Christian Quotes SearchFound 23 quotes matching your search:  Growth in grace is growth downward. It is the forming of a lower estimate of ourselves. It is a deepening realization of our nothingness. It is a heartfelt recognition that we are not worthy of the least of God's mercies. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Growth | | Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption. Author: Adoniram Judson
Topics: Prayer | Briars and thistles wither not so soon as lilies and roses. They may be taken out of the world, of whom the world is not worthy; and they remain behind, who are not worthy to live in the world.
- Christopher Love Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Death | | In the destiny of every moral being there is an object more worthy of God than happiness. It is character. And the grand aim of man's creation is the development of a grand character, and grand character is, by its very nature, the product of probationary discipline. Author: Austin Phelps
Topics: Happiness | | When the promised inheritance of heaven (which was figured by the pleasant land of promise), is not counted worthy of all the pains and difficulties which can be sustained and met with in the way of going toward it; the promised inheritance is but little esteemed of. Author: David Dickson
Topics: Heaven | | Once the necessity and the fruitfulness of the method is recognized, however, no worthy workman in the Word can refuse the effort it requires. He is called as a scribe of the kingdom to bring forth treasures new and old, and any labor that issues in a fuller preaching of Christ has its reward. Author: Edmund Clowney
Topics: Preaching, Rewards | |
| | God is God. Because He is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will, a will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to. Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Topics: God, Obedience, Trust | | False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought. Author: Frederick W. Robertson
Topics: Morality, Liberty | | Emulation is the devil-shadow of aspiration. To excite it is worthy only of the commonplace vulgar schoolmaster, whose ambition is to show what fine scholars he can turn out, that he may get the more pupils. Author: George Macdonald
Topics: Examples | | To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Topics: Virtue | | Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Author: Helen Keller
Topics: Happiness | | If a task is worthy of our attention, it is worthy of our best. Author: Jack Hyles
Topics: Excellence | | Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil. Author: John Calvin
Topics: Suffering, Fellowship | | Do not be despondent when fighting against the incorporeal enemy, but even in the midst of your afflictions and oppression praise the Lord, Who has found you worthy to suffer for Him, by struggling against the subtlety of the serpent, and to be wounded for Him at every hour; for had you not lived piously, and endeavored to become united to God, the enemy would not have attacked and tormented you. Author: John of Kronstadt
Topics: Affliction, Satan, Piety | | I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort me at the close of this life but this passage of St. Paul: "It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." To this I cleave, and herein do I find rest. Author: John Selden
Topics: Scripture, Salvation, Comfort | | The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrows currently assail us aren't worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon. Author: Joni Eareckson Tada
Topics: Life, Heaven | | Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom he gives nothing else. Author: Martin Luther
Topics: Finances, Gifts, Foolishness | | Agape is disinterested love. Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both. Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Topics: Love, Enemies | | God does not justify us because we are worthy, but by justifying us make us worthy. Author: Thomas Watson
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury
Topics: Justification | | Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy. Author: Thomas Watson
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury
Topics: Grace | | The apostles went away rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Christ, that they were graced so far as to be disgraced for the name of Christ! Author: Thomas Watson
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury
Topics: Persecution | | The God who is worthy to be known and served for who He is, is Himself the answer to this world's longings. And those who know Him best are best equipped to serve Him. He is their message. If we have discovered the glory of God in the face of Christ, we must not hold back. The God of glory must be made known. Author: Tom Wells
Source: A Vision for Missions, p. 152.
Topics: Service | | If you had a thousand crowns you should put them all on the head of Christ! And if you had a thousand tongues they should all sing his praise, for he is worthy!" Author: William Tiptaft
Topics: Jesus, Praise |
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Found 18 quotes containing your search: | The basic trouble with the church today is her unworthy concept of God... Our religion is weak because our God is weak... Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending on her concept of God. Author: A.W. Tozer
Source: The Attributes of God: a Journey into the Father's Heart.
Topics: Christianity | | The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. Author: A.W. Tozer
Topics: Idolatry | | If when I am able to discover something which has baffled others, I forget Him who revealeth the deep and secret things, and knoweth what is in the darkness and showeth it to us; if I forget that it was He who granted that ray of light to His most unworthy servant, then I know nothing of Calvary love. Author: Amy Carmichael
Topics: God, Light | | Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Grace | | As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end! Author: David Brainerd
Topics: Service | | But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus. Author: George Whitefield
Topics: Obedience | | Do not spoil your life at the outset with unworthy and impoverishing correspondences; and if it is growing truly rich and abundant, be very jealous of ever diluting its high eternal quality with anything of earth. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Natural Law, Mortification, p. 196.
Topics: Worldliness | | In the spiritual world ... he will be wise who courts acquaintance with the most ordinary and transparent facts of Nature; and in laying the foundations for a religious life he will make no unworthy beginning who carries with him an impressive sense of so obvious a truth as that without Environment there can be no life. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Natural Law, Environment, p. 264.
Topics: Wisdom | | As idle talk is often concealed under the garb of jesting, and wit, the Apostle Paul expressly condemns pleasantry, which is so agreeable as to seem a praiseworthy virtue, as a part of foolish talking. Author: John Calvin
Topics: Foolishness | | In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners. Author: John Calvin
Topics: Christ, Grace, Rewards | | When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man! Author: John Wesley
Topics: Christians, Giving, Prosperity | | Why God should choose the meanest, basest, most unworthy individuals with absolutely nothing to commend them at all to God, except their miserable, lost condition, and then exalt them to become the sons of God, members of the divine family, and use them for His glory, is beyond all reason and human understanding. Yet that is grace. Author: M.R. DeHaan
Topics: Salvation | | To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God. Author: Owen Feltham
Topics: Gratitude, Trust | | If we comprehend what Christ has done for us, then surely out of gratitude we will strive to live 'worthy' of such great love. We will strive for holiness not to make God love us but because He already does. Author: Philip Yancey
Source: What's So Amazing About Grace?
Topics: Gratitude, Holiness | | If every attribute of the Deity were a distinct member, holiness would be the soul to animate them. Without holiness His patience would be an indulgence to sin, His mercy a fondness, His wrath a madness, His power a tyranny, His wisdom an unworthy subtlety.Holiness gives decorum to them all. Author: Stephen Charnock
Topics: Holiness | | A person who wholly follows the Lord is one who believes that the promises of God are trustworthy, that He is with His people, and that they are well able to overcome. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Faith, Overcoming | | Look upon the unworthy worm before you. Let him be as your mouth in separating the precious from the vile. Grant that he may rightly divide the word of truth and rightly divide the hearers. Grant that he may exalt the Savior and lay the sinner low. Author: William Tiptaft
Topics: Humility | | It is indeed praiseworthy for a believer to consecrate his life to the Lord, but he must never do so lightly or thoughtlessly. Before committing your life in service to God today, count the cost, for "No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God" (Luke 9:62). Author: Woodrow Kroll
Topics: Service, Consecration |
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