June Quotes

Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace. 

-David Brainerd

There is nothing you can do to make God love you more, and there is nothing you can do to make Him love you less.

-Unknown

I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am. 

-John Newton

Elijah was a man who walked by faith and not by sight, and walking by faith is not a mystical or nebulous thing but an intensely practical experience. Faith does more than rest upon the bare letter of Scripture: it brings the living God into a scene of death, and enables its possessor to endure by ‘seeing His who is invisible.’ Where faith is really in exercise, it looks beyond distressing and distracting circumstances and is occupied with Him who regulates all circumstances. …Faith looks beyond the promise to the Promiser, and God never fails those who trust alone in Him and rely fully upon Him.

-A.W. Pink

A servant of God has but one Master. 

-George Mueller

It is not powerful men, strong men, valiant men who make headway in the kingdom. It is desperate men who have nothing and only hope is in Christ.

-Paul Washer

The human heart doesn’t like taking orders from the mind. The time will come for all of us when we won’t feel like doing the godly, responsible thing we’ve resolved to do. The question is, how will we respond when our hearts lead a full-scale rebellion? If we don’t prepare ourselves for an uprising, we’ll feel tempted to abandon our principles and standards.

-Joshua Harris

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure. 

 -Louisa May Alcott

As I went down from the present peak into the valley between the mountains, I was often shadowed by the very peak I had been enjoying. This I interpreted in a sense of failure and this often led to despair. I felt I was going down into the ‘slough of despond’. I see now that I was wrong in this ‘feeling’. The going down was merely an initial moving forward towards the next higher ground, never a going back to base level. The shadow was only relative after the brightness of the sun; the valley could provide rest for working out the experiences previously learnt, a time for refreshment before the next hard climb. Had I understood this meaning of the sunshine and shadow in my life rather than interpreting my experiences along life’s ways as ‘up’ and ‘down’, I might have saved myself many deep heartaches. 

-Helen Roseveare

I shall rise from the dead...I shall see the Son of God, the Sun of Glory, and shine myself as that sun shines. I shall be united to the Ancient of Days, to God Himself, who had no morning, never began...No man ever saw God and lived. And yet, I shall not live till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die. 

-John Donne

There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.

-William Wilberforce

I will charge my soul to believe and wait for Him, and will follow His providence, and not go before it, nor stay behind it.

-Samuel Rutherford