Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category

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Faith

September 16, 2008

I felt a need to redeem myself after the last post. I hope you didn’t get the idea that I go around licking my elbows or that I am constantly contorting my face into shapes that only an eleven year old girl would find funny. So here is something on a more serious note.

I have been reading All of Grace by Spurgeon. An amazing little book. Anyway…here are some awesome quotes from it:

“Faith is not a blind thing, for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical, dreamy thing, for faith trusts and stakes its destiny on the truth of revelation.”

“See, then, that the weakness of your faith will not destroy you. A trembling hand may receive a golden gift. The Lord’s salvation can come to us though we have only faith as a grain of mustard seed. The power lies in the grace of God and not in out faith.”

“No chain is stronger than its weakest link. If Jesus is our hope for everything except one thing, we will utterly fail because in that one point we will come to nothing.”

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Where is your treasure?

April 24, 2008

I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

–Martin Luther

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Freedom

April 23, 2008

American Christians often think of freedom as being able to go to church and worship God in our own way, without any fear of persecution. I think we missed the point, here is what a Chinese brother who has suffered many times at the hands of the communist government has to say about freedom:

Once I spoke in the West and a Christian told me, “I’ve been praying for years that the Communist government in China will collapse, so Christians can live in freedom.” This is not what we pray! …Don’t pray for the persecution to stop! We shouldn’t pray for a lighter load to carry, but a stronger back to endure! Then the world will see that God is with us, empowering us to live in a way that reflects his love and power.

This is true freedom!

–Brother Yun

This is an excerpt from The Heavenly Man (2002) by Brother Yun with Paul Hattaway. I would highly recommend this book which is an amazing testimony to what God is doing in China today.