Quotes

Amy Carmichael

• "Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is."
• "One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving."
• "Give me the Love that leads the way, the Faith that nothing can dismay, the Hope no disappointments tire, the Passion that'll burn like fire. Let me not sink to be a clod, make me Thy fuel, Flame of God."
• "It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates."

Elisabeth Elliot

• "The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of christian, but the fact that I am a christian does make me a different kind of woman."
• "I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it."
• "Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself."
• "This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God's way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness."
• "We are women, and my plea is let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is."
• "God is God. Because He is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to."
• "There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for."
• "Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next."
• "One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime."
• "To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us though and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment."

Jim Elliot

• "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."
• "Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God."
• "Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheet excitement of knowing God on earth!"

Eric Ludy

• "We are here on this earth to know God intimately, fully, correctly, and contagiously; to house His holy person in our very bodies, allowing Him to showcase to the world around us His loving nature, His attitude, His thoughts, His emotions, and His actions through the way we live every moment of our lives.

Leslie Ludy

• "Only when self moves out of the way can His spectacular glory come cascading through your life. When Jesus is in His rightful place, all insecurity will fade away and His lasting loveliness will become the mark of your life."
• "Stop trying to fit Christ into your life; instead, build your life around Him."

J.R. Miller

• "Love is always ready to deny itself, to give, sacrifice, just in the measure of its sincerity and intensity. Perfect love is perfect self-forgetfulness. Hence where there is love in a home, unselfishness is the law. Each forgets self and lives for others."

John Piper

• "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him."
• "Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God."

Corrie Ten Boom

• "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."
• "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength."
• "Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see."
• "If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest."

Hudson Taylor

• "Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him."
• "God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply."

A.W. Tozer

• "Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God."
• "I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven."

Charles Spurgeon

• "Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with out years."
• "If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him."

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