Today’s Quote – Anxiety (Elliot)

Elisabeth Elliot: Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now. (HT: Christianity Today)

Today’s Quote – Prayer (Ryle)

J. C. Ryle: “A Call to Prayer:” Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too. (HT: […]

Today’s Quote – Anxiety (Mueller)

George Mueller: The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith; and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Today’s Quote – Prayer (Mueller)

George Mueller: For more than half a century, I have never known one day when I had not more business than I could get through. For 40 years, I have had annually about 30,000 letters, and most of these have passed through my own hands. I have nine assistants always at work corresponding in German, […]

Today’s Quote – God’s family (Lloyd-Jones)

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Unsearchable Riches of Christ: …as Christians let us always remember that the Name that is on us is the Name of God, ‘from whom the whole family in heaven and on earth is named’. What matters is no longer the family of David, no longer this tribe or that tribe, no longer […]

Today’s Quote – Scripture (Galli)

Mark Galli, “Yawning at the Word:” Whenever the Bible is read, a hush should come over us. We should be inching toward the edge of our seats, leaning forward, turning our best ear toward the speaker, fearful we’ll miss a single word—the deeds and words and character of Almighty and Merciful God are being revealed! […]

Today’s Quote – Anxiety (Calvin)

John Calvin, quoted in John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine & Doxology: For what can be more awfully tormenting than to be constantly racked with doubt and anxiety? And we will never be able to arrive at a calm state of mind until we are taught to repose with implicit confidence in the providence […]

Today’s Quote – Self-Examination (Alexander)

J. W. Alexander, Remember Him: The greatest care is necessary in an affair so important as the examination of your state before God. You will naturally be reluctant to come to an unfavourable conclusion about this and so self-love combined with self-ignorance will expose you to the danger of self-deception. Earnestly endeavour to exercise a […]

Today’s Quote – Marriage

Christianity Today editorial, “Just Married?”: In the context of this privatized understanding of marriage, in which the institution is valued for its tax value and its health-insurance implications, it is no wonder that gay activists are making their bid for its benefits. If marriage is merely the private choice of two individuals to enter into […]

Today’s Quote – Holiness (Calvin)

John Calvin, quoted in John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, and Doxology: I call “piety” that reverence joined with love of God which the knowledge of his benefits induces. For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by his fatherly care, that he is the Author of their […]

Today’s Quote – Majesty (Pascal)

Blaise Pascal, Pensees: Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in us, and who lives our life: and do the greatest things as though they were little and easy, because of His omnipotence. (HT: CQOD)

Today’s Quote – Scripture (Luther)

Martin Luther: It is a sin and shame not to know our own book or to understand the speech and words of our God; it is a still greater sin and loss that we do not study languages, especially in these days when God is offering and giving us men and books and every facility […]

Today’s Quote – Sovereignty (Packer)

J. I. Packer, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God: There is abroad today a widespread suspicion that a robust faith in the absolute sovereignty of God is bound to undermine any adequate sense of human responsibility. Such a faith is thought to be dangerous to spiritual health because it breeds a habit of complacent inertia. In particular, it is […]

Today’s Quote – Priorities (Tozer)

A. W. Tozer, The Radical Cross: We Christians do so many things that are not really bad, they are just trivial. They are unworthy of us — much as if we discovered Albert Einstein cutting out paper dolls. Our minds may not be among the six greatest of the ages, but like Einstein’s, our minds […]

Today’s Quote – Gratitude (Piper)

John Piper, Future Grace: There are ways that gratitude helps bring about obedience to Christ. One way is that the spirit of gratitude is simply incompatible with some sinful attitudes. I think this is why Paul wrote, “There must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving […]