It requires moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

Soren Kierkegaard

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.  Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

Psalm 51:1-2
The New International Version

We are, after all, like lumps of clay.
There are brittle pieces, hard pieces.
We have little shape or beauty.
But we need not despair.
If we are clay, let us remember there is a
Potter, and His wheel.

Peter Marshall

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My mind is absorbed with the sufferings of man.  Since I was twenty-four there never has been any vagueness in my plans or ideas as to what God’s work was for me.

Florence Nightingale

“O Sovereign Lord! You made the heavens and earth by your strong hand and powerful arm. Nothing is too hard for you!”

Jeremiah 32:17
The New Living Translation

A boy sang in our choir, Joey, who was not quite bright.  He would never leave the tabernacle at night till he could shake my hand.  He would stand right next to me until the last man had gone in order to say good-bye.  It was embarrassing at times.  One evening a man came forward to speak to me.  He said, “I want to thank you for being so kind to Joey.  He isn’t quite bright and has never had anything he enjoyed so much as coming here and singing in the choir.  He has worked hard during the day in order to be ready in time to come here at night.  He has coaxed us to come too, and it is through him that my wife and our five children have been led to the Lord.  His grandfather, seventy-five years old and an infidel all his life, and his grandmother have come tonight, and now the whole family is converted.”

Homer Rodeheaver, Billy Sunday’s choir leader

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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength.  It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift

Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

Deuteronomy 5:33
The King James Version

You are not tempted because you are evil; you are tempted because you are human.

Fulton J. Sheen

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Don’t make the mistake of taking your will for God’s will.

Unknown

Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it, but folly is the chastisement of fools.

Proverbs 16:22
The Revised Standard Version

Back of the bread is snowy flour;
And back of the flour the mill.
And back of the mill is the wheat and the shower,
And the sun and Father’s will.

Maltbie D. Babcock

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We learn from Saul’s failure that the surrendered life is the only secure and truly successful life.

Henrietta C. Mears

It is good to praise the Lord and make music to your name, O Most High, proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night,

Psalm 92:1-2
The New International Version

Many Christians estimate difficulties in the light of their own resources, and thus attempt little and often fail in the little they attempt.  All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence being with them.

J. Hudson Taylor

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Use what you have, that you may have more to use.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Your dead shall live; Together with my dead body they shall arise.  Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; For your dew is like the dew of herbs, And the earth shall cast out the dead.

Isaiah 26:19
The New King James Version

An old schoolmaster said one day to a clergyman, who came to examine his school, “I believe the children know the catechism word for word.”  “But do they understand it?  That is the question,” said the clergyman.  The schoolmaster bowed respectfully, and the examination began.  A little boy had repeated the fifth commandment, “Honor thy father and thy mother,” and he was asked to explain it.  Instead of trying to do so, the little boy, with his face covered with blushes, said, almost in a whisper, “Yesterday I showed some strange man over the mountain, and the sharp stones cut my feet.  The man saw they were bleeding, and gave me some money to buy shoes.  I gave it to my mother, for she had no shoes either, and I thought I could go barefooted better than she could.”

Unknown

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It was Paul who had malaria and poor eyesight, who was whipped, imprisoned, stoned and shipwrecked who said, “God has turned my life into a pageant of triumph.

A. Bonningram

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.  In him was life, and the life was the light of men.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

John 1:1-5
The English Standard Version

In answer to a query about working on Sunday…”It should not detract from a man’s reverence to do what is required.  Even Jesus spoke about the ox in the ditch on the Sabbath.  But if your ox gets in the ditch every Sabbath, you should either get rid of the ox or fill up the ditch.”

Billy Graham

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A life of victory hinges upon three things: an act, a purpose, and a habit: an initial act, a fixed purpose, a daily habit.  The initial act is that of personal surrender to the Lord Jesus as Master.  The fixed purpose is that of doing what will please Him, and only that, at every turn, in every matter, regardless of consequences.  The daily habit is that of spending a quiet time daily in prayer alone with the Lord over His Word.  After the initial act of surrender, the secret of a strong, winsome Christian life is in spending time daily alone with God over His Word in prayer.

S. D. Gordon

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

Romans 5:19
The New International Version

There is not a single believer who from time to time has not had some hesitations about the existence of God.  But these moments of hesitation are not harmful.  On the contrary, they lead us to a better understanding of God.

Leo Tolstoy

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Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, our selves, our lives, our loved ones, over all into His hands.  When you have given all unto God, there will be nothing left for you to be troubled about.

J. Hudson Taylor

Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake.

Psalm 6:4
The King James Version

The fellow who’s really in trouble is one who’s in bad company when he’s alone.

Unknown

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Every trial that we pass through is capable of being the seed of a noble character.  Every temptation that we meet in the path of duty is another chance of filling our souls with the power of Heaven.

Frederick Temple

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.

2 Corinthians 8:9
The Revised Standard Version

To love means loving the unlovable.  To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable.  Faith means believing the unbelievable.  Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

G. K. Chesterton

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