Wisdom to Meditate On

...on prayer...

Prayer is God's appointed way for obtaining things, and the great secret of all lack in our experience, in our life, and in our work is neglect of prayer. - Reuben Archer Torrey: How To Pray 'Why is it ... that the Church of Christ makes so little headway against unbelief and error and sin and worldliness?' 'Neglect of prayer. You have not because you ask not.' - Reuben Archer Torrey: How To Pray The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry. - Charles Spurgeon Prayer, in every care and anxiety and need of life, with thanksgiving, is the means God has appointed for our obtaining freedom from all anxiety, and the peace of God which passeth all understanding. - Reuben Archer Torrey: How to Pray More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. - Alfred Lord Tennyson Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God Himself. - Unknown I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. - Abraham Lincoln Prayer succeeds when all else fails. - E. M. Bounds Satan laughs at our toiling, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. - Unknown: The Kneeling Christian

...on devotion to God...

This is the business of our life. By labor and prayer to advance in the grace of God, till we come to that height of perfection which, with clean hearts, we may behold God. - St. Augustine ...it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. - C.S. Lewis: The Weight of Glory A key secret of those who finish well is to focus more on loving Jesus than avoiding sin. - Kenneth Boa: Conformed to His Image Thou hast prompted him, that he should delight to praise thee, for thou hast made us for thyself and restless is our heart until it comes to rest in thee - Augustine of Hippo: Confessions

...on ministry...

It was this surrender and subordination of intellect and genius to the divine and spiritual forces which made Paul peerless among the apostles. - E. M. Bounds ... he will use his intellect best who cultivates his heart most. - E. M. Bounds The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus Christ is service for Him... The one aim of the call of God is the satisfaction of God, not a call to do something for Him. - Oswald Chambers: My Utmost for His Highest

...etc...

And so it is that the rich prize friendship as their glory, the exiles as their native land, the poor as their wealth, the sick as their medicine, the dead as their life, the healthy as their charm, the weak as their strength and the strong as their prize. - Aelred of Rievaulx: Spiritual Friendship I think, Lord, that we're all afraid of werewolves - not afraid of being destroyed by one - afraid of being one... - Rich Mullins So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live. - Rich Mullins The pain, now, is part of the happiness, then. That's the deal. - C.S. Lewis

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