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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Yes, it is true, if you seek the Lord and yet are unwilling to stop your sinning, you shall not find Him. Why? Because you are seeking Him in a place where He is not.
You study the lines on your face, the bulge in your belly and the gray hairs creeping up. So why is it so hard to study something that changes your life—from the inside out?
If we would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For He who giveth us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do but trust in His grace.
The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by midnight.
Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.
There is nothing that makes us love someone so much as praying for them.
The Lord sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
Be faithful in the little practices of love which will build in you the life of holiness and make you Christlike.
No one should fear to understake any task in the name of our Savior, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. The working out of all things has been assigned to each person by our Lord, but it all happens according to His sovereign will.
I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time, to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn't do if it were the last hour of my life.
Give me a hundred men who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I will shake the world. I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; and such alone will overthrow the kingdom of Satan and build up the kingdom of God on earth.
A saint is never consciously a saint—a saint is consciously dependent on God.
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to that which is known to us of nature.
Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.
If you're willing to stand forever, then you won't be standing very long.
Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it.
Before God we are all equally wise—and equally foolish.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
The greatest enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but good choices which are not quite good enough.
We are what we believe we are.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Christianity is not simply a doctrine: it is an encounter in faith with God made present in our history through the incarnation of Jesus.
No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
You've nothing to fear if you know where and how to stand.
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
You awake us to delight in Your praise; for You made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.
The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.
Christians who allow themselves to be shaped by secular culture are guilty, not only of betraying God, but of losing their own true selves.
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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service.
Planned books:
- Reduce Me to Love: Unlocking the Secret for Lasting Joy by Joyce Meyer
Current books:
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If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer by Oswald Chambers
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The Illumined Heart: The Ancient Christian Path of Transformation by Frederica Mathewes-Green
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The Divine Hours, Volume II: Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime (Divine Hours) by Phyllis Tickle
Recent books:
- The Little Book of Hours: Praying With the Community of Jesus by The Community of Jesus
- Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness by Andrew Murray