Christian Wisdom

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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.


-Anne Lamott

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God takes us into deep waters, not to drown us but to cleanse us.


-Unknown

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The income of God's Word is the outcome of a changed life.


-Ed Cole

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Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now I see.


-John Newton, "Amazing Grace"

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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.


-William Blake

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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't."


-Oswald Chambers

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God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies.

-Hudson Taylor

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Heaven is a gift, a gift that's given to you for your faith in Jesus. Faith at that level is a choice.

-Anne Graham Lotz

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Work as if everything depended on you and pray as if everything depended on God.

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Christ came to heal the sick, not the well or self-sufficient.

-Professor Paul Krishna, a former Hindu

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Being positive in thinking right is a godly principle.


-Joyce Meyer

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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves.

-C.S. Lewis

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Just as darkness retreats before light, so all anger and bitterness disappear for the fragrance of humility.

-John Climacus

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Since God offers to manage our affairs for us, let us once and for all hand them over to His infinite wisdom, in order to occupy ourselves only with Himself and what belongs to Him.


-J.P. de Caussade

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We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God

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You’ve got to believe that God is in control of your life. It may be a tough time but you’ve got to believe that God has a reason for it and he’s going to make everything good.


-Joel Osteen

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"God, help me not to be overly confident in
myself but properly dependent on You. Help me see
how You are molding and making me to serve as
Your witness."
Woodrow Kroll

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"John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you
with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of
whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you
with the Holy Ghost and with fire:" (Luke 3:16)

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Joy is Thy gift, O Father!
Thou wouldst not have us pine;
In darkest hours Thy comfort
Doth aye most brightly shine;
Ah, then how oft Thy voice
Hath shed its sweetness o'er me,
And opened heaven before me,
And bid my heart rejoice!
--PAUL GERHARDT

TO be with God, in whatever stage of being, under
whatever conditions of existence, is to be in
heaven.
--DORA GREENWELL

I perceive we postpone all our joys of Christ,
till He and we be in our own house above,
thinking that there is nothing of it here to be
sought or found, but only hope and fair promises;
and that Christ will give us nothing here but
tears, sadness, crosses; and that we shall never
feel the smell of the flowers of that high garden
of paradise above, till we come there. Nay, but I
find it possible to find young glory, and a young
green paradise of joy even here. We dream of
hunger in Christ's house, while we are here,
although He alloweth feasts to all the bairns
within God's household.
--SAMUEL RUTHERFORD

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Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.

-Hebrew 13:2

[flickchic]

You’ve got to believe that God is in control of your life. It may be a tough time but you’ve got to believe that God has a reason for it and he’s going to make everything good.
May I continue to have faith and believe.

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Christ is a jewel of more worth than a thousand worlds, as all know who have him. Get him, and get all; miss him and miss all.

-Thomas Brooks

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Self-Confidence looks inward ~ God-confidence looks upward! -- Donna Partow

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Maybe you have a hard believing that God likes you; maybe you don't even like yourself. But it's true. God not only loves you; He likes you...Take flight and soar with total God-Confidence! -- Donna Partow

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The will of God for your life is simply that you submit yourself to Him each day and say, "Father, Your will for today is mine. Your pleasure for today is mine. Your work for today is mine. I trust You to be God. You lead me today and I will follow."
Kay Arthur

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"Am I willing and determined
to hand over my simple naked self
to God?"

Oswald Chambers

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Resurrection was, is and ever shall be
the pre-eminent act of God
in history and throughout eternity
that distinguished Christ
from all other so-called gods.

Anne Murchison

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Do your utmost to guard your heart, for out of it comes life.

-Walter Hilton

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MORNING HYMN
Others, Lord, yes, others,
Let this my motto be.
Help me to live for others,
That I might live like Thee.

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God wants to bless His people as they seize new opportunities to participate in His work.

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MORNING HYMN
Be still, my soul: the Lord is on thy side;
Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain;
Leave to thy God to order and provide;
In every change He faithful will remain.

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Sometimes the cross of grieve and pain gives us no choice but to draw on that faith that is being put to the test. Spiritual gowth was not going to be free.

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All those who have walked with God have viewed prayer as the main business of their lives.
~ Delma Jackson

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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
~ Charles Horton Cooley

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This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ.


-Frank McKibben

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Many words do not a good prayer make; what counts is the heartfelt desire to commune with God, and the faith to back it up.
~ Anonymous

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How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing...it is irresistible. If even 10 percent of the world’s population had it, would not the whole world be converted and happy before the year’s end?

-C.S. Lewis

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WHAT God may hereafter require of you, you must
not give yourself the least trouble about.
Everything He gives you to do, you must do as
well as ever you can, and that is the best
possible preparation for what He may want you to
do next. If people would but do what they have to
do, they would always find themselves ready for
what came next.
GEORGE MACDONALD

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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

-John Calvin

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I am not where I need to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

-Joyce Meyers

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Remember, sinner, it is not your hold of Christ that saves you -- it is Christ.

-C.H. Spurgeon