St. Patrick

Christ be with me, Christ within me,

Christ behind me, Christ before me,

Christ beside me, Christ to win me,

Christ to comfort and restore me,

Christ beneath me, Christ above me,

Christ in quiet, Christ in danger,

Christ in hearts of all that love me,

Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

John Owen

Oh to behold the glory of Christ! Herein would I live, herein would I die, here on would I dwell in my thoughts and affections until all things below become to me a dead and deformed thing, no longer calling out for my affectionate embraces.

Benjamin Franklin

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession. . . . Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

John Owen

One view of Christ’s glory by faith will scatter all the fears, answer all the objections and disperse all the depressions of poor, tempted, doubting souls. To all believers it is an anchor which they may cast within the veil, to hold them firm and steadfast in all trials, storms and temptations, both in life and in death.

Martin Luther

Believe in Jesus Christ, crucified for thy sins. If thou feel thy sins, and the burden thereof, look not upon them in thyself, but remember that they are translated and laid upon Christ, whose stripes have made thee whole. This is the beginning of health and salvation.

Thomas Kelly

"Double-mindedness in this matter is wholly destructive of the spiritual life. Totalitarian are the claims of Christ. No vestige of reservation of 'our' rights can remain."

-- A Testament of Devotion

Ann Voskamp

Simplicity doesn’t mean we will live uncomplicated lives. Simplicity is a matter of Focus — the grace to focus our lives simply on Christ.

Daily email, June 15, 2012

Ann Voskamp

Pray with eyes on Christ and not on the crisis.

Because when you pray with eyes on Christ and not on the crisis — your prayers are always answered: He edifies, He embraces, He is enough.

What would it be like to live like that — all the moments a prayer with eyes of the heart all on Christ?

Ann Voskamp daily email, June 22, 2012