Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
— Augustine of Hippo
Daily Christian quotes to direct, inspire, encourage, and help ordinary Christians in the rough and tumble of their daily lives!
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
— Augustine of Hippo
Divine sovereignty is not the sovereignty of a tyrannical Despot, but the exercised pleasure of One who is infinitely wise and good! Because God is infinitely wise He cannot err, and because He is infinitely righteous He will not do wrong. Here then is the preciousness of this truth. The mere fact itself that God’s will is irresistible and irreversible fills me with fear, but once I realize that God wills only that which is good, my heart is made to rejoice.
— A. W. Pink
I think it is possible on earth to build a young, new Jerusalem, a little, new heaven of this surpassing love. God, either send me more of this love, or take me quickly over the water, where I may be filled with his love.
— Samuel Rutherford
It is mercy to lack mercy, till we are fit for mercy, till we are able to bear the weight of mercy, and make a divine improvement of mercy.
— Thomas Brooks
When your commands are obeyed, it is from you that we receive the power to obey them.
— Augustine of Hippo