Devotional Classics Quotes

Quotes tagged as "devotional-classics" Showing 1-5 of 5
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles.”
Charles Spurgeon

Henri J.M. Nouwen
“The spiritual life is a gift. It is a gift of the Holy Spirit, who lifts us up into the kingdom of God's love. But to say that being lifted up into the kingdom of love is a divine gift does not mean that we wait passively until the gift is offered to us.”
Henri Nouwen

Catherine of Genoa
“Since I am determined to join myself to God, I find that I am also bound to be the enemy of his enemies. And since I find nothing that is more his enemy than the self that is me, I am constrained to hate this part of me more than any other.”
Catherine of Genoa

“To commit myself to do the whole will of God; to be able to invite God to look into my heart and to know that He will find there no opposition to His will, nothing but deep love and a real desire to serve Him--this is what it means to be a sanctified child of God.”
A.F. Harper, Holiness and High Country: Devotional Readings for Every Day

Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“A godly man often grows best when his worldly circumstances decay. He who follows Christ for his bag is a Judas; they who follow for loaves and fishes are children of the devil; but they who attend him out of love to himself are his own beloved ones. Lord, let me find my life in thee...!”
Charles Spurgeon, Morning and Evening: Daily Readings