I am only a wick. With many of us it takes a long time to learn this lesson. It is only when the wick is soaked in oil that it can burn. If you wish for the fullness of the Spirit in order that your church should be crowded or people flock to hear you,… Continue reading Quoted: Dr. D.H. Dolman on Humility and Pride
Month: January 2009
Quoted: C. S. Lewis on God’s Best for Us
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us, we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
Quoted: Peppermint Patty on Complaining and Sympathy
You’ve never understood have you, Marcie, that when a person complains, he doesn’t want a solution, he wants sympathy!!
Quote on Defeat and Wisdom
One step backward does not mean you are defeated. It just means that you need to take a step forward again. But this time wiser.
The Touch of the Master’s Hand
It was battered and scarred, and the auctioneer Thought it sacrcely worth his while To waste much time on the old violin, But he held it up with a smile. “What am I bidden, good folk?” he cried, “Who’ll start the bidding for me? “A dollar – a dollar – then two, only two –… Continue reading The Touch of the Master’s Hand
Other Can… But You Can’t
If God has called you to be really like Jesus, He will draw you into a life of crucifixion and humility, and put upon you such demands of obedience, that you will not be able to follow other people, or measure yourself by other Christians, and in many ways He will seem to let other… Continue reading Other Can… But You Can’t
Quoted: Ron Wofford on Principles
Sometimes standing for principles is going to cost you something. But not near as much as it will eventually cost you if you do not stand for them.
Quoted: Dwight L. Moody on Sin
The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
Whinnie the Pooh’s Ministry Guide
We can find sound advice in the most unlikely of places sometimes, can’t we? Winnie the Pooh himself will tell you he is a “bear of little brain,” but he also has an uncommon, clear-eyed wisdom. Because of Pooh’s thoughtfulness for his friends (which comes second only to hunny), he would likely make a pretty… Continue reading Whinnie the Pooh’s Ministry Guide
Quoted: Oswald Chambers on the Motive of Service
Whenever success is made the motive of service, infidelity to our Lord is the inevitable result…The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.