Thursday, October, 21, 2010

"There is nothing thrilling about a laboring man's work, but it is the laboring man who makes the conceptions of the genius possible; and it is the laboring saint who makes the conceptions of his Master possible.  You labor at prayer and results happen all the time from His standpoint.  What an astonishment it will be to find, when the veil is lifted, the souls that have been reaped by you, simply because you had been in the habit of taking your orders from Jesus Christ." ---Oswald Chambers

"I am still persuaded much good will be done here, if we have zeal and patience." ---John Wesley, Monday, May 30, 1763

"We do need counseling.  All of us.  Jesus sends us his Spirit as Counselor; that ought to make it clear.  In fact, we apparently need quite a lot of counsel—the Spirit isn’t just stopping in to give us a tune-up; not even an annual checkup.  He has come to stay.” ---John Eldredge in Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive