By personal calling and Scripture, I am bound to the Word of God and to the preaching (teaching, writing, speaking, etc.) of what the Bible says.  There are few things that burden me more or refresh me more than saying what I see in the Bible.

John Piper

Oh, send out your light and your truth—let them lead me. Let them lead me to your Temple on your holy mountain, Zion.

Psalm 43:3
The Living Bible

When a young minister was still single, he preached a sermon he entitled “Rules for Raising Children.”  After he got married and had children of his own, he changed the title of the sermon to “Suggestions for Raising Children.”  When his children got to be teen-agers, he stopped preaching on that subject altogether.

Bernard Brunsting

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All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don’t know what, are the wants which neither God nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.

William Law

“Can you search out the deep things of God?  Can you find out the limits of the Almighty?  They are higher than heaven—what can you do?  Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?  Their measure is longer than the earth And broader than the sea.”

Job 11:7-9
The New King James Version

A woman passenger on an airliner was sitting next to a clergyman.  She became increasingly nervous as the jet ran into thunder squalls and began to be buffeted by severe downdrafts and crosswinds.  After one particularly alarming air pocket that must had dropped the plane several hundred feet, the woman looked at the minister and said, “Please sir, can’t you do something that will stop this storm and save our lives?”  “I’m sorry, madam,” he replied, “but I’m connected with sales, not with management.”

Sunshine Magazine

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Joy is not the absence of sadness or the presence of the spectacular.  It’s the undercurrent of understanding God’s goodness in every season.

Tauren Wells

Do not repay anyone evil for evil.  Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone.  If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.

Romans 12:17-18
The New International Version

One of the most joyful people I’ve ever met was a Native American woman from Arizona.  She grew up in a large and terribly poor family.  Still, they shared everything they had with their friends and neighbors.  When they were down to their last five dollars, her father would always say: “Let’s have a party!”  He’d spend that five dollars on ice cream and invite all the neighbors to come over.  By God’s grace her family always had all that they needed.  Even in the pits of depression, we, too, can throw a party.  We are the children of a loving God!  We can rejoice in the sure hope that God will get us through any trial or tribulation.

John J. Boucher

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Acceptances says, “True, this is my situation at the moment.  I’ll look unblinkingly at the reality of it.  But I’ll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.”

Catherine Marshall

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.  It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.

Isaiah 35:1-2
The King James Version

The world has yet to see what God can do with and for and through and in a man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Christ.

Henry Varley

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When we yield to discouragement, it is usually because we give too much thought to the past or to the future.

Therese of Lisieux

Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.  For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

Ecclesiastes 7:11-12
The King James Version

Peace is our final good.

Augustine

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Not what the disciple says in public prayer, not what he preaches from pulpit or platform, not what he writes on paper or in letters, but what he is in his heart which God alone knows, determines God’s revelation of himself to him.  Character determines revelation.

Oswald Chambers

Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.

Proverbs 11:25
The English Standard Version

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace.  And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace.

Jerry Bridges

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To obey God in some things and not in others shows an unsound heart.  Childlike obedience moves toward every command of God, as the needle points where the lodestone draws.

Thomas Watson

“You are the light of the world.  A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.  Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.  In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”

Matthew 5:14-16
The English Standard Version

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Benjamin Franklin

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In times of dryness and desolation we must be patient, and wait with resignation the return of consolation, putting our trust in the goodness of God.  We must animate ourselves by the thought that God is always with us, that he only allows this trial for our greater good, and that we have not necessarily lost his grace because we have lost the taste and feeling of it.

Ignatius of Loyola

“Return, you backsliding children, And I will heal your backslidings.    Indeed we do come to You, For You are the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 3:22
The New King James Version

Every Sunday the ducks waddle out of their houses and waddle down Main Street to their church.  They waddle into the sanctuary and squat in their proper pews.  The duck choir waddles in and takes its place, then the duck minister comes forward and opens the duck Bible.  He reads to them:  “Ducks!  God has given you wings!  With wings you can fly!  With wings you can mount up and soar like eagles.  No walls can confine you!  No fences can hold you!  You have wings.  God has given you wings and you can fly like birds!”  All the ducks shouted, “Amen!”  And they all waddled home.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Obedience must be the struggle and desire of our life.  Obedience, not hard and forced, but ready, loving and spontaneous; the doing of duty, not merely that the duty may be done, but that the soul in doing it may become capable of receiving and uttering God.

Phillips Brooks

The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand.  The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by night.  The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.  The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and for evermore.

Psalm 121:5-8
The Revised Standard Version

Half the world is unhappy because it can’t have the things that are making the other half unhappy.

Unknown

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The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service.  The new order must wait the Lord’s own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry.  He just gives up and becomes interested in something else.

A. W. Tozer

I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

Isaiah 63:7
The King James Version

Nature has some perfections, to show that she is the image of God; and some defects, to show that she is only His image.

Blaise Pascal

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