The Agape Page is set up to further edify the body of Christ. There are soo many blessed brothers and sisters in the body of Christ who have left us amazing nuggets of wisdom in books, hymns, quotes, songs and the like. We here at Calvary Chapel North Bay would like to encourage all of you to spend time with the things posted here in the Agape Page and let the Lord bear much fruit in your hearts.
"The best prayer is not "I want", but "Thou art"
-Watchman Nee
"Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe."
-Augustine
"The school of suffering graduates rare scholars."
"Jesus Christ demands of the man who trusts Him the same reckless sporting spirit that the natural man exhibits."
-Oswald Chambers, "My Utmost for His Highest", 5.30
"Faith rests on the naked Word of God. When we take Him at His Word the heart is at peace"
-George Mueller
"I bear my willing witness that I owe more to the fire, and the hammer, and the file, than to anything else in my Lord's workshop. I sometimes question whether I have ever learned anything except through the rod. When my schoolroom is darkened, I see most."
-Charles H. Spurgeon
"The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ."
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "The Cost of Discipleship", pg. 51
"Be still and know that I am God"
-Psalm 46:10
"You're either a saint, or you ain't."
"You're either a mission or a missionary."
"...It does require the supernatural grace of God to live twenty-four hours in every day as a sain, to go through drudgery as a disciple, to live an ordinary, unobserved, ignored existence as a disciple of Jesus. It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God; but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes."
-Oswald Chambers, "My Utmost for His Highest," 10.21
"A soul thus possessed with divine love must be enlarged towards all mankind in a sincere and unbounded affection because of the relation they have to God, being His creatures, and having something of His image stamped upon them."
-Henry Scougal, "The Life of God in the soul of man"
"God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like You, Lord Jesus."
-Jim Elliot, missonary
"If I covet any place on earth but the dust at the foot of the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary love."
-Amy Carmichael, "IF"
"A man is no fool to give up what he can never keep to gain that which he can never lose"
-quoted from Jim Eliot, missionary/martyr
"Thou hast formed us for thyself and our hearts are restless until they find rest in Thee"
-Augustine, "Confession, Book 1"
"In every Christian's heart there is a cross and a throne, and Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross; if he refuses the cross he remains on the throne... We all ant to be saved but we insist that Christ do all the dying. No cross for us, no dethronement, no dying. We remain king within the little kingdom of Mansoul and wear our tinsel crowns with all the pride of a Caesar; but we doom ourselves to shadows and wekaness and spiritual sterility."
-AW Tozer
"The key to the missionary’s work is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the lost. We are inclined to look on our Lord as one who assists us in our endeavors for God. Yet our Lord places Himself as the absolute sovereign and supreme Lord over His disciples. He does not say that the lost will never be saved if we don’t go—He simply says, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations .” He says, “Go on the basis of the revealed truth of My sovereignty, teaching and preaching out of your living experience of Me."
-Oswald Chambers, "My Utmost for His Highest", October 14
"Difficulty is the very atmosphere of miracle- it is a miracle in its first stage. If is to be a great miracle, the condition is not difficulty but impossibility."
-"Streams in the Desert", October 14
