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See also Commitment
See also Sacrifice
Martin Luther
"We ought to live as though Christ died yesterday, rose today, and is coming tomorrow."
Jim Eilliot
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
C.T.Studd
"Some people like to live within the sound of a Church or Chapel Bell
I would rather run a rescue shop with in a yard of hell."
A.Murray
"We prove the value which we attach to things by the time we devote to them."
Rueben Torrey
"The imminent return of our Lord is the great Bible argument for a pure, unselfish, devoted, unworldly, active life of service."
Everybody, Somebody, Nobody and Anybody
Once upon a time, there were four people; their names were Everybody, Somebody, Nobody and Anybody. Whenever there was an important job to be done, Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. When Nobody did it, Everybody got angry because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Somebody would do it, but Nobody realized that Nobody would do it. So consequently Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done in the first place.
Contribution from Andy Stovel (Who else)
Ravi Zacharias in his book "Can man live without God?" tells the following story. A young somewhat cocky cowboy was riding his horse one day when he spied a hunched over old farm hand on a mule. Deciding to have a little fun the young cowboy drew his 6 shooter and told the old man to get down of his mule. He then asked the old man "if he had ever danced" and began to empty his revolver at his feet with great laughter. The old man slowly turned back to his mule (unamused ) and put his hand into his pack and drew a shotgun and aimed it at the now bulletless young cowboy and he said "did you ever kiss a mule?" To which the young cowboy said with fright "no but I have always wanted to!" There is nothing like a bullet for motivation. While the Lord does not put a gun to our heads he does give us the stories of the Bible for direction and motivation, are you listening.
J.C.Ryle
"The hottest iron will soon become cold. It requires pains and toil to bring it to a red heat; it requires nothing but letting alone or a little cold water, to become black and hard."
D.L.Moody
"I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said to me, 'Moody, save all you can.'"
"Give me a man, any man, and I will listen to his speech for 5 minuets and tell whether he is on fire for his God or not".
John Wesley
"Give me a hundred men who love God with all their hearts and fear nothing but sin and I will move the world"
General William Booth
"While women weep as they do now, I'll fight
While little children go hungry as they do now, I'll fight
While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, I'll fight
While there is a poor lost girl upon the street, I'll fight
While there yet remains one dark soul without the light of God
I'll fight, I'll fight to the very end."
"Hudson Taylor prayed about things as if everything depended upon the praying, but then he worked as if everything depended upon the work."
David Shepherd (The Welsh Evangelist) told the story of his Uncle coming home from a prayer meeting one evening. Above the fire place hung the famous picture of The Last Supper. His Uncle upon seeing Judas, punched the picture, smashing the glass. "There's one for betraying the honourable young boy." he shouted (in welsh of course).
David McCullough in his book Mornings On Horseback
tells this story about young Teddy Roosevelt: Mittie (his mother) had found he was so afraid of the Madison Square Church that he refused to set foot inside if alone. He was terrified, she discovered, of something called the "zeal." It was crouched in the dark corners of the church ready to jump at him, he said. When she asked what a zeal might be, he said he was not sure, but thought it was probably a large animal like an alligator or a dragon. He had heard the minister read about it from the Bible. Using a concordance, she read him those passages containing the word ZEAL until suddenly, very excited, he told her to stop. The line was from the Book of John, 2:17: "And his disciples remembered that it was written, 'The ZEAL of thine house hath eaten me up'" People are still justifiably afraid to come near the "zeal" of the Lord, for they are perfectly aware it could "eat them up" if they aren't one of His. Our Lord is good, but He isn't safe.
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