discipleship

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

The Christian life doesn't work because we are such great followers. It works because Christ is such a great Leader.

I wouldn't serve a God who wouldn't speak to me.George Foreman

The commencement of all labor consisted in the preparation of his own soul.

I'm listening to my son right now.

The author holds up for inspection the fallacy of The Closed-Door Method wherein Christ's followers assume that if a decision is difficult to make it is not His will for us to make it because He would obviously not want us to do anything difficult.

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.

Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited them by your treason; but nothing can forfeit a child's right to a father's protection.

He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.

The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich to-day and poor to-morrow; he may be sickly to-day and well to-morrow; he may be in happiness to-day, to-morrow he may be distressed-but there is no change with regard to his relationship to God. If He loved me yesterday, He loves me to-day.

See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight.

Will you not this day make it your prayer? "Lord, help me to glorify Thee; I am poor, help me to glorify Thee by contentment; I am sick, help me to give Thee honour by patience; I have talents, help me to extol Thee by spending them for Thee; I have time, Lord, help me to redeem it, that I may serve Thee; I have a heart to feel, Lord, let that heart feel no love but Thine, and glow with no flame but affection for Thee; I have a head to think, Lord, help me to think of Thee and for Thee; Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord, show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose.

Safe in the sovereignty of the Godhead, we can count on the fact that WE, rather than just our friends, enemies, or circumstances, will be transformed.

You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

At the fall, we became alienated not only from God and other people but also from ourselves.