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“He said "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much.”
― Amy Carmichael

“Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

“Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.”
― John Wesley

“The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.”
― Martin Luther

“And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father,
Until it be according unto mine?
But, no, Lord, no, that never shall be, rather
I pray Thee blend my human will with Thine.

I pray Thee hush the hurrying, eager longing,
I pray Thee soothe the pangs of keen desire—
See in my quiet places, wishes thronging—
Forbid them, Lord, purge, though it be with fire.”
― Amy Carmichael

“Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the "Rock-counsciousness" of the promise given her, "He goeth before.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

“We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pursuit of God”
― Tozer a.W.

“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“When your will is God's will, you will have your will.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness”
― Charles Spurgeon

“A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms