I want this blog post to be thought provoking. These are from some books on my summer reading list.
From the book The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis:
"Lord, let everything be in accordance with your will. Give what you will, as much as you will, and when you will. Do with me as You thing good, as pleases You best, and is most to Your glory. I am in Your hand; guide me according to Your will. I am indeed Your servant...how I wish I could serve You perfectly and worthily."
"Your slowness in turning to prayer is the greatest obstacle to receiving My Heavenly comfort."
"When you think I am far away, then often I am nearest to you."
"Nature regards the outward characteristics of a man: Grace considers his inner disposition. And while Nature is often misled, Grace trusts in God and cannot be deceived."
"The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to be won hereafter." (Romans 8:18)
"The deeper he descends into himself and the lower he regards himself, the higher he ascends towards God."
"For those things which men regard as commendable are often blameworthy in My sight."
"Let this be your constant desire-that whether in life or death, God may at all times be glorified in you."
"If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory. For whoever so controls himself that his passions are subject to his reason, and his reason wholly subject to Me, is master both of himself and of the world."
"Without the Way, there is no progress; without the Truth, there is no knowledge; without the Life, there is no living."
"...so neither can anything you give Me be acceptable without the gift of yourself."
"I have given My very Body and Blood to be your food, that I may be all yours, and that you maybe mine forever."
"The more completely a man renounces worldly things, and the more perfectly he dies to self by the conquest of self, the sooner will grace be given, the more richly will it be infused, and the nearer to God will it raise the heart set free from the world."
"For were the works of God readily understandable by human reason, they would be neither wonderful nor unspeakable."
From the book Knowing God by JI Packer:
"What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiances; and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?"
"What God does in time, he planned from eternity. And all that he planned in eternity, he carries out in time."
"If our God is the same as the God of the New Testament believers, how can we justify ourselves in resting content with an experience of communion with Him, and a level of Christian conduct that falls so below theirs?"
"He cannot change for the better for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse." -AW Pink
"Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator."
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