You [Christian] have within you now all the elements that are necessary to make you all that the Father dreamed that you would be in Christ.
~ E. W. Kenyon (1867-1948)
Tag: Quotes
Poetic Prayer
As in poetry, so in prayer, the whole subject matter should be furnished by the heart, and the understanding should be allowed only to shape and arrange the effusions of the heart in the manner best adapted to answer the end designed. From the fullness of a heart overflowing with holy affections, as from a copious fountain, we should pour forth a torrent of pious, humble and ardently affectionate feelings; while our understandings only shape the channel and teach the gushing streams of devotion where to flow, and when to stop.
~ Edward Payson (1783-1827)
Difficult & Untried
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
~ G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
Melt The World
Kindness makes a person attractive. If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
~ Alexander MacLaren (1826-1910)
Peace & Quiet
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
~ Thomas a’ Kempis (1380-1471)
Embraced By Faith
Because all men be sinners and offenders against God, and breakers of His law and commandments, therefore can no man by his own acts, works, and deeds (seem they never so good) be justified, and made righteous before God: But every man of necessity is constrained to seek for another righteousness or justification, to be received at God’s own hands, that is to say, the forgiveness of his sins and trespasses, in such things as he hath offended. And this justification or righteousness, which we so receive of God’s mercy and Christ’s merits, embraced by faith, is taken, accepted, and allowed of God, for our perfect and full justification.
~ Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)
The Mightiest Weapon
Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands. It is the best weapon to use in every difficulty, and the surest remedy in every trouble. It is the key that unlocks the treasury of promises, and the hand that draws forth grace and help in time of need. It is the silver trumpet that God commands us to sound in all our necessity; it is the cry He has promised always to listen to.
~ J. C. Ryle (1816-1900)
The Comfort of The Cross
We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort – not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening, but in the more modern and baser sense of soothing sorrow, dulling pain, and drying tears – the comfort of the cushion, not the comfort of the Cross.
~ G. A. Studdert Kennedy (1883-1929)
Christ Cries “Mine!”
[T]here is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: “Mine!”
~ Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920)
His & Mine
It is astonishing that I should so be one with Christ, that all that He is becomes mine; and all that I am becomes His! His glory mine; my humiliation His! His righteousness mine; my guilt His! His joy mine; my sorrow His! His riches mine; my poverty His! His life mine; my death His!
~ Octavius Winslow (1808-1878)
A Prayer Life 