Don’t try to reach God with your understanding; that is impossible.  Reach him in love; that is possible.

Carlo Carretto

The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

Psalm 12:6
The English Standard Version

If God were to send two angels to earth, the one to occupy a throne, and the other to clean a road, they would each regard their employment as equally distinguished and equally happy.

Frederick William Faber

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I thank thee, O Lord, that thou hast so set eternity within my heart that no earthly thing can ever satisfy me wholly.

John Baillie

There, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice in everything you have put your hand to, because the Lord your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 12:7
The New International Version

A tried Christian grows rich by his losses, he rises by his falls, he lives by dying, and he becomes full by being emptied.

C. H. Spurgeon

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A religious man who says in his heart there is a God receives his life daily by divine appointment as a gift and a task set before him.

Paul Ramsey

Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things.  For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.  Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him.  Who are you to judge another’s servant?  To his own master he stands or falls.  Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

Romans 14:1-4
The New King James Version

To forget oneself is to be happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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To believe in God must mean to live in such a manner that life could not possibly be lived if God did not exist.

Jacques Maritain

Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.

Proverbs 23:4
The English Standard Version

The Bible is, as it were, a kind of river, if I may so liken it, which is both shallow and deep, wherein both the lamb may find footing and the elephant float at large.

Gregory the Great

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Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

Matthew Henry

I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong.  I love God’s law with all my heart.  But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind.  This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.  Oh, what a miserable person I am!  Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?  Thank God!  The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord.  So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.

Romans 7:21-25
The New Living Translation

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God.  He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.

A. W. Tozer

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The reason why our public life is so disordered and our private life so hampered by anxiety is because we will not be still and know God.

A. Maude Royden

Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

Mark 9:23
The New King James Version

Determine to want what God wants.

Unknown

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If there is anything in this life which sustains a wise man and induces him to maintain his serenity amidst the tribulations and adversities of the world, it is in the first place, I consider, the meditation and knowledge of the Scriptures.

Jerome

Oh come, let us sing to the Lord!  Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.  Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.  For the Lord is the great God, And the great King above all gods.  In His hand are the deep places of the earth; The heights of the hills are His also.  The sea is His, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land.

Psalm 95:1-5
The New King James Version

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Thomas à Kempis

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Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices do not constitute the aim of our Christian life: they are but the indispensable means of attaining that aim.  For the true aim of the Christian life is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God.

Seraphim of Sarov

Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.  And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?  Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.  If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.  He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

John 7:14-18
The King James Version

Everyone has at least one sermon in him.

Unknown

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I will govern my life and my thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other.  For what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open.

Seneca

Therefore, let us offer through Jesus a continual sacrifice of praise to God, proclaiming our allegiance to his name.  And don’t forget to do good and to share with those in need.  These are the sacrifices that please God.

Hebrews 13:15-16
The New Living Translation

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

The Book of Common Prayer

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The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

Matthew Henry

Early in the morning they left for the Desert of Tekoa.  As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah and people of Jerusalem!  Have faith in the Lord your God and you will be upheld; have faith in his prophets and you will be successful.”

2 Chronicles 20:20
The New International Version

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you.

Thomas Aquinas

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