Quotes I Love


~ "I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize that He is able to carry out His will for me.  It does not matter where He places me, or how.  That is for Him to consider, not me, for in the easiest positions He will give me grace, and in the most difficult ones His grace is sufficient." -Hudson Taylor

~ “What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him.  Thus speaks every man and woman whose life has made more than a passing flicker in the spiritual realm.  It is the life that has no time for trifling that counts.” -Amy Carmichael

~"There would be no sense in asking 'why' if one did not believe in anything.  The word itself presupposes purpose.  Purpose presupposes a purposeful intelligence.  somebody has to be responsible.  It is because we believe in God that we address questions to Him.  We believe that He is Just and that He is love, but that belief is put to severe strain as we wrestle with our pains and perplexities with our position in His ordered universe." -Elizabeth Elliot
~ "If nothing else will do to sever me from my sins, Lord, send me such sore and trying calamities as shall awake me from earthly slumbers. It must always be best to be alive to thee, whatever be the quickening instrument." -Robert Murray McCheyne

~ "Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them." -Elizabeth Elliot

~ "There are three stages in the work of God: Impossible, difficult, done." - James Hudson Taylor

~  “If you would live in victory.…you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.” -Amy Carmichael

~ "The secret of contentment is in casting all your care upon Him and placing all your confidence in His ability to handle it." -Elizabeth Elliot

~ "God is too good to be unkind.  He is too wise to be confused.  If I cannot trace His hand, I can ALWAYS trace His heart." -Charles Spurgeon 

~ "When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him." -Elisabeth Elliot

~ "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him." -John Piper 

~ "The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention." -Jerry Bridges 

~ “Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.” -Charles Spurgeon 

~  "Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centered than God-centered. We are more concerned about our own "Victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sin grieve the heart of God. We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God." -Jerry Bridges

~ "You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.” —Amy Carmichael

~ "When tempted to ask God the "why" questions:  "In circumstances for which there is no final answer in the world, we have two choices: accept them as God's wise and loving choice for our blessing (This is called faith), or resent them as proof of His indifference, His carelessness, even His nonexistence (this is unbelief).  Finding fault with God is sharp temptation, especially when there is no one else to blame.  Yielding to that temptation leads to spiritual emptiness." -Elizabeth Elliot

~ "Life itself is vanishing fast. Make haste for eternity." -Robert Murray McCheyne

~ "Belief in Jesus Christ is total identity with Him. There is no such thing as partial belief or partial salvation. A person who does not totally commit himself to Christ disbelieves in Him, no matter how many positive things he may have to say about Him." -John MacArthur 

~ “Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.” -Charles Spurgeon

~ "The source of most of the problems people have in their Christian lives relates to two things: either they are not worshiping six days a week with their life, or they are not worshiping one day a week with the assembly of the saints. We need both." -John MacArthur 

~ "To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment."  -Elisabeth Elliot