For your Maker is your husband,
the Lord of hosts is his name.
(Isaiah 54:5)
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 6:23)
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
(2 Corinthians 4:6)
You have said, “Seek my face.”
My heart says to you,
“Your face, Lord, do I seek.”
(Psalm 27:8)
You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless till it finds its rest in you. (Augustine of Hippo)
He loves you too little, who loves anything together with you, which he loves not for your sake. (Augustine of Hippo)
Lord, Thou art fullness, I am emptiness:
Yet hear my heart speak in its speechlessness
Extolling Thine unuttered loveliness. (Christina Rossetti)
We are beggars: this is true. (Martin Luther)
One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving. (Amy Carmichael)
Day by day, dear Lord, of thee three things I pray:
To see thee more clearly
To love thee more dearly
To follow thee more nearly. (Richard of Chichester)
I offer my heart to you, O Lord, eagerly and earnestly. (John Calvin)
In the cross of Christ, as in a splendid theater, the incomparable goodness of God is set before the whole world. The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross, in which there was a wonderful change of things — the condemnation of all men was manifested, sin blotted out, salvation restored to men; in short, the whole world was renewed and all things restored to order. (John Calvin)
We are not sent to preach sociology but salvation; not economics but evangelism; not reform but redemption; not culture but conversion; not progress but pardon; not a new social order but a new birth; not revolution but regeneration; not renovation but revival; not resuscitation but resurrection; not a new organization but a new creation; not democracy but the gospel; not civilization but Christ; we are ambassadors, not diplomats. (Hugh Thomson Kerr)
The providence of God is like a Hebrew word — it can only be read backwards. (John Flavel)
The cross which is the object of faith, is also, by the power of the Holy Spirit, the cause of it. Sit down and watch the dying Saviour till faith springs up spontaneously in your heart. There is no place like Calvary for creating confidence. The air of that sacred hill brings health to trembling faith. (C.H. Spurgeon)
Our power in drawing men to Christ springs chiefly from the fullness of our personal joy in him, and the nearness of our personal communion with him. The countenance that reflects most of Christ, and shines most with his love and grace, is most fitted to attract the gaze of a careless, giddy world, and win restless souls from fascinations of creature love and creature-beauty. A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord. (Horatius Bonar)
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did, in his sleep — not screaming, like the passengers in his car. (Smart alec grandson)
