The love of God is peculiarly the work of the Holy Ghost… Therefore the way to get it is earnestly to pray…. We are no more able to love the Lord than cold water is able heat itself… so the holy Ghost must breed that fire of love in us, it must be kindled from heaven, or else we shall never have it.
John Preston 1587-1628
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. (Philippians 4:9 ESV)
It is well when a man can with advantage be so minutely copied as Paul might have been. Oh, for grace to imitate him this day and every day!
Taken from the book Faith's Checkbook by Charles Spurgeon 1834-1892
The Lord may not give gold, but He will give grace: He may not give gain, but He will give grace. He will certainly send us trial, but He will give grace in proportion thereto. We may be called to labor and to suffer, but with the call there will come all the grace required.
Taken from the book Faith's Checkbook by Charles Spurgeon 1834-1892
Praying and singing will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin or sin will choke prayer.
JC Ryle 1816-1900
It is never our earnestness that brings us into touch with God, but our Lord Jesus Christ's vitalizing death. (See Hebrews 10:19-23)
Taken from the book If You Will Ask by Oswald Chambers 1874-1917
