Consecration – Zitate

Take me, O my Father, take me!      Take me, save me, through Thy Son; That which Thou wouldst have me, make me,      Let Thy will in me be done. Long from Thee my footsteps straying,      Thorny proved the way I trod; Weary come I now, and praying—      Take me to Thy love, my God!

— Ray Palmer

See that you receive Christ with all your heart . As there is nothing in Christ that may be refused, so there is nothing in you from which He must be excluded.

— John Flavel

If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not absorbed by it, remember that the one power whereby you can so act is, that all shall be consecrated to Christ, and done for His sake.

— Alexander Maclaren

  ​ God consecrates us with His Spirit; whom He adopts, He anoints; whom He makes sons, He makes saints; He doth not only give them a new name, but a new nature. God turns the wolf into a lamb; He makes the heart humble and gracious; He works such a change as if another soul did dwell in the same body.

— T. Watson

Teach us, Master, how to give      All we have and are to Thee; Grant us, Saviour, while we live,      Wholly, only Thine to be.

— F. R. Havergal

Live, as it were, on trust. All that is in you, all that you are, is only loaned to you; make use of it according to the will of Him who lends it; but never regard it for a moment as your own.

— Fenelon

Seek to make life henceforth a consecrated thing; that so, when the sunset is nearing, with its murky vapors and lowering skies, the very clouds of sorrow may be fringed with golden light. Thus will the song in the house of your pilgrimage be always the truest harmony. It will be composed of no jarring, discordant notes; but with all its varied tones will form one sustained, life-long melody; dropped for a moment in death, only to be resumed with the angels, and blended with the everlasting cadences of your Father's house.

— J. R. Macduff

Ah, my friends, it is not only from the study walls of pastors, but from the walls of every shop, every counting-room, and every hall of justice and legislation, that the countenance of the all-holy Jesus is looking down, and saying, "Do all for me."

— T. L. Cuyler

Living or dying, Lord,      I ask but to be Thine; My life in Thee, Thy life in me,      Makes heaven forever mine.

— Henry Harbaugh