Forsake thyself, resign thyself, and thou shalt enjoy great inward peace.

Thomas à Kempis

For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.  But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

1 Corinthians 1:26-29
The English Standard Version

Would you see true beauty?  Look at the pious man or woman in whom spirit dominates matter; watch him when he prays, when a ray of the divine beauty glows upon him when his prayer is ended; you will see the beauty of God shining in his face.

Girolamo Savonarola

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Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking.  To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking.  Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

Norman Vincent Peale

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

Proverbs 29:2
The New Revised Standard Version

With God, even when nothing is happening—something is happening.

Reuben Welch

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Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right.  The former look to the end, to judge of the act.  Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.

Joseph Hall

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord!  Awake as in the ancient days, In the generations of old.

Isaiah 51:9
The New King James Version

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence.  Grandmother was that person to me.

Phyllis Theroux

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The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

Charles L. Allen

Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury.  Many rich people threw in large amounts.  But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.  Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.  They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”

Mark 12:41-44
The New International Version

Be sober, as God’s athlete.  The prize is incorruption and life eternal.

Ignatius of Antioch

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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.  No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction.

John Donne

For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

Romans 6:10
The New King James Version

If there are a thousand steps between us and God, he will take all but one.  He will leave the final one for us.  The choice is ours.

Max Lucado

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The Greek New Testament word for overflowing divine love is agape…God’s own love spontaneously to all creatures, not by reason of their worth or merit, not moved by any gain for himself, not caused by any external force or value, but coming freely from his boundless generosity.

Paul E. Johnson

O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and for evermore.

Psalm 131:3
The Revised Standard Version

If I weep at night, give me joy in the morning.

Puritan prayer

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Why art thou troubled, that all things come not to thee as thou desirest?  Who is he that hath all things at his own will?  There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.

Thomas à Kempis

Let brotherly love continue.  Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.

Hebrews 13:1-2
The New King James Version

The wonderful thing about God’s schoolroom is that we get to grade our own papers.  You see, He doesn’t test us so He can learn how well we’re doing.  He tests us so we can discover how well we’re doing.

Charles Swindoll

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The question “Are we doing well?” is unrealistic; there are no measures.  The test is: “Are we doing right?”  For that, there is a measure—what Christ has told us to do.

Frank J. Sheed

Kind words are like honey—enjoyable and healthful.

Proverbs 16:24
The Living Bible

A famous philanthropist was once asked, “How are you able to give so much, and still have so much?”  “Well,” replied the generous man, “as I shovel out, He shovels in; and the Lord has a bigger shovel than I have.”

Unknown

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We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls.  As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which we seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul’s beauty.

Teresa of Avila

So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.  When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.  Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.”  The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”  Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.  And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!”  Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”  So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household.

John 4:46-53
The New King James Version

Contentment doesn’t mean getting all you want, but enjoying what you have.  Don’t postpone enjoyment!

Lisa Engelhardt

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True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained.  It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.

François Fénelon

One day soon afterward Jesus went up on a mountain to pray, and he prayed to God all night.

Luke 6:12
The New Living Translation

The Bible was not given to increase our knowledge but to change our lives.

D. L. Moody

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