Without Trials and Temptations

No man without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

 

John Bunyan 1628-1688

It is Not My Ability - Corrie Ten Boom

It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.

 

Corrie Ten Boom 1892-1983

Study the Word of God Diligently - William Gurnall

If you mean your hope of salvation should rise to any strength and solidity, study the word of God diligently. The Christian is bred by the word, and he must be fed by it.

 

William Gurnall 1617-1679

Our Idle Silences - JR Miller

Thomas Carlyle, that gifted author, when he passed the spot where he had last seen his wife alive, would bare his old head in wind or rain, his features wrung with bitter, unavailing sorrow. "Oh", he would say, "if I could see her but for five minutes, to assure her that I really cared for her throughout all that time! But she never knew it—she never knew it!"

We must give account for our idle silences as well as for our idle words.

 

Taken from the book Secrets of a Happy Home Life by J.R. Miller 1894

True Worship - Charles Spurgeon

All places are holy to holy people, and all engagements holy to holy men, if they do them with holy motives, lifting up their hearts to God. Whether a man swings the blacksmith's hammer or lays his hand to the plow, that which is done unto the Lord and not unto men is true worship.

 

Taken from the book Spurgeon on Praise Charles Spurgeon 1834-1892

 

Little Sins Multiplied

Little sins multiplied, become great. There is nothing less than a grain of sand - there is nothing heavier than the sand of the sea multiplied.

 

Taken from the book Smooth Stones taken from Ancient Brooks: Selections from the Writings of Thomas Brooks - Thomas Brooks 1608-1680

I Should Pray as a Child Asks - Andrew Murray

I should pray as a child asks his father, as simply and trustfully as a child asks for food.

 

Taken from the book 199 Treasures of Wisdom on Talking with God: Compiled from the Writings of Andrew Murray -Andrew Murray 1828-1917