“The burden of suffering seems to be a tombstone hung around our necks. Yet in reality it is simply the weight necessary to hold the diver down while he is searching for pearls.”
- Julius Richter, Streams in the Desert
Archive for the ‘Quote for the Day’ Category
Pearls
October 26, 2009The Faith To Persevere
October 20, 2009“Faith is not some weak and pitiful emotion, but is strong and vigorous confidence built on the fact that God is holy love. And even though you cannot see Him right now and cannot understand what He is doing, you know Him. Disaster occurs in your life when you lack the mental composure that comes from establishing yourself on the eternal truth that God is holy love. Faith is the supreme effort of your life – throwing yourself with abandon and total confidence on God.”
- Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Songs in the Night
September 7, 2009“The strength of a ship is only fully demonstrated when it faces a hurricane, and the power of the gospel can only be fully exhibited when a Christian is subjected to some fiery trial. We must understand that for God to give ’songs in the night,’ He must first make it night.”
- Nathaniel William Taylor, Streams in the Desert
Unattractive Gifts
August 16, 2009“Dear friend, God may send you some valuable gifts wrapped in unattractive paper. But do not worry about the wrappings, for you can be sure that inside He has hidden treasures of love, kindness, and wisdom. If we will simply take what he sends and trust Him for the blessings inside, we will learn the meaning of the secrets of His providence, even in times of darkness.”
- A.B. Simpson, Streams in the Desert
Contentment
July 12, 2009“Our thought life – not our circumstances – determines whether we are content.”
- Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart
Joy
June 30, 2009“Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.”
- Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Desperate Faith
June 24, 2009“Desperation is better than despair. Remember, our faith did not create our desperate days. Faith’s work is to sustain us through those days and to solve them. Yet the only alternative to desperate faith is despair. Faith holds on and prevails.”
- S. Chadwick, Streams in the Desert
These Pains and Troubles
June 23, 2009“These pains and troubles here are like the type that printers set. When we look at them, we see them backwards, and they seem to have no meaning. But up there, when the Lord God prints out our life to come, we will find they make splendid reading.”
- Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Preaching Christ
November 24, 2008“It seems to me to be a very dangerous thing to preach Christ so that your preaching shall not be a constant rebuke to all the evil in the community. That man who so preaches Christ, doctrinally or historically, that no one takes offense, no one feels rebuked, no one trembles, is not a legitimate and faithful preacher of Christ.”
- Henry Ward Beecher, Preaching Christ, 1861
A Consistent Ethic of Life
October 28, 2008“The Church has missed the heart of God by speaking out against abortion while keeping silent about war. Both are forms of violence used to preserve prosperity. Abortion is prenatal war against the powerless child. War is postnatal abortion that destroys innocent life. The kingdom is life for the fetus and life for the civilian. The church embodies this life in a world of expedient and preemptive killing.”
- Rob Bell, On Saving Christians
