Lily Among the Thorns

Lily Among the Thorns

I'm Blessy Jahne and I'm on a journey.
24 y/o. CHRIST FOLLOWER. Advocate. Worship Minister. Bibliophile. Vintage Lover. Thrift Shopper. Stellar Tatter.
BC, Canada

DO YOU WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

I have loved you with an everlasting love. (Jeremiah 31:3)

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.

Surely if relationships to ancient and noble families make men think highly of themselves, we have whereof to glory over the heads of them all. Let the poorest and most despised believer lay hold upon this privilege; let not a senseless indolence make him negligent to trace his pedigree, and let him suffer no foolish attachment to present vanities to occupy his thoughts to the exclusion of this glorious, this heavenly honour of union with Christ.

— Charles Spurgeon (on 1 Cor. 15:48)

A saint’s life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, but our Lord continues to stretch and strain, and every once in a while the saint says, “I can’t take it any more.” Yet God pays no attention; He goes on stretching until His purpose is in sight, and then He lets the arrow fly.

— Oswald Chambers

It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates.

— Amy Carmichael

If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to “Yes,” she ought to say “No,” directly.

— Jane Austen, in Emma (via ever-gazing)

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To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him. — John Piper

To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him. — John Piper

We feed our bodies three hot meals a day and feed our spirits one cold meal a week and we wonder why we are spiritually weak.

— Smith Wigglesworth (via jisatsusakuru)

O my God, If thou art pleased to render me a spectacle to men and angels, thy holy will be done! All I ask is that thou wilt be with and save those who love thee.

— Madame Guyon

From all that I have read of history and government and human life and manners, I have drawn this conclusion: that the manners of women were the most infallible barometer to ascertain the degree of morality and virtue of a nation. The Jews, the Greeks, the Romans, the Swiss, the Dutch, all lost their public spirit and their republican forms of government when they lost the modesty and domestic virtues of their women.

— John Adams (2nd US President)

He that is down need fear no fall. He that is down cannot get between God and His glory. And we knew then that there was nothing He could not do through us if only we were nothing.

— Amy Carmichael

(Source: annamae4319)