The characteristics in human nature that we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The foremost quality of a trusting disciple is gratefulness.
Brennan Manning
Ruthless Trust
Why does God allow us to spend so much of life in the heat of battle? Because He never meant for us to sip His Spirit like a proper cup of tea. He meant for us to hold our sweating heads over the fountain and lap up His life with unquenchable thirst.
Beth Moore
- Praying God's Word
Satan's sole purpose in life is to ruin us - but God's sole purpose in life is to redeem us.
Anne Jackson
- Mad Church Disease
Lack of prayer translates into lack of peace no matter how knowledgeable we are about the Bible
Jim Cymbala
- Breakthrough Prayer
Do not be surprised that what God asked of you yesterday is insufficient for your journey of faith today.
Erwin McManus
- Seizing Your Divine Moment
Ask me not where I live and what I like to eat. Ask me what I am living for and what I think is keeping me from living fully for that.
Thomas Merton
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C.S. Lewis
Ministry is not a call to lead, but to die.
Francis Frangipane
The Cup Devotional
To live without risk is to risk not living.
As quoted by Brennan Manning
Ruthless Trust
Many of us claim and worship God, but we've come to accept a lifestyle that depends upon most everything else. And whatever we depend upon we will most definitely serve.
Kelly Minter
No Other Gods
Sin has the stench of death about it. Why would anyone choose it?
Philip Yancey
What's So Amazing About Grace?
I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
Dorothy Day
Of one hundred men, one will read the Bible; the ninety-nine will read the Christian.
Dwight L. Moody
The greatest opportunities require the highest risk. If we want to live life to the fullest, we must be willing to trust God and risk everything.
Erwin McManus
Seizing Your Divine Moment
It requires heroic courage to trust in the love of God no matter what happens to us.
-Brennan Manning
Ruthless Trust
Grace costs nothing for the recipients but everything for the giver.
-Philip Yancey
What's So Amazing About Grace?
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
-Luke 2:14
To follow God, you will have to walk by faith, and faith always requires action.
-Henry Blackaby
Experiencing God
How must God feel every Sunday when, all over the nation, so many people gather in churches but do so little actual praying?
-Jim Cymbala
Fresh Faith
Grace only exists where someone is paying the price, not where error is overlooked.
-Udo Middleman
The Creator arranged things so that we need each other.
-Basil of Caesarea
I am convinced the great tragedy is not the sins that we commit, but the life that we fail to live.
-Erwin McManus
Seizing Your Divine Moment
The rest of God is not cessation from activity, but peace within the toil . . .
-Louis Evans
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.
-Horace Mann
If we don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the Glory of God, it is not because we have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because we have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Our soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.
-John Piper
A Hunger for God
I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time.
-Donald Miller
Blue Like Jazz
Struggle makes us stronger; it builds us up and deepens our faith. But this result is achieved only when we face the struggle head on, not when we run from it.
-Gary Thomas
Sacred Marriage
Who knows what prayers offered in faith by those who have gone before us are yet unanswered.
-Iain Murray
We have to get into the habit of carefully listening to God about everything, forming the habit of finding out what He says and heeding it. If, when a crisis comes, we instinctively turn to God, we will know that the habit has been formed in us.
-Oswald Chambers
My Utmost for His Highest
Retreating from the world, many Christians seek cover inside their church buildings, wagging their fingers at the "secular ownership" of the social landscape and receiving petty satisfaction in saying, "This little part still belongs to us."
-Ravi Zacharias
Deliver Us From Evil
"There is nothing, no circumstance, no trouble, no testing that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has come past God and past Christ, right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose."
-Alan Redpath
"Aim at heaven and you will get
earth thrown in. Aim at earth
and you get neither. "
C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity
"God is interested in your prayers because he is interested in you."
Bill Hybels
Too Busy Not To Pray
"Deep silence leads us to realize that prayer is, above all, acceptance."
Henri J.M. Nouwen
With Open Hands
"No matter how thoroughly the devil messes up a life - no matter how early in childhood he starts - God can take back this stolen property."