I’ve been reading Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton and I came across this brilliant quote. We so often want to dismiss tradition for the sake of the here and now, Chesterton beautifully dismisses the idea:
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition [...]

“He who lives without prayer, he who lives with little prayer, he who seldom reads the Word, and he who seldom looks up to heaven for a fresh influence from on high -he will be the man whose heart will become dry and barren.”
-Charles Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon is probably one of the most quoted modern (1800’s) [...]

“Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.” —Hudson Taylor
I came across this quote recently from a good friend of mine, Joey, who is headed for Bangladesh as a missionary and living out the above quote. I would have linked directly to his blog, [...]

“If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord.”