“Faith receiveth the promise, embraceth it, and comforteth the soul unspeakably with it. Faith is so great an artist in arguing and reasoning with the soul, that it will bring over the hardest heart that it hath to deal with. It will bring to my remembrance at once, both my vileness against God, and his goodness towards me; it will show me, that though I deserve not to breathe in the air, yet that God will have me an heir of glory.”
John Bunyan (11/28/1628 – 8/31/1688)
Jesus loves you
“Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening.
We must recognize that all things are in God and that God is in all things, and we must learn to be very attentive, in order to bear God speaking in His ordinary tone without any special accent.
A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees.
No one questions the need of times of formal address to God, but few admit in any practical way the need of quiet waiting upon God, gazing into His face, feeling for His hand, listening for His voice.
“I will hearken what the Lord God will say concerning me.” (PS 85:8)
God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation.”
Charles H. Brent
Follow Christ in the denial of all the wills of self, and then all is put away that separates you from God; the heaven born new creature will come to life in you, which alone knows and enjoys the things of God, and has his daily food of gladness in that manifold blessed, and blessed, which Christ preached on the mount.
William Law
God is good all the time!
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“I long to be filled with divine knowledge, divine wisdom, divine love, divine holiness, to the utmost extent of my capacity, I want to feel that all the currents of my soul are inter-fused in one channel deep and wide, and all flowing towards the heart of Christ.”
Griffith John (14 December 1831 – 25 July 1912)
Jesus loves you
