We do not know what God is after, but
we have to maintain our relationship with Him whatever happens.
- Oswald Chambers
"Tell God you are ready to be offered,
and God will prove Himself to be all
you ever dreamed He would be."
-Oswald Chambers
"Never let your sense of failure corrupt
your new action."
- Oswald Chambers
"It is one thing to go on the lonely
way with dignified heroism, but quite another thing if the line mapped out for you by God means being a door-mat under other
people's feet. . . Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?
Some saints cannot do menial work and remain saints because it is beneath their dignity."
- Oswald Chambers
"If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ,
we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real."
- Oswald Chambers
"Let God fling you out, and do not go
until He does.
If you select your own spot, you will
prove an empty pod.
If God sows you, you will bring forth
fruit."
- Oswald Chambers
"Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. 'All my fresh springs
shall be in thee.'"
- Oswald Chambers
"When the darkness of dismay comes, endure
until it is over, because out of it will come that following of Jesus
which is an unspeakable joy."
- Oswald Chambers
"Take care lest you play the
hypocrite by spending all
your time trying to get others
right before you worship
God yourself."
- Oswald Chambers
"Beware of the inclination to dictate
to God as to what
you will allow to happen if you obey Him."
-Oswald Chambers
"Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and
inhaling the spirit of God."
-Edwin Keith
"Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer
is too small to be made into a burden."
- Corrie Ten Boom
"In worship, God imparts himself to us."
- C.S.Lewis
"His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness."
- Charles Stanley
"Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are
willing to be freed."
- Madeleine L'Engle
"As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having;
but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!"
- David Brainerd
"Give me the love that leads the way, the faith that nothing can
dismay, the passion that will burn like fire, let me not sink to be a clod; make me thy fuel, Flame of God."
-Amy Carmichael
