"If the world were like me,
what kind of a world would this world be?"
"I find that doing the will of
God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans."
— George
MacDonald
The phrase "God is good" cannot be
reserved for those moments when life turns out the way we had hoped.
"Beware of
cut-and-dried theologies that reduce the ways of God to a manageable formula
that keeps life safe.
God often does the
unexplainable just to keep us on our toes -- and also on our knees."
—
Warren Wiersbe
"We have a God who
delights in impossibilities."
— Andrew Murray
"Shared joy is double
joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow."
— Swedish Proverb
"Believe your beliefs
and doubt your doubts."
— F. F. Bosworth
By humility and the fear
of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life. Proverbs 22:4
"In the sorest trials
God often makes the sweetest discoveries of Himself."
“Tolerance is the last
virtue of a dying society.”
–Aristotle
"When I cannot enjoy
the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence." — Matthew Henry
"It is no small thing
to be on terms of friendship with God."
"Blessed is any
weight, however overwhelming, which God has been so good as to fasten with His
own hand upon our shoulders."
— F. W.Faber
"Give what you have;
to someone it may be better than you dare to think."
— Longfellow
"He who has God and
Everything has nothing more than he who has God alone."
— C. S. Lewis
"There is nothing the
body suffers the soul may not profit by."
— George Meredith
"We cannot all do
great things but we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Theresa
My job... is to believe
and not doubt... HIS JOB... EVERYTHING ELSE
-
Katie Davis
"Christians must
learn again what Christians have always known -- how to live without immediate
hopes in the world."
— T. R. Milford
"I find that doing
the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans."
—
George MacDonald
If we would talk less and
pray more, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we
should be better enabled to bear them.
"Sometimes God
doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway."
— Carlton
Pearson
The cross, as poignant as
it is, is understandable from a human perspective: an innocent man was murdered
by crooked politicians and religious leaders. But the empty tomb-- what can you
say? Only a supernatural God could accomplish that."
— Jim Cymbala
"Truth is not a
virtue unless it is given with love!"
— Pete Welsh
"Anyone can count the
seeds in an apple... but only God can count the apples in a seed."
"God is good, he
cares, forgives, loves us at all times. Surely we must always thank him for
what he does."
— Nancy Irene
"You are free to
choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you will have, be,
and do in the tomorrows of your life."
"He is no fool who
gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose."
— Jim Elliot
"A man may well be
condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing."
— William Barclay
"There is no
situation so chaotic that God cannot from that situation, create something that
is surpassingly good. He did it at the creation. He did it at the cross. He is
doing it today."
— Handley C. G. Moule
"We Christians must
simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern
civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The
need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today."
— A. W. Tozer
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