Time spent in prayer is not time lost, but time gained.
Unknown
Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read:
Isaiah 34:16
The King James Version
A person who tries to practice trust in God while leaving himself a backup plan is like a person who tries to learn how to swim but insists on keeping one foot on the ground.
Yosef Yozel Hurwitz
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Give all to God, take all from God, and use all for God.
F. B. Meyer
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
Psalm 111:10
The Revised Standard Version
(Written about AD 130, this is one of the earliest descriptions of Christians.)
They dwell in their own countries but simply as sojourners. As citizens, they share in all things with others, and yet endure all things as if foreigners. Every foreign land is to them as their native country, and every land of their birth as a land of strangers. They marry, as do others; they beget children; but they do not destroy their offspring. They have a common table but not a common bed. They are in the flesh, but they do not live after the flesh. They pass their days on the earth, but are citizens of heaven. They obey the prescribed laws, and at the same time surpass the laws in their lives. They love all, and are persecuted by all. They are poor, yet they make many rich; they are completely destitute, and yet they enjoy complete abundance. They are reviled, and yet they bless. When they do good they are punished as evildoers; undergoing punishment, they rejoice because they are brought to life.
Epistle to Diognetus, author unknown
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Jesus teaches that human need must always be helped; that there is no greater task than to relieve someone’s pain and distress and that the Christian’s compassion must be like God’s—unceasing. Other work may be laid aside but the work of compassion never.
William Barclay
“Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have gone astray.”
Job 6:24
The English Standard Version
It doesn’t take such a great man to be a Christian; it just takes all there is of him.
Seth Wilson
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Being a Christian means allowing the interpretation of life found in Christ Jesus to shape one’s existence. This becomes a unifying center for one’s life. It is the context in which all else is seen. It is, of all life’s considerations, the most important and it relativizes all else.
Vincent McNamara
For the mountains may move and the hills disappear, but even then my faithful love for you will remain. My covenant of blessing will never be broken,” says the Lord, who has mercy on you.
Isaiah 54:10
The New Living Translation
Now, once again loaded with responsibilities—two orphaned teenage boys, an elderly alcoholic brother, and a household- bereaved and sorrowing, ill and tired, Jack [C. S. Lewis] discovered one of the greatest secrets of life: that no matter what is actually happening around you, you can still be content if you hand your life over entirely to Christ. Jack settled into a contentment that is hard to understand. He had to retire from Cambridge University. He was no longer able to go for the long walks he had delighted in. He was not allowed to drink wine or beer, not allowed to eat anything other than a strict diet prescribed by his doctors. All the pleasures of his life had been taken away from him as also had been the love of his life [the loss of his wife], and yet he was content. He was in that rare stature in which his physical disabilities and his emotional distresses no longer affected his happiness or lack of it. He had finally become able to make God the center of his life and to regard himself as merely a bit player in the drama. He was not exactly happy; he had merely come to the conclusion that his happiness was not what he should be seeking at all. In fact it was completely irrelevant, and therefore he was content to be without it.
Douglas Gresham
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The Christian who is careless in Bible reading will be careless in Christian living.
Max I. Reich
We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.
2 Thessalonians 1:3
The New International Version
Love’s secret is to be always doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.
F. W. Faber
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Educating people to die meaningful deaths is one way to describe the teaching mission of the church.
John A. Harms
Remember what Christ taught, and let his words enrich your lives and make you wise; teach them to each other and sing them out in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing to the Lord with thankful hearts.
Colossians 3:16
The Living Bible
You can train yourself to be patient. You can train yourself to open the space between the match and the fuse.
Yechiel Yitzchok Perr
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There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness!
Thomas Carlyle
Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Proverbs 27:10
The King James Version
The Christian who is truly spiritual revels as much in his ignorance of God as in his knowledge of him.
John Blanchard
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The way we respond to criticism pretty much depends on the way we respond to praise. If praise humbles us, then criticism will build us up. But if praise inflates us, then criticism will crush us; and both responses lead to defeat.
Warren W. Wiersbe
“But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus,”
Acts 15:11
The New American Standard Bible
Now we have learned that it is the secular school student who is overprotected. He is protected from the basic facts of right and wrong. He then confronts the slings and arrows of the real world-naked.
Paul Kienel
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No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
John Bunyan
As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 Peter 4:10-11
The New King James Version
Much of what is sacred is hidden in the ordinary, everyday moments of our lives. To see something of the sacred in those moments takes slowing down so we can live our lives more reflectively.
Ken Gire
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Holiness is a state of soul in which all the powers of the body and mind are consciously given up to God.
Phoebe Palmer
May the LORD bless his people with peace!
Psalm 29:11
The English Standard Version
One day, people noticed Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, the Alter of Slabodka, enjoying a private banquet. What was the occasion? He had been told that a man in a far-off land–whom he did not know—had won a great prize. So the Alter was full of joy for him. And so he made himself a party.
Alan Morinis
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