There is no temper of the soul more antithetic to New Testament religion than that which plays for safety.
A. Victor Murray
Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace. Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.
2 Timothy 2:22
The New Living Translation
God’s in His Heaven—All’s right with the world.
Robert Browning
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This is our highest reward that we should fully enjoy God, and that all who enjoy Him should enjoy one another in Him.
Augustine
There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18:24
The Revised Standard Version
The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest scrap of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, said they, the name of God may be on it.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Repentance, of all things in the world, makes the greatest change; it changes things in heaven and earth; for it changes the whole man from sin to grace.
Jeremy Taylor
“For you shall go out with joy, And be led out with peace; The mountains and the hills Shall break forth into singing before you, And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.”
Isaiah 55:12
The New King James Version
Where reason cannot wade there faith may swim.
Thomas Watson
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Grant O Lord, that we may live in Thy fear, die in Thy favor, rest in Thy peace, rise in Thy power, reign in Thy glory.
William Laud
A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.
Proverbs 19:11
The New International Version
A sin is two sins when it is defended.
Henry Smith
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Is anything vital ever accomplished without persistent effort? Farmers plow and sow, and keep on plowing and sowing. Miners dig, and keep on digging, deeper and deeper. Musicians practice and keep on practicing. Scholars study, and keep on studying. And so must we—if we would know how prayer purifies, fortifies, enriches the inner life, we will have to persist.
Charles R. Brown
LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting thou art God.
Psalm 90:1-2
The Revised Standard Version
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb
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It is hard to say what is worse, to injure others by words or to listen to one who does.
Bernard of Clairvaux
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
The New King James Version
“A still small voice” comes through the wild,
Like a father consoling his fretful child,
Which banishes bitterness, wrath, and fear,
Saying—Man is distant, but God is near!
Thomas Pringle
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In truth, sublime words make not a man holy and just: but a virtuous life maketh him dear to God.
Thomas à Kempis
But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth will tremble, And the nations will not be able to endure His indignation.
Jeremiah 10:10
The New King James Version
Bless all who worship Thee, from the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same. Of Thy goodness, give us; with Thy love, inspire us; by Thy spirit, guide us; by Thy power, protect us; in Thy mercy receive us now and always.
Ancient Collect
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If the devil catch a man idle, he’ll set him at work.
Thomas Fuller
As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” At once they left their nets and followed him.
Matthew 4:18-20
The New International Version
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
Gerald Hopkins
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O Father, light up the small duties of this day’s life: may they shine with the beauty of Thy countenance. May we believe that glory can dwell in the commonest task of every day.
Augustine
For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 Corinthians 5:1
The New American Standard Bible
Without Thy presence, wealth are bags of cares;
Wisdom, but folly; joy, disquiet, sadness:
Friendship is treason, and delights are snares;
Pleasure’s but pain, and mirth but pleasing madness.
Francis Quarles
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How distant you are from my sight while l am present to your sight! You are wholly present everywhere and I do not see you.
Anselm of Canterbury
Jesus replied, “What is impossible with men is possible with God.”
Luke 18:27
The New International Version
Life is a series of choices between the bad, the good, and the best. Everything depends on how we choose.
Vance Havner
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