May 20

On Consecration

Give your second best never. AM393

Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, “Ready for either.” ME14

Jesus gave both his hands to the nails, how can I keep back one of mine from His blessed work? ME529

You must have no co-ordinate or even secondary object or divided aim: if you do divide your heart, your life will be a failure. WCo75

Could our zeal know no respite, could our prayers know no pause, could our efforts know no relaxation, could we give all we have of time, wealth, talent, and opportunity, could we die a martyr’s death a thousand times, would not He, the Best Beloved of our souls, deserve far more? WCo83

“I would to God that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil. If we were as willing to suffer for God as some are to suffer for their lusts, what perseverance and zeal would be seen on all sides!” (709.500)

“When a man yields himself to Jesus he should comprehend his house, his money, his body, his time, his wife, his children,—everything in the deed of surrender; for he who bought us with his precious blood did not buy us with a reserve and leave the devil a mortgage upon us, but we are the Lord’s unencumbered freehold for ever.” (1473.274)

“It is a wicked error to conceive that so much of our life ought to be religious and so much to be secular. A Christian’s whole life is to be his religion, and his religion is to saturate his whole life.” (1473.274)

“Be half a Christian, and you shall have enough religion to make you miserable; be wholly a Christian, and your joy shall be full.” (1854.443)

“Surely you have some natural faculty or acquired skill which you can lay at his feet.” (2017.202)