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The
Autobiography of George Muller
Join George Muller on his journey from a life of sin and rebellion to his glorious conversion. Share his struggles and triumphs as he establishes orphan homes to care for thousands of English children, depending entirely upon God's miraculous response to his vibrant faith.Some quotes from George Muller:
"The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith; and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.""Why should we limit either the goodness or the power of God by our own knowledge of what we call the laws of nature?"
"I was, for the first time in my life, able fully and unreservedly to give up myself to God. At this time I began truly to enjoy the peace of God which passeth all understanding."
"I saw more clearly than ever that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was to have my soul happy in the Lord....I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God, and to meditation on it, that thus my heart might be comforted, encouraged, warned, reproved, instructed; and that thus, by means of the Word of God, whilst meditating on it, my heart might be brought into communion with the Lord."
"The first thing the child of God has to do morning by morning is to obtain food for his inner man."
Hudson
Taylor's Spiritual Secret, by
Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor
Hudson Taylor was truly God's chosen servant. From his early life in England, through the founding of the China Inland Mission, to reaching millions of Chinese, his life of faith gives glorious testimony to God. His spiritual secret could change your life. A recent reader said, "This is an excellent book! Hudson Taylor's journey of seeking after God is an inspiration to anyone who longs to do the same....The secrets that he discovered along the way are like a breath of fresh air to the souls that long to see more of Jesus in their lives."Some quotes from Hudson Taylor:
"Unspeakable joy all day long and every day was my happy experience. God, even my God, was a living bright reality, and all I had to do was joyful service.""It was in blessed reality 'Christ liveth in me.' And how great the difference! -- instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another."
"The sweetest part, if one may speak of one part being sweeter than another, is the rest which full identification with Christ brings. I am no longer anxious about anything."
"Oh, it is joy to feel Jesus living in you...to find your heart all taken up by Him...He is our life, our strength, our salvation."
Shadow
of the Almighty,
by Elisabeth Elliot
The best-selling account of the martyrdom of Jim Elliot and four other missionaries at the hands of the Auca Indians in Ecuador. This book will stir your soul. A recent reader said, "this book really gives a clear picture of a man whose life was lived fully to glorify God. It will really challenge you in your faith. This is one of the few books I have that I'll read over and over again!" Another reader wrote, "the way it is written and what is written has encouraged me so much; to have a heart after God is the most important issue in our lives."Some quotes from Jim Elliot:
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.""Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God."
A
Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy
Carmichael,
by Elisabeth Elliot
A life willingly laid down in India continues to bear fruit. Amy Carmichael has been a spiritual mother to many more than the children she rescued from temple prostitution in India at the turn of the 19th century. Her influence extends much farther beyond her geographical location and lifetime. She is truly an inspiration for our times. Amy's life is described from childhood, through the active mission years, and on into the last 20 years she spent as an invalid before her death. It is flesh and blood we see through it all; not some mystical saint who has achieved great spiritual heights unobtainable to the rest of us. We are allowed glimpses of her struggles, fears, doubts, failures, and blind spots as well as her triumphs. Amy saw "missions as a chance to die" to oneself so that Christ might be revealed.Some quotes from Amy Carmichael:
"If I can easily discuss the shortcomings and the sins of any; if I can speak in a casual way even of a child's misdoings, then I know nothing of Calvary love.""If I say, yes I forgive, but I cannot forget as though the God who twice a day washed all the sands on all the shores of all the world could not wash such memories from my mind, then I know nothing of Calvary love. If the living God who made the tide and washes the shores daily cannot wash away from my mind the caustic remarks, the ugliness, the wrongs in someone else, then I haven't even entered into Calvary love."
"If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it -- then I know nothing of Calvary love."
"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."