Tuesday, September 28, 2010

"There is a glory to your life that your Enemy fears, and he is hell-bent on destroying that glory before you act on it.  This part of the answer will sound unbelievable at first; perhaps it will sound too good to be true; certainly, you will wonder if it is true for you.  But once you begin to see with those eyes, once you have begun to know it is true from the bottom of your heart, it will change everything.  The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it." ---John Eldredge in Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive

"There is no question of your rights.  The stamp of the saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus." ---Oswald Chambers

"God knows who you are, where you are, and what His plans for you are. If you will but humbly acknowledge that He is in control, a shift will occur in your heart and in your outlook — sunshine will break through the dark clouds and your life will sprout with new purpose and great effectiveness." ---James Ryle

"Job's friends drove him deeper into despair by insisting that he deserved his suffering.  What Job needed was someone who could inspire him to hope again.  And that is really what we all need when we are down.  Like Job we need a friend who will crawl down into our hole with us and convince us there has got to be 'another morning,' and a brighter day." ---Walter Albritton in Life is Short So Laugh Often, Live Fully and Love Deeply

"Some people claim that we can be Christians without necessarily becoming disciples.  I wonder, then, why the last thing Jesus told us was to go into the world, making disciples of all nations, teaching them to obey all that He commanded?  You'll notice that He didn't add, 'But hey, if that's too much to ask, tell them to just become Christians—you know, the people who get to go to heaven without having to commit to anything." ---Francis Chan in Crazy Love