All I am and have, both in principle and practice, is to be summed up in the one expression, the Lord’s property.

J. A. Bengel

Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life.  Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.

John 11:25-26
The New Revised Standard Version

A friend is dearer than the light of heaven; for it would be better for us that the sun were extinguished, than that we should be without friends.

John Chrysostom

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To pass from death to life is to pass from unbelief to faith, from injustice to justice, from pride to humility, from hatred to charity.

J. Gresham Machen

Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.  The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me.  I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.”

John 12:44-46
The New International Version

He who prays as he ought, will endeavor to live as he prays.

John Owen

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A dead calm is our enemy, a storm may prove our helper.  Controversy may arouse thought, and through thought may come the Divine change.

Charles H. Spurgeon

“So fear the Lord and serve him wholeheartedly. Put away forever the idols your ancestors worshiped when they lived beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord alone.”

Joshua 24:14
The New Living Translation

It is more dishonorable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is the presentation or giving away of all we have to God and our taking simply the place of servants, to receive back again just what he chooses.  This, it will be perceived, if a reality, is no easy task and can only be done in the might of the Holy Ghost; but, when it is done, when all is laid on the altar—body, soul, spirit, goods, reputation, all, all, all—then the fire of heaven descends and burns up all the dross and defilement, and fills the souls with burning love and zeal and power.

William Booth

Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved!

Psalm 80:3
The English Standard Version

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray.  The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

Oswald Chambers

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To heal our souls God uses all kinds of means.

Augustine

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Romans 8:18
The New King James Version

I do not know when I have had happier times in my soul, than when I have been sitting at work, with nothing before me but a candle and a white cloth, and sharing no sound but that of my own breath, with God in my soul and heaven in my eye…I rejoice in being exactly what I am,—a creature capable of loving God, and who, as long as God lives, must be happy.  I get up and look for a while out of the window, and gaze at the moon and stars, the work of an Almighty hand.  I think of the grandeur of the universe, and then sit down, and think myself one of the happiest beings in it.

A poor Methodist woman, 18th century

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Let him who wants to counsel others faithfully, first have some experience himself, first carry the cross himself, and lead the way by his example.

Martin Luther

And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Luke 6:31
The English Standard Version

It is easier to gaze into the sun,
than into the face of the mystery of God.
Such is its beauty and its radiance.

Hildegard of Bingen

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Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.

John Bunyan

My child, listen and be wise: Keep your heart on the right course.  Do not carouse with drunkards or feast with gluttons, for they are on their way to poverty, and too much sleep clothes them in rags.

Proverbs 23:19-21
The New Living Translation

God’s center is everywhere.  His circumference is nowhere.

Thomas Watson

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Fatih, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely, does not even ask Him for the lifting of the darkness.

Phillips Brooks

Who is wise?  Let them realize these things.  Who is discerning?  Let them understand.  The ways of the Lord are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.

Hosea 14:9
The New International Version

Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but, looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature—loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.  Such friends seem inspired by the divine gift of prophecy—like the mother of St. Augustine, who, in the midst of the wayward, reckless youth of her son, beheld him in a vision standing clothed in white, a ministering priest at the right hand of God, as he has stood for long ages since.

H. B. Stowe

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Reverential reading includes attention, exertion of mind, and earnestness.  Not memory but conscience; not intellect but the heart…can enable us to use Scripture aright.

Adolph Saphir

John the Baptist, who was now in prison, heard about all the miracles the Messiah was doing, so he sent his disciples to ask Jesus, “Are you really the one we are waiting for, or shall we keep on looking?”  Jesus told them, “Go back to John and tell him about the miracles you’ve seen me do—the blind people I’ve healed, and the lame people now walking without help, and the cured lepers, and the deaf who hear, and the dead raised to life; and tell him about my preaching the Good News to the poor.  Then give him this message, ‘Blessed are those who don’t doubt me.’”

Matthew 11:2-6
The Living Bible

If you dare to believe that you are beloved before you are born, you may suddenly realize that your life is very, very special.  You become conscious that you were sent here just for a short time, for twenty, forty, or eighty years, to discover and believe.

Henri Nouwen

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Love Him and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Thomas à Kempis

But the meek shall inherit the earth, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Psalm 37:11
The New King James Version

Have your tools ready and God will supply the work.

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