 I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words. Author: Albert Schweitzer
Topics: Service, Work |
| The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Faith |
| Faith does not grasp a doctrine, but a heart. The trust which Christ requires is the bond that unites souls with Him; and the very life of it is entire committal of myself to Him in all my relations and for all my needs, and absolute utter confidence in Him as all sufficient for everything that I can require. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Faith, Commitment |
| Faith has in it the recognition of the certainty and the justice of a judgment that is coming down crashing on every human head; and then from the midst of these fears and sorrows and the tempest of that great darkness there rises up in the night of terrors the shining of one perhaps pale, quivering, distant, but divinely given hope, "My Saviour! My Saviour! He is righteous; He has died; He lives! I will stay no longer; I will cast myself upon Him! Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Faith |
| If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like that," then I know nothing of Calvary love. Author: Amy Carmichael
Topics: Gossip |
| God, harden me against myself! Author: Amy Carmichael
Topics: Self-love |
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| May not a single moment of my life be spent outside the light, love and joy of God's presence and not a moment without the entire surrender of myself as a vessel for Him to fill full of His Spirit and His love. Author: Andrew Murray
Topics: Surrender |
Nothing can work me damage, except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
- Bernard of Clairvaux Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Suffering |
| Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee. Author: Augustine
Topics: Worship |
| If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: Mere Christianity
Topics: Eternity |
| Does loving your enemy mean not punishing him? No, for loving myself does not mean that I ought not subject myself to punishment-even to death. If you had committed a murder, the right Christian thing to do would be to give yourself up to the police and be hanged. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Murder, Enemies |
| I know not what He is about to do with me, but I have given myself entirely into His hands. Author: Catherine Booth
Topics: Faith |
| Born, as all of us are by nature, an Arminian, I still believed the old things I had heard continually from the pulpit, and did not see the grace of God. When I was coming to Christ, I thought I was doing it all myself, and though I sought the Lord earnestly, I had no idea the Lord was seeking me. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Sermon, A Defense of Calvinism.
Topics: Grace |
| I am never ashamed to avow myself a Calvinist; I do not hesitate to take the name of Baptist; but if I am asked what is my creed, I reply, "It is Jesus Christ." Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Christian History, n. 29.
Topics: Religion |
| I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite certain that, if God had not chosen me, I should never have chosen Him; and I am sure He chose me before I was born, or else He never would have chosen me afterwards; and He must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why He should have looked upon me with special love. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Sermon, A Defense of Calvinism.
Topics: Doctrine, Grace |
| I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself." My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Grace |
| I find myself frequently depressed - perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Depression, Trust |
| I must confess that I never realize Christ's preciousness so much as when I feel myself still to be, apart from Him, an undeserving, hell-deserving sinner. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Sin |
| I well remember how I joined the church after my conversion. I forced myself into it by telling the pastor, who was lax and slow, after I had called four or five times and could not see him, that I had done my duty, and if he did not see me and interview me for church membership, I would call a church meeting myself and tell them I believed in Christ and ask them if they would have me. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Charles Spurgeon at His Best
Topics: Church |
| If Christ has died for me - ungodly as I am, without strength as I am - then I can no longer live in sin, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. I must be holy for his sake. How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it? Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Service, Holiness |
| I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Pride |
| There is no man living that can do the work that God has got for me to do. No one can do it but myself. And if the work ain't done we will have to answer for it when we stand before God's bar. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Faithful, Service |
| Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself. Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Topics: Prayer, Comfort |
| While I disparage the exercise of "building one's self-esteem" I indulge in it every time I imagine myself free from the defects I perceive in someone else. Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Source: Secure in the Everlasting Arms, Revell, 2002
Topics: Hypocrisy |
| I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people. In fact, I have discovered that it pleases Him to hide His manifold wisdom in a variety of people and denominational perspectives. I know that the more I humble myself to others, the broader my understanding of God has actually become. Author: Francis Frangipane
Topics: Humility |
| Can I connect all the sorrows of the wilderness with Christ's glory? Have I set up as my banner, "To me to live is Christ"? Do I devote myself and all I have to Christ's glory, turning everything into an occasion for magnifying Him? Author: G.V. Wigram
Topics: Surrender |
| Faith is an individual thing--it is God and myself. If God has spoken to me, I have received the word, and do it I must, whether men bear or forbear. The one who receives the word has to yield himself to God. Author: G.V. Wigram
Topics: Faith |
| If I have but enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself and them; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others. Author: George Herbert
Topics: Stewardship |
| There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God. Author: George Mueller
Topics: Repentance |
| I seek the will of the Spirit of God through or in connection with the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also. Author: George Mueller
Topics: Holy Spirit, Scripture |
| Oh, how very kind and good my heavenly Father has been to me! I have no aches or pains, no rheumatism, and now in my ninety-third year I can do a day's work at the orphan houses with as much ease and comfort to myself as ever. Author: George Mueller
Topics: Grace, Gratitude, Comfort |
| I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God. Author: Helen Keller
Topics: Patience, Work |
| I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Author: Isaac Newton
Topics: Ignorance |
| In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor. Author: Isaac Watts
Topics: Friendship, Giving |
| If I never spoke of hell, I should think I had kept back something that was profitable, and should look on myself as an accomplice of the devil. Author: J.C. Ryle
Topics: Hell |
| He sees all the twisted things about me that my fellow-men do not see (and I am glad!), and that He sees more corruption in me than that which I see in myself (which, in all conscience, is enough). Author: J.I. Packer
Topics: Humility, Sin |
| I saw myself standing outside a house looking in on a tremendous party with laughter and joy. The Lord tracked me down and found me. I was surprised by grace. I became an avid Bible reader and my initial doubts soon evaporated in the atmosphere of solid Bible exposition at the Christian Union. Author: J.I. Packer
Source: Surprised by Grace in More than Conquerors, ed. John D. Woodbridge, Moody, 1992, p. 317.
