They Say There Is A Young Lady

"They say there is a young lady in New Haven who is beloved of that Great Being who made and rules the world.  They say that He fills her mind with exceeding sweet delight, and that she hardly cares for anything except to meditate on Him.  If you present all the world to her, with the richest of its treasures, she disregards it.  She is unmindful of any pain or affliction.  She has a singular purity in her affections.  You could not persuade her to compromise her true Love even if you would give her all the world.  She possesses a wonderful sweetness, calmness, and kindness to those around her.  She will sometimes go about from place to place, singing sweetly.  She seems to be always full of joy and pleasure, and no one knows exactly why.  She loves to be alone, walking in the fields and groves, and seems to have Someone invisible always conversing with her.

 -Written of Sara Edwards by Jonathan Edwards, her future husband

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Set Apart Girl Magazine, Sept/Oct 2010

You Do Not Have Time...

“Suppose someone should offer me a plateful of crumbs

after I had eaten a T-bone steak.

I would say, ‘No, thank you. I am already satisfied.’

Christian, that is the secret -

you can be so filled with the things of Christ,

so enamored with the things of God

that you do not have time

for the sinful pleasures of the world.”

~Billy Graham

Almost all...

"Life is not long enough to live a half-hearted surrender." 
~Megan (journal entry before meeting her Maker)

"Take my heart, it is Thine own; it shall be Thy royal throne.
Take my love, my Lord, I pour at Thy feet its treasure store.
Take myself, and I will be ever, only, all for Thee."

 ~Frances Havergal

The Choice

"[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that."

"We are half-hearted creatures like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."

~C.S. Lewis