“Let me forget the world 

and be swallowed up 

in the desire to glorify God.”

—David Brainerd

“We should always look upon ourselves as God’s servants, placed in God’s world, to do His work; and accordingly labour faithfully for Him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.”—David Brainerd

“All our difficulties are only platforms 

for the manifestations of 

His grace, power, and love.” 

—Hudson Taylor

“Jesus wept, but He never complained.”

—Charles Spurgeon

“A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep,

the church will have clowns entertaining the goats.” 

—Charles Spurgeon

“I have given God countless reasons not to love me.

None of them has been strong enough to change Him.”

—Paul Washer

“Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, 

you will be doomed to misery. 

That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. 

They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous.” 

—D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.” —George Whitefield

“It is not enough to have a song on your lips.

You must also have a song in your heart.”

—Fanny Crosby

“The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man’s troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.” 

—D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones