Living for God's Glory Quotes

“You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed," John Bunyan writes. "Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan."24”
― Joel R. Beeke, Living for God's Glory: An Introduction to Calvinism

“Give yourself-not just your time-to prayer. Remember that prayer is not an appendix to your life and your work, it is your life your real, spiritual life-and your work. Prayer is the thermometer of your soul.”
― Joel R. Beeke, Living for God's Glory: An Introduction to Calvinism

“The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows; but God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams, but God is the fountain. These are but drops; but God is the ocean.16”
― Joel R. Beeke, Living for God's Glory: An Introduction to Calvinism

“The New England divine Cotton Mather puts it this way: "Exhibit as much as you can of a glorious Christ. Yea, let the motto upon your whole ministry be: Christ is all. Let others develop the pulpit fads that come and go. Let us specialize in preaching our Lord Jesus Christ.”
― Joel R. Beeke, Living for God's Glory: An Introduction to Calvinism

“Christ is a pattern of holiness for us in His holy humility (Phil. 2:5-13), holy compassion (Mark 1:41), holy forgiveness (Col. 3:13), holy unselfishness (Rom. 15:3), holy indignation against sin (Matt. 23), and holy prayer (Heb. 5:7). Holiness that resembles God and is patterned after Christ saves us from hypocrisy and resorting to a "Sunday only" Christianity. It gives vitality, purpose, meaning, direction, and contentment to daily living. "The holy person is the only contented man in the world," Gurnall writes.49”
― Joel R. Beeke, Living for God's Glory: An Introduction to Calvinism

“listen to these words of Ann Griffiths, a humble Welsh Calvinistic Methodist who was a farmer's wife and who died in 1805 at the age of 29 when giving birth to her first child:
Gladly”
― Joel R. Beeke, Living for God's Glory: An Introduction to Calvinism