Great Quotes: Being Used by God to Bless Others

“Master, we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing.” Luke 5:5. What was the reason for this? They understood the work. Had they gone about the toil unskillfully? No. Had they lacked industry? No. They had toiled. Had they lacked perseverance? No. They had toiled all the night. Was there a deficiency of fish in the sea? Certainly not, for as soon as the Master came, they swam to the net in schools. What, then, is the reason? It is because there is no power in themselves apart from the presence of Jesus! Without Christ we can do nothing, but with Him we can do all things. Christ’s presence confers success.” –C. H. Spurgeon

 
I used to ask God if He would come and help me; then I asked God if I might come and help Him; then I ended by asking God to do His own work through me. –Hudson Taylor

Men ask for a rainbow in the cloud; but I would ask more from Thee. I would be, in my cloud, myself a rainbow—a minister to others’ joy. –George Matheson