When I pray, coincidences happen,
and when I don’t, they don’t.
– William Temple
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Category: PASSION Quotes
Think Deeply
Working ceaselessly means you never have the chance to think deeply.
– Adam Mabry in The Art of Rest
The Busyness Hallucination
The worst hallucination busyness conjures is the conviction that I am God. All depends on me. How will the right thing happen at the right time if I’m not pushing and pulling and watching and worrying?
– Mark Buchanan in The Rest of God
One Greater
In prayer, you recognize that there is One greater than you and you are needful of His intervention in your life.
– Philip Nation in Habits for Our Holiness
The Need to Stop
God gave us regular, weekly times to stop in order to know (because we’re bound to forget) that it is God who is God, not us.
– Adam Mabry in The Art of Rest
True Prayer
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending His will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to His. It is by prayer that we seek God’s will, embrace it and align ourselves with it. Every true prayer is a variation on the theme “Thy will be done.”
– John Stott
Share the Awe
For God to stay his hand of judgment, to forgive and redeem rebellious sinners like us, would have been, in and of itself, a remarkable display of divine love, but our Lord went even further and made us his children! We dare not pass quickly over this point; we must ponder it until we share the awe and wonder of the apostle at this truth.
– Ray Van Neste in the ESV Expository Commentary, Volume 12
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Be killing sin or it will be killing you.
– John Owen
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I have a great need for Christ;
– Charles Spurgeon
I have a great Christ for my need.
All The Way
On the cross, we see what God did to satisfy his yearning for us. He went that far. He went all the way.
– Dane Ortlund in Gentle and Lowly
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