All but God is changing day by day.
Charles Kingsley
For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
1 Corinthians 9:16
The English Standard Version
We must not so much as taste of the devil’s broth, lest at last he bring us to eat of his beef.
Thomas Hall
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Religion consists not in knowing many things but in practicing the few plain things we know.
Joseph Glanvill
It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
Jeremiah 10:12
The English Standard Version
Church member to minister after the service: “You were really good this morning!”
Modestly, the minister replies, “Oh, it wasn’t me; it was the Lord.”
Church member: “You weren’t that good!”
Unknown
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They were services like no others, these times in Barracks 28, within our concentration camp. A single meeting night might include a recital of the Magnificat in Latin by a group of Roman Catholics, a whispered hymn by some Lutherans, and a sotto-voce chant by Eastern Orthodox women. With each moment the crowd around us would swell, packing the nearby platforms, hanging over the edges, until the high structures groaned and swayed. At last either Betsie or I would open the Bible. Because only the Hollanders could understand the Dutch text we would translate aloud in German. And then we would hear the life-giving words passed back along the aisles in French, Polish, Russian, Czech, back into Dutch. They were little previews of heaven, these evenings beneath the light bulb.
Corrie ten Boom
Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold; For wisdom is better than rubies, And all the things one may desire cannot be compared with her.
Proverbs 8:10-11
The New King James Version
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
French proverb
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Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest: prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts; it is the daughter of charity and the sister of meekness.
Jeremy Taylor
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 121:7-8
The Revised Standard Version
The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples.
John Wesley
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The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know what they mean when in it.
Richard Cecil
Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
The New International Version
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
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A great many people are always ready to pray when the devil gets them into trouble; but when they get out of trouble they soon forget God.
Unknown
When I am with those whose consciences bother them easily, I don’t act as though I know it all and don’t say they are foolish; the result is that they are willing to let me help them. Yes, whatever a person is like, I try to find common ground with him so that he will let me tell him about Christ and let Christ save him. I do this to get the Gospel to them and also for the blessing I myself receive when I see them come to Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:22-23
The Living Bible
When a man told the clergyman he disapproved of organized religion, the latter assured him that his was the most disorganized one available.
Victor Solomon
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That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.
Gilbert Burnet
Keep your eyes open for spiritual danger; stand true to the Lord; act like men; be strong; and whatever you do, do it with kindness and love.
1 Corinthians 16:13-14
The Living Bible
God is the silent partner in all great enterprises.
Abraham Lincoln
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In an experience which often transcended all their powers of expression, the mystics realized God as an abiding Fact, a living Presence and Love, and by this their whole existence was transformed. And this happened to them, not because He loved and attended to them more than He does to us, but because they loved and attended to Him more than we do.
Evelyn Underhill
Thy word is a lamp to my feet, And a light to my path.
Psalm 119:105
The New American Standard Bible
He preaches well who lives well. That’s all the divinity I know.
Miguel de Cervantes
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It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what keeps things running right.
Anne Lamott
Make the most of your chances to tell others the Good News. Be wise in all your contacts with them. Let your conversation be gracious as well as sensible, for then you will have the right answer for everyone.
Colossians 4:5-6
The Living Bible
Bishop Festo Kivengere told the story of how he was going off to preach after a row with his wife. The Holy Spirit said to him, “Go back and pray with your wife!” He argued, “I’m due to preach in twenty minutes. I’ll do it afterwards.” “OK,” said the Holy Spirit. “You go and preach; I’ll stay with your wife.”
Festo Kivengere
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How paltry must be the devotions of those who are always in a hurry.
William Law
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others.
Philippians 2:3-4
The New Revised Standard Version
They were wending homeward from the village kirk when Mrs. Mactavish said to Mrs. Macleod: “And what did you think of the young minister’s sermon this morning?” “Weel,” said Mrs. Macleod thoughtfully, “I find three faults with his sermon: frstly, he read it; secondly, he dinna read well; and thirdly, it wasn’t worth readin.”
Unknown
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