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
Category: PASSION Quotes
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
Classic Quote
Be killing sin or it will be killing you.
– John Owen
Classic Quote
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
Abundantly
This is profound consolation for us as we find ourselves time and again wandering away from the Father, looking for soul calm anywhere but in his embrace and instruction. Returning to God in fresh contrition, however ashamed and disgusted with ourselves, he will not tepidly pardon. He will abundantly pardon. He does not merely accept us. He sweeps us up in his arms again.
– Dane Ortlund in Gentle and Lowly
Infinite
Christianity is not about coming to God so that he can direct us to something or someone better than himself, some other thing that will make us ultimately happy. No, God himself is the one in whom all our joy, pleasure, and happiness are found. If we are made for infinite happiness – and that is what every person in the world is groping after – then the only place one will find it is in the one, and only one, who is infinite.
– Matthew Barrett in None Greater
To The Uttermost
Our sinning goes to the uttermost. But his saving grace goes to the uttermost. And his saving always outpaces and overwhelms our sinning, because he always lives to intercede for us.
– Dane Ortlund in Gentle and Lowly
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