Has Christ provided such a blessed banquet for us? He does not nurse us abroad–but feeds us with His own breast–nay, with His own blood! Let us, then, study to respond to this great love of Christ. It is true, we can never parallel His love. Yet let us show ourselves thankful. We can do nothing satisfactory–but we may do something out of gratitude. Christ gave Himself as a sin-offering for us. Let us give ourselves as a thank-offering for Him. If a man redeems another out of debt–will he not be grateful? How deeply do we stand obliged to Christ–who has redeemed us from hell!. Thomas Watson
The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ -- all these are...
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C.g. Jung
Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops...
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Corrie Ten Boom
When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive, and be grateful. When Love has matured and, through a dissolution of the...
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Unknown
Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.
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Corrie Ten Boom
I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!
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C.s. Lewis
More Quotes By Thomas Watson
Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.
Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.
God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.
Such as make the sacrament only a representation of Christ do aim short of the mystery, and come short of the comfort.
We should pray that God would enrich his ordinance with his presence; that he would make the sacrament effectual to all those holy ends and purposes for which he hath appointed it; that it may be the feast of our graces, and the funeral of...
