Humility

Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less.

CS Lewis
Quoted by Jane Tooher in
P Bolt, Ed
Let the Word do the Work
Matthias Media
p132

The Child of God

The servant, with cap in hand, stands at a respectable distance awaiting the orders of his master; the child of God, as Luther has graphically suggested, rushes into the presence of his Father, leaps into his lap, and nestles in his bosom.

J Girardeau
Quoted in D Calhoun
Our Southern Zion
Banner of Truth
p287 

On Suffering

Should he choose to bless you with this mercy, receive it with humility, thanksgiving and joyful praise. Should he choose to withhold this mercy, endure with humility, thanksgiving and joyful praise.

S Blackwell
Briefing magazine #411
Mathias Media
p32

God

God cannot be seen because he is brighter than light. Nor can he be grasped because he is purer than touch. He cannot be measured, because he is greater than all perceptions of him. He is infinite and immense. His greatness is known to him alone. Our hearts are too limited to be able to understand him.... Anyone who thinks he knows the greatness of God is in fact diminishing his greatness.

M Felix

Quoted in G Bray

God has Spoken

Crossway

Kindle location 1533

The Wisdom of God

The wisdom of God has ordained a way for the love of God to deliver us from the wrath of God without compromising the justice of God.

J Piper
Quoted in D Beaty
An All-Surpassing Fellowship
Reformation Heritage Books
Kindle location 1849

The Comforter

I ought to study the Comforter more, - His Godhead, His love, His Almightiness. I have found by experience that nothing sanctifies me so much as meditating on the Comforter.... I ought never to forget that my body is dwelt in by the third Person of the Godhead. The very thought of this should make me tremble to sin.

RM M'Cheyne
Quoted in D Beaty
An All-Surpassing Fellowship
Reformation Heritage Books
Kindle location 1321

Prayer

Do not be discouraged, dearly beloved, because God bears long with you - because He does not seem to answer your prayers.When the merchant sends his ships to distant shores, he does not expect them to come back richly laden in a single day. He has great patience.... Perhaps your prayers will come back like the ships of the merchant - all the more heavily laden with blessings because of the delay.

RM M'Cheyne
Quoted in D Beaty
An All-Surpassing Fellowship
Reformation Heritage Books
Kindle location 504

Drowsiness

A Christian never falls asleep in the fire or in the water, but grows drowsy in the sunshine.

John Berridge
The Works of John Berridge
Simpkin, Marshall & Co
p396

Failure

When all else fails, pray? No! Pray, or all else will fail!

R Dodson
Unashamed Workmen
Mentor
p47

No Scar?

Hast thou no scar?
No hidden scar on foot, or side, or hand?
I hear thee sung as mighty in the land;
I hear them hail thy bright, ascendant star.
Hast thou no scar?

Hast thou no wound?
Yet I was wounded by the archers; spent,
Leaned me against a tree to die; and rent
By ravening beasts that compassed Me, I swooned.
Hast thou no wound?

No wound? No scar?
Yet, as the Master shall the servant be,
and pierced are the feet that follow Me.
But thine are whole; can he have followed far
Who hast no wound or scar?

Amy Carmichael
Quoted by Peter Adam in 
R Dodson
Unashamed Workmen
Mentor
p43