The best prayer I can imagine is simple: God, help me see things as they really are.
Kate Bowler
“For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”
Luke 17:21
The New King James Version
Lord, we have wandered forth through doubt and sorrow,
And Thou hast made each step an onward one;
And we will ever trust each unknown morrow,—
Thou wilt sustain us till its work is done.
Samuel Johnson
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The fact is there is nothing that we are doing that God could not raise up a stone in the field to do for him. The realization of this puts us in our true place. Though, lest we get too knocked down by such a realization of our insignificance, let me hasten to add that there is one thing that we alone can give God…and that is our personal love. No one else can give God our personal love. This is our great significance.
M. Basil Pennington
Now I say that each believer should confess his sins to God when he is aware of them, while there is time to be forgiven. Judgment will not touch him if he does.
Psalm 32:6
The Living Bible
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy—whether he knows it or not.
O. A. Battista
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Discernment in its fullness takes a practiced heart, fine-tuned to hear the word of God and the single-mindedness to follow that word in love. It is truly a gift from God, but not one dropped from the skies fully formed. It is a gift cultivated by a prayerful life and the search for self-knowledge.
Ernest Larkin
“If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the Lord, and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Isaiah 58:13-14
The New International Version
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
Anne Lamott
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It can be easy for us to get discouraged with a no, but if we trust that God is directing our path, then we won’t receive it as a rejection but as a redirection.
Deb Hopper
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Ephesians 5:20
The King James Version
I rest beneath the Almighty’s shade,
My griefs expire, my troubles cease;
Thou, Lord, on whom my soul is stayed,
Wilt keep me still in perfect peace.
Charles Wesley
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The whole history of the Christian life is a series of resurrections. Every time a man finds his heart is troubled, that he is not rejoicing in God, a resurrection must follow; a resurrection out of the night of troubled thought into the gladness of the truth.
George MacDonald
Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for him to act.
Psalm 37:7
The New Living Translation
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn’t be a great moral teacher. He’d be either a lunatic—on a level with a man who says he’s a poached egg—or else he’d be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He hasn’t left that open to us. He didn’t intend to.
C. S. Lewis
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Guide me, O Lord, in all the changes and varieties of the world; that in all things that shall happen, I may have an evenness and tranquility of spirit; that my soul may be wholly resigned to Thy divine will and pleasure, never murmuring at Thy gentle chastisements and fatherly correction. Amen.
Jeremy Taylor
“But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Joshua 24:15
The New King James Version
Faith furnishes prayer with wings, without which it cannot soar to Heaven.
John Climacus
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The crosses which we make for ourselves by a restless anxiety as to the future, are not crosses which come from God. We show want of faith in Him by our false wisdom, wishing to forestall His arrangements, and struggling to supplement His Providence by our own providence. The future is not yet ours; perhaps it never will be. If it comes, it may come wholly different from what we have foreseen. Let us shut our eyes, then, to that which God hides from us, and keeps in reserve in the treasures of His deep counsels. Let us worship without seeing; let us be silent; let us abide in peace.
François Fénelon
The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.
Deuteronomy 33:12
The King James Version
If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.
Corrie ten Boom
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In this world we taste but the beginning of Christ’s kingdom.
John Calvin
Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
1 Peter 1:8-9
The English Standard Version
Are you a happy Christian or a sad Christian?
Are you a brave Christian or a fearful Christian?
Are you a calm Christian or a worrying Christian?
Are you a content Christian or a dissatisfied Christian?
Are you a peaceful Christian or a troubled Christian?
Are you a witnessing Christian or a silent Christian?
Are you a praying Christian or a lost Christian?
R. R. Ball
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We tend to misunderstand the link between joy and gratefulness. We notice that joyful people are grateful and suppose that they are grateful for their joy. But the reverse is true: Their joy springs from gratefulness.
David Steindl-Rast
For only we who believe God can enter into his place of rest.
Hebrews 4:3
The Living Bible
Nothing is too little to be ordered by our Father; nothing too little in which to see His hand; nothing, which touches our souls, too little to accept from Him; nothing too little to be done to Him.
E. B. Pusey
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Give up yourself to God without reserve; in singleness of heart, meeting everything that every day brings forth, as something that comes from God, and is to be received and gone through by you, in such an heavenly use of it, as you would suppose the holy Jesus would have done, in such occurrences. This is an attainable degree of perfection.
William Law
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.
Psalm 116:7
The King James Version
Faith is simply taking God at His word.
Unknown
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