Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms…Confusion here is fatal.

J. I. Packer

Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity.  I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord.”  And you forgave the guilt of my sin.

Psalm 32:5
The New International Version

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

John Bunyan

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Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness.

William Arthur Ward

Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; he does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

John 5:24
The Revised Standard Version

While I was visiting a friend, her three-year-old daughter was frequently interrupting her housework by insisting that her mother “come outside and see.”  She would then excitedly show her mother a flower, a butterfly, a broken bird’s egg, or a crawling ant.  After the umpteenth interruption, I commented, “You’re awfully patient with her, but all these little trips must nearly wreck your daily routine.  Don’t you ever just want to scream?”  “Well,” the mother replied cheerfully, “I brought her into the world.  The least I can do is let her show it to me.”

Betty Stephans

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Prayer helps to form the “steel of spirituality” within the soul.
Prayer imparts a peace within “as high as the mountain, as deep as the sea”—creating a Christlike serenity of soul.
Prayer generates courage within, and I stand erect, taller of soul, in converse with God, listening to the whisperings of His will, and learn the great lesson of life, that this world is merely a place to grow souls in, and that this life is only the introduction to life eternal.
Prayer and faith, inseparable companions, plant a garden in the soul, and in this wondrous garden roses bloom not only in December but all the year round.
Prayer is the time-exposure of the soul to the highest that we know.
Prayer sinks a shaft deep into our lives where the real and lasting values of life abide.
Prayer lights a candle in the soul, by whose radiant light we discover the God-shaped space in our heart, reserved for Him in our creation.
Prayer is a battlefield on which the issues of life are determined.
Prayer takes away dimness from the soul and clarifies our vision.
Prayer is a spiritual gymnasium in which we exercise and practice for godliness.
Prayer is essential to a full-flowing of the spiritual life.  The soul deprived of the experience and inspirations of prayer is like a plant that comes to the point of blossoming but never blooms.
Prayer is being “in the secret place with Jesus”—a place of spiritual retreat and of soul-refreshment.
Prayer imparts what we may call a tang to spiritual life.  We are admonished to be the salt of the earth, and prayer furnishes the salt.
Prayer is a trellis, supporting the vines and flowers of the spirit as they climb heavenward, considering of love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, faith, meekness, temperance.
Prayer helps us in building a “Cathedral of Character” in the soul, building it of things spiritual, which have survival value, and which we can carry into the eternal life with us.
Prayer is a cleansing process, waking our thoughts, feelings, motives, and will, purifying the entire being including the heart, thus enabling us to see God, for without purity no one can see God.
Prayer is the greatest spiritual asset in the world.

V. L. Crawford

Seek the Lord while you can find him.  Call on him now while he is near.  Let the wicked change their ways and banish the very thought of doing wrong.  Let them turn to the Lord that he may have mercy on them.  Yes, turn to our God, for he will forgive generously.

Isaiah 55:6-7
The New Living Translation

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses, and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Joseph Askinas

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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

Vance Havner

“O death, where is your victory?  O death, where is your sting?”  The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.  But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:55-57
The English Standard Version

Words can be icicles, chilling to hear
Or coarse, stinging nettles, drawing a tear.
Words can be rose thorns, to give you a start,
Or swiftly flung daggers that plunge to the heart.
Ghosts of some sorrow that should be long past,
Dragons of anger, that resist to the last,
Locks on a door, without any key—
These are the sad things words can be.

But words can be droplets of freshening rain,
Or invisible fingers to brush away pain.
Words can form shelters for someone afraid,
Or trumpets of hope or a soldier’s swift blade.
Medals of honor for bravery done,
Kisses of thanks as warm as the sun,
Doors that were shut, swinging open and free—
These are the glad things words can be.

Lou Ann Welte

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Every vocation is holy to the Lord.  Our vocation, or work, is an extension of our personal relationship with God.  Ninety-five percent of us will never be in “occupational” ministry, but that doesn’t mean we are not ministers.

Patrick Morley

This is my comfort in my affliction that thy promise gives me life.

Psalm 119:50
The Revised Standard Version

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

C. S. Lewis

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For the multitude of world friends profiteth not, nor may strong helpers anything avail, nor wise counselors give profitable counsel, nor the cunning of doctors give consolation, nor richness deliver in time of need…if Thou, Lord, do not assist, help, comfort, counsel, inform, and defend.

Thomas a Kempis

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Romans 5:3-5
The King James Version

God’s best gifts come quietly, like the scent growth of crops or the flowering of a garden, like marsh marigolds lifting yellow heads beside the brook or the hushed resurrection of faith in a soul where it had seemed to die.  No ear can hear their coming—the cautious steps of mature thoughts in the mind of a growing child, the advent of a holy and lasting love in the heart of a man or maid, or the approach of a prodigal son to the Father’s house.

Harold E. Kohn

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You haven’t lost anything when you know where it is.  Death can hide but not divide.

Vance Havner

“Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods?  Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?”

Exodus 15:11
The English Standard Version

A few months after moving to a small town a woman complained to a neighbor about the poor service at the local drug store.  She hoped the new acquaintance would repeat her complaint to the owner.  Next time she went to the drug store, the druggist greeted her with a big smile, told her how happy he was to see her again.  He said he hoped she liked their town and to please let him know if there was anything he could do to help her and her husband get settled.  He then filled her order promptly and efficiently.  Later the woman reported the miraculous change to her friend.  “I suppose you told the druggist how poor I thought the service was?” she asked.  “Well, no” the woman said.  “In fact—and I hope you don’t mind—I told him you were amazed at the way he had built up this small town drug store, and that you thought it was one of the best run drug stores you’d ever seen.”

Unknown

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Each day we all get twenty-four hours.  There is democracy in God’s bestowal of time.  There is real aristocracy in the way we use it, however, for some waste it by not using it or by spending it on their own ambitions while others enrich it by making everything subservient to God’s purpose for life: to learn to know, use, and enjoy life, the very center of which is made up of personal relations.

Nels F. S. Ferre

The Lord remembers us and will bless us: He will bless his people Israel, he will bless the house of Aaron, he will bless those who fear the Lord—small and great alike.

Psalm 115:12-13
The New International Version

Joy is the flag flying over the citadel of the soul indicating that the King is in residence.

Unknown

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Resolved: Very much to exercise myself in this, all my life long, namely, with the greatest openness of which I am capable, to declare my ways to God, and lay open my soul to Him, all my sins, temptations, difficulties, sorrows, fears, hopes, desires, and everything, and every circumstance.

Jonathan Edwards

Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.

Proverbs 14:9
The King James Version

ARE YE ABLE?
Able to suffer without complaining,
To be misunderstood without explaining;
Able to endure without a breaking,
To be forsaken without forsaking;
Able to give without receiving,
To be ignored without any grieving;
Able to ask without commanding,
To love despite misunderstanding;
Able to turn to the Lord for guarding,
Able to wait for His own rewarding.

Brenton Thoburn Badley

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“O God,” I cried, and that was all.  But what are the prayers of all the universe more than expansions of that one cry?  It is not what God can give us, but God that we want.

George MacDonald

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!  By his great mercy we have been born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and to an inheritance which is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

1 Peter 1:3-5
The Revised Standard Version

God’s plan will continue on God’s schedule.

A. W. Tozer

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