Topics: Grace |
| I cannot love you as I love myself until I love God as I ought to love Him. Author: Jack Hyles
Topics: Love |
| I can say as to myself, that I have been assailed on all sides, and have scarcely been able to enjoy repose for a single moment, but have always had to sustain some conflict either from enemies without or within the church. Author: John Calvin
Source: Preface to the Commentary on the Psalms.
Topics: Church |
| If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there first, to meet some I had not thought to see there second, to miss some I had expected to see there and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there. Author: John Newton
Topics: Heaven |
| Whenever you do judge, the only basis of judgment is not your own perspective or anything else, it's the very character and nature of God and that's why we are to allow Him to exercise His justice, where I personally want to take it upon myself. Author: Josh McDowell
Source: Attributes of God
Topics: Judging |
| Who are you helping most when you forgive the person who hurt you? Actually, you're helping yourself more than the other person. I always looked at forgiving people who hurt me as being really hard. I thought it seemed so unfair for them to receive forgiveness when I had gotten hurt. I got pain, and they got freedom without having to pay for the pain they caused. Now I realize that I'm helping myself when I choose to forgive. Author: Joyce Meyer
Topics: Forgiveness |
| Ah Lord! who seest the secrets of the heart, Thou knowest if I yet expect anything from myself, or if there be anything which I would refuse to Thee! Author: Madame Guyon
Topics: Humility, The Heart |
| Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between the justice of God and the statement that 'the just shall live by his faith.' Then I grasped that the justice of God is that righteousness by which through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us through faith. Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise. Author: Martin Luther
Topics: Faith, Justification |
| Whenever I see myself before God and realize something of what my blessed Lord has done for me at Calvary, I am ready to forgive anybody anything. I cannot withhold it. I do not even want to withhold it. Author: Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Topics: The Cross, Forgiveness |
| Praise lies upon a higher plain than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle around myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration, seeing and praising only the majesty and power of God, His grace and redemption. Author: Ole Hallesby
Topics: Praise |
| Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it. Author: Oswald Chambers
Topics: Prayer, Miracles, Morality |
| We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life - by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment. Author: Philip Yancey
Topics: God, Life |
| I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself. Author: Samuel Rutherford
Topics: Prayer |
| I can never experience the next realm of glory until I crucify myself. Author: T.D. Jakes
Topics: Obedience |
| Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself. Author: Thomas Brooks
Topics: Selfishness |
| To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. Author: Thomas Merton
Topics: Hell |
| The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error. Author: Thomas Merton
Topics: God, Truth |
| When a man has judged himself, Satan is put out of office. When he lays anything to a saint's charge, he is able to retort and say, "It is true, Satan, I am guilty of these sins, but I have judged myself already for them; and having condemned myself in the lower court of conscience, God will acquit me in the upper court of heaven. Author: Thomas Watson
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury
Topics: Judging |
| If I am content to go on in sin, I am an enemy, an adversary of God. Hell, not heaven, follows at the end of my life. I must not comfort myself in this state. I must repent! Author: Tom Wells
Source: Christian: Take Heart! 1987, p. 90.
Topics: Rebellion, Repentance |
| That strong self-assertive will of mine must go to the Cross, and I must give myself over wholly to the Lord. We cannot expect a tailor to make us a coat if we do not give him any cloth, nor a builder to build us a house if we let him have no building material; and in just the same way we cannot expect the Lord to live out His life in us if we do not give Him our lives in which to live. Without reservations, without controversy, we must give ourselves to Him to do as He pleases with us. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Obedience, The Cross |
| If I keep something it is because God has spoken to my heart; if I part with it it is for the same reason. I hold myself in the will of God and am not afraid to give if God asks me to give. I keep nothing because I love it, but let it go without regret when the call comes to leave it behind. That is what it means to be detached, free, separated to God. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Obedience |
| I make myself, in a host of ways, the center of the universe. Author: William Temple
Topics: Self-love |
