Walking by Faith

"Whenever the Lord enables us to walk by faith, we enjoy a comfortable hope.  But when he leaves us to encounter the assault of the adversary, and the corruptions of our own hearts, and with nothing but our reasoning powers to combat them, however much our reason or souls have been enlightened in the knowledge of spiritual things, we have but a sorry, gloomy, doubting time of it: and we are made to know that it is not by any power that we have that faith can be brought to our rescue." -- Samuel Trott

We need Jesus

"We need Jesus; He doesn't need us...By the way people talk about ministry today, you would think that the success of the Kingdom turns on us -- that God is passively waiting for us to get on with things...Ministry is not your gift to Him. It is His gift to you." -- In "The Sanctification of Ministry Failure" by Art Azurdia