I think I do not desire to live one minute for any thing that earth can afford. Oh, that I could live for none but God, till my dying moment!
—David Brainerd
My soul felt a pleasing, yet painful concern, lest I should spend some moments without God. O may I always live to God!
—David Brainerd
Time appeared a moment, life a vapour, and all its enjoyments as empty bubbles, and fleeting blasts of wind.
—David Brainerd
Is not eternal life worth the suffering of a moment’s pain? If I suffer with Him, I shall reign with Him (2 Tim. 2:12).
—John Flavel
Still good advice (whether pocket Bibles or phones):
In everyone’s life many minutes each day are lost, waiting for meals, riding on trains, etc. … Carry a pocket Bible with you, and save those golden moments by putting them to the very best use, listening to the voice of God.
—R. A. Torrey
One can pray while walking the street, or riding in the car, and one should lift the heart to God right in the busiest moments of life, but we need set set times of prayer, times when we go alone with God, shut the door and talk to our Father in the secret place.
—R. A. Torrey
You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God. – C.S. Lewis
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence–and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.
—Nikolai Gogol
As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind… Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?
—Nikolai Gogol
O for more of His gracious influence, which in a moment can make my wilderness-soul rejoice and blossom like the rose!
—John Newton
It’s unnecessary to raise a hurricane to destroy us. Were he to withdraw his arm for a moment some unthought evil would overwhelm.
—John Newton
Let us suppose the thing we are most afraid of actually to happen. Can it come a moment sooner, or in any other way, than by His appointment?
Is He not gracious, and faithful, to support us under the stroke?
—John Newton
Let us suppose the thing we are most afraid of actually to happen. Can it come a moment sooner, or in any other way, than by His appointment?
Is He not gracious, and faithful, to support us under the stroke?
—John Newton