I render thanks to our Lord for having relieved you a little, according to your desire. I have been often near expiring, but I never was so much satisfied as then. Accordingly, I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love. Ah, how sweet it is to suffer with God! However great the sufferings may be, receive them with love.
Taken from the book The Practice of the Presence of God
by Brother Lawrence 1614-1691
An unmortified lust will drink up the spirit and all the vigour of the soul, and weaken it for all duties.
Taken from the book The Mortification of Sin by John Owen 1656
We Don't Need Education to Teach Us How to See - DL Moody
Thank God, we don't need education to teach us how to see. A four-year-old child cannot read, but can see. When the father is coming home, the mother says to her child, "Look! look! look! and the little child learns to see even before he is a year old. That is the way to be saved. It is to look at the Lamb of God" who taketh away the sin of the world". There is life this moment for everyone who is willing to see.
Taken from the book The Way to God by DL Moody 1837-1899
Satan, like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
Thomas Adams 1583-1652
What health is to the heart, that holiness is to the soul.
John Flavel 1628-1691
It is an old saying, Repentance is never too late;
but it is a true saying, Repentance is never too soon.
Henry Smith 1560-1591
Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.
DL Moody 1837-1899
I preached as never sure to preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men.
To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.
John Flavel 1627-1691
Taken from the book The Secret Key To Heaven by Thomas Brooks 1665
Weak souls, remember this: as Joseph sent chariots to bring his father and brethren to him, (Gen 45) so God would have your weak graces to be as chariots to bring you to himself, who is the cherisher, strengthener, and increaser of grace.
Taken from the book Heaven on Earth: A Treatise on Christian Assurance
by Thomas Brooks 1654
The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's Word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belying the truth. He needs his brother man as a bearer and proclaimer of the divine word of salvation. He needs his brother solely because of Jesus Christ. The Christ in his own heart is weaker than the Christ in the word of his brother, his own heart is uncertain, his brother's is sure.
Taken from the book Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1939
If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning,
He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.
E. M. Bounds 1835-1913
