Obedience

“Lord, help me to obey Your commandments. My spirit is willing, but my flesh is weak! I long to live in that obedience, in order that I may know the Father’s love and manifestation to me. Amen.” -A.W. Tozer

Worry

“Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” ― Corrie Ten Boom

preaching

“God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.” ~ John Piper

made for another world

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world." --C. S. Lewis

Meekness

“Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.” ― A.W. Tozer, Pursuit of God

Kingdom outside

"We are partners in this Kingdom thing - drinking deep of relentless hope, we are called to spill irrepressible life on our cities & towns" - Kathryn Scott

tozer

A.W. Tozer: “The fact is that, we are not producing saints. We are making converts to an effete type of Christianity, that bears little resemblance to that of the New Testament. The average so-called Bible Christian of our times is but a shallow display of true sainthood. Yet, we put millions of dollars behind ‘movements’ to perpetuate this lower form of religion and attack the man who dares to challenge the wisdom of it.”

Prophetic Vision

"We need a baptism of clear seeing. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist--Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy." TOZER

Cool Piper Quote

“Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.” ― John Piper

GIANT QUOTE

"Never mistake activity for achievement"

Joy

"It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us as our Saviour and Power for fruitbearing and His joy in possessing us, as His Bride and His delight; it is the consciousness of this joy which is our real strength. Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change."
-Hudson Taylor

Helen Keller Quotes

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

T. Austin Sparks

"The whole history of the Church is one long story of this tendency to settle down on this earth and to become conformed to this world, to find acceptance and popularity here and to eliminate the element of conflict and of pilgrimage. That is the trend and the tendency of everything. Therefore outwardly, as well as inwardly, pioneering is a costly thing." — T. Austin Sparks

"It is a costly and a suffering thing to come up against the religious system that has ' settled down ' here. It is far more costly than coming up against the naked world itself. The religious system can be more ruthless and cruel and bitter; it can be actuated by all those mean things, contemptible things, prejudices and suspicions things that you will not even find in decent people in the world. It is costly to go on to the heavenlies, it is painful; but it is the way of the pioneer, and it has to be settled that that is how it is." — T. Austin Sparks

missions

""Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God." --John Piper

Vision

"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."
Helen Keller

Time

In response to Frodo's wish that he wasn't in his situation. 'So do all who see such times. But that is not for us to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that we are given.'
Gandalf quote

a world Christian

"Not Every Christian is called to be a missionary. But every follower of Christ is called to be a world Christian. A world Christian is someone who is so gripped by the glory of God and the glory of his global purpose that he chooses to align himself with God's mission to fill the earth ‘…with the knowledge of His glory as the waters cover the sea.’ (Habakkuk 2:14)”
- John Piper, Let the Nations be Glad p. 228

...one passion....

"I have only one passion and it is Him, only Him"
- Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700-1760):

a church that does not exist to...

"A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness is a church that has no right to be."
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)

A.W. Tozer

"one hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team."

— A.W. Tozer