"Do you see that Savior there? He is hanging on the cross; there are his dear hands, pierced with nails, nailed to a tree, as if they were waiting for your tardy footsteps, because you would not come. Do you see his dear head there? It is hanging on his breast, as if he would lean over, and kiss your poor soul. Do you see his blood, gushing from his head, his hands, his feet, his side? It is running after you; because he knew that you would never run after it." | Spurgeon
"Sing, Christian, wherever you go; try, if you can, to wash your face every morning in a bath of praise. When you wake up in the morning, never seek out another human until you have first sought out your God; and after you have spent time with him, then seek out others with your face beaming with joy; carry a smile, for you will cheer up many a poor pilgrim by it." | Spurgeon
"Sometimes, when we are called to obey, the fear does not subside, and we are expected to move against the fear. One must choose to do it afraid." | E. Elliot
Pretty much all of Isaiah 58
"The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman. For I have accepted God's idea of me, and my whole life is an offering back to Him of all that I am and all that He wants me to be." ~Elisabeth Elliot
"Before the world, aye, before the sleepy, lukewarm, faithless, namby-pamby Christian world, we will dare to trust our God, we will venture our all for Him, we will live and we will die for Him, and we will do it with His joy unspeakable singing aloud in our hearts." ~C.T. Studd
"For God loves to be entreated, He loves to be compelled." ~Gregory Nazianzen
"How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God." ~Thomas Aquinas
"Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down." ~Reuben Archer Torrey
"History belongs to the intercessors -- those who believe and pray the future into being." ~Walter Wink
"The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray." ~Samuel Chadwick
"We want to live forever for the same reason that we want to live tomorrow. Why do we want to live tomorrow? It is because there is someone who loves you, and whom you want to see tomorrow, and be with, and love back." ~Henry Drummond
"You wonder why people choose fields away from the States when young people at home are drifting because no one wants to take time to listen to their problems. I'll tell you why I left. Because those Stateside young people have every opportunity to study, hear, and understand the Word of God in their own language, and these Indians have no opportunity whatsoever. I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man. When there is that much ignorance over here and so much knowledge and opportunity over there, I have no question in my mind why God sent me here. Those whimpering Stateside young people will wake up on the Day of Judgment condemned to worse fates than these demon-fearing Indians, because, having a Bible, they were bored with it---while these never heard of such a thing as writing." ~Jim Elliot
"My main ambition in life is to be on the devil's most wanted list." ~Leonard Ravenhill
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." ~Jim Elliot
"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible." ~Jane Austen
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
~C.S. Lewis
"You need someone, older and balder, telling you what to doooo!" ~My father, singing to my mother
"The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came." ~Reuben Archer Torrey
