Encouraging Quotes to Remember Part 12 September 2023

“I think God wants to make me pure gold, so He is burning out the dross, teaching me the meaning of the fire, the burnt offering, the death of the self-part of me.”

Love this! (A quote from “A Chance to Die” by Elisabeth Elliot, anout Amy Carmichael)

“Who would never know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?”

(Excerpt from “One Thousand Gifts”)

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us, but we are wondering how painful that best will turn out to be.” C.S. Lewis 😍

“Being joy-filled does not mean that your life is perfect. Who could claim such a distinction? It doesn’t even mean that your life is great. What it does mean is that you emphatically trust God and believe He has great plans for your life, regardless of what is happening right now.”
(40 Days to a Joy-Filled Life)

“My Lord Jesus does not want your help. Abstain, resolve, repent, advance—do what you will. But do not join these poor things to His great salvation. Give up once and for all depending upon what you have done, even when you have done all—as an unprofitable servant quit all claims of wage and appeal to mercy only. Dismiss the proud notion of containing anything in yourself which comes of your fallen nature and yet can be acceptable with God. …Empty buckets are most fit for the well of grace—these shall be filled while the full ones stand idle at the well’s mouth” (from Charles Spurgeon, Sermon 2063, “The Filling of Empty Vessels”, 1889).