Favorite Quotes About the Christian Walk
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for. -Laura Ingalls Wilder
I will meditate on Your precepts and fix my eyes on Your ways. I will delight in Your statues; I will not forget Your word. -Psalm 119:15-16
We are all missionaries. Wherever we go we either bring people nearer to Christ or we repel them from Christ. -Eric Liddell
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. -Romans 12:2
"In everything," that is not merely when the house is on fire, not merely when the beloved wife and children are on the brink of the grave, but in the smallest matters of life, bring everything before God, the little things, the very little things, what the world calls trifling things -- everything -- living in holy communion with our Heavenly Father, arid with our precious Lord Jesus all day long. And when we awake at night, by a kind of spiritual instinct again turning to Him, and speaking to Him, bringing our various little matters before Him in the sleepless night, the difficulties in connection with the family, our trade, our profession. Whatever tries us in any way, speak to the Lord about it. -from Streams in the Desert April 14
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. -2 Corinthians 5:17
We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be within us. - C.S. Lewis
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. -Romans 14:1
Lord of all power, I give You my will,
In joyful obedience Your tasks to fulfill.
Your bondage is freedom; Your service is song;
And held in Your keeping, my weakness is strong.
-J. C. Winslow
One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple. -Psalm 27:4
If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think of as my strong points; if I adopt a superior attitude, forgetting "Who made thee to differ? And what hast thou that thou hast not received?" then I know nothing of Calvary love. –Amy Carmichael
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. –Proverbs 4:23
Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterward. Begin the day with God.
-Hudson Taylor
That is why we are not discouraged. Though outwardly we are wearing out, inwardly we are renewed day by day. Our suffering is light and temporary and is producing for us an eternal glory that is greater than anything we can imagine. We don't look for things that can be seen but for things that can't be seen. Things that can be seen are only temporary. But things that can't be seen last forever. - 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
The one thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision. –Helen Keller
Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. -1 Corinthians 13:12
Obedience is the secret of guidance. Every Christian should live a God-guided life. If you are not guided by God, you will be guided by something else. The Christian that doesn't know this sense of guidance in his life is missing something vital. Take obedience with you into your prayer hour, for you will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice. –Eric Liddell
Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy in his dwelling place. Ascribe to the LORD, O families of nations, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength, ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name. Bring an offering and come before him; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness. -Deuteronomy 16:27-29
The remedy for discouragement is the Word of God. When you feed your heart and mind with its truth, you regain your perspective and find renewed strength. -Warren Wiersbe
Give to the LORD the glory due His name; Bring an offering, and come before Him. Oh, worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness! -1 Chronicles 16:29
If I Forget, Yet God Remembers
If I forget,
Yet God remembers! If these hands of mine
Cease from their clinging, yet the hands divine
Hold me so firmly that I cannot fall;
And if sometimes I am too tired to call
For Him to help me, then He reads the prayer
Unspoken in my heart, and lifts my care.
God, Thou art love! I build my faith on that.
I know Thee who has kept my path, and made
Light for me in the darkness, tempering sorrow
So that it reached me like a solemn joy;
It were too strange that I should doubt Thy love.
-Robert Browning
The ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. -Isaiah 51:11
It is a great deal better to live a holy life than to talk about it. Lighthouses do not ring bells and fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine. -D.L. Moody
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness. - Psalm 29:2
A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in the process of becoming. -Martin Luther
But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. -John 4:23
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell. -C. S. Lewis
You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. -Psalm 63:1-3
Let us not be surprised when we face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch & grow stronger. –Amy Carmichael
Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.
-Psalm 119:133
Regarding Bible readings: Read accurately, interpret honestly, apply drastically. –Eric Liddell
I will meditate on Your precepts and fix my eyes on Your ways. I will delight in Your statues; I will not forget Your word. -Psalm 119:15-16
We are all missionaries. Wherever we go we either bring people nearer to Christ or we repel them from Christ. -Eric Liddell
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. -Romans 12:2
"In everything," that is not merely when the house is on fire, not merely when the beloved wife and children are on the brink of the grave, but in the smallest matters of life, bring everything before God, the little things, the very little things, what the world calls trifling things -- everything -- living in holy communion with our Heavenly Father, arid with our precious Lord Jesus all day long. And when we awake at night, by a kind of spiritual instinct again turning to Him, and speaking to Him, bringing our various little matters before Him in the sleepless night, the difficulties in connection with the family, our trade, our profession. Whatever tries us in any way, speak to the Lord about it. -from Streams in the Desert April 14
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. -2 Corinthians 5:17
We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be within us. - C.S. Lewis
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. -Romans 14:1
Lord of all power, I give You my will,
In joyful obedience Your tasks to fulfill.
Your bondage is freedom; Your service is song;
And held in Your keeping, my weakness is strong.
-J. C. Winslow
One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple. -Psalm 27:4
If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think of as my strong points; if I adopt a superior attitude, forgetting "Who made thee to differ? And what hast thou that thou hast not received?" then I know nothing of Calvary love. –Amy Carmichael
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. –Proverbs 4:23
Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterward. Begin the day with God.
-Hudson Taylor
That is why we are not discouraged. Though outwardly we are wearing out, inwardly we are renewed day by day. Our suffering is light and temporary and is producing for us an eternal glory that is greater than anything we can imagine. We don't look for things that can be seen but for things that can't be seen. Things that can be seen are only temporary. But things that can't be seen last forever. - 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
The one thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision. –Helen Keller
Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. -1 Corinthians 13:12
Obedience is the secret of guidance. Every Christian should live a God-guided life. If you are not guided by God, you will be guided by something else. The Christian that doesn't know this sense of guidance in his life is missing something vital. Take obedience with you into your prayer hour, for you will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice. –Eric Liddell
Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy in his dwelling place. Ascribe to the LORD, O families of nations, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength, ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name. Bring an offering and come before him; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness. -Deuteronomy 16:27-29
The remedy for discouragement is the Word of God. When you feed your heart and mind with its truth, you regain your perspective and find renewed strength. -Warren Wiersbe
Give to the LORD the glory due His name; Bring an offering, and come before Him. Oh, worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness! -1 Chronicles 16:29
If I Forget, Yet God Remembers
If I forget,
Yet God remembers! If these hands of mine
Cease from their clinging, yet the hands divine
Hold me so firmly that I cannot fall;
And if sometimes I am too tired to call
For Him to help me, then He reads the prayer
Unspoken in my heart, and lifts my care.
God, Thou art love! I build my faith on that.
I know Thee who has kept my path, and made
Light for me in the darkness, tempering sorrow
So that it reached me like a solemn joy;
It were too strange that I should doubt Thy love.
-Robert Browning
The ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. -Isaiah 51:11
It is a great deal better to live a holy life than to talk about it. Lighthouses do not ring bells and fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine. -D.L. Moody
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness. - Psalm 29:2
A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in the process of becoming. -Martin Luther
But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. -John 4:23
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell. -C. S. Lewis
You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. -Psalm 63:1-3
Let us not be surprised when we face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch & grow stronger. –Amy Carmichael
Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.
-Psalm 119:133
Regarding Bible readings: Read accurately, interpret honestly, apply drastically. –Eric Liddell