Attempt great things for God; expect great things from God.
William Cary
This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
1 John 3:11
The New International Version
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy, like the wideness of the sea.
Frederick W. Faber
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Every day let us renew the consecration to God’s service. Every day let us, in His strength, pledge ourselves afresh to do His will, even in the veriest trifle, and to turn aside from anything that may displease Him… He does not bid us bear the burdens of tomorrow, next week, or next year. Every day we are to come to Him in simple obedience and faith, asking help to keep us and aid us through that day’s work. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, through years of long tomorrows, it will be but the same thing to do; leaving the future always in God’s hands, sure that He can care for it better than we. Blessed trust! That can thus confidingly say, “This hour is mine with its present duty; the next is God’s, and when it comes, His presence will come with it.”
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For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fulness of God.
Ephesians 3:14-19
The Revised Standard Version
Satan, like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
Thomas Adams
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We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear. Let us take breath, and go on afresh.
Francis de Sales
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honour. Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers.
Romans 12:9-13
The New Revised Standard Version
Man proposes, but God disposes.
Thomas à Kempis
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The will of God is never defeated, though much is done that is contrary to His will…Even what is done in opposition to His will does not defeat His will.
Augustine
If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their fellow believers.
1 John 4:20-21
The New Living Translation
And help us, this and every day,
To live more nearly as we pray.
John Keble
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It is faith’s work to claim and challenge loving kindness out of all the roughest strokes of God.
Samuel Rutherford
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Isaiah 40:12
The King James Version
God loved us enough to save us from sin’s past penalty.
God loves us enough to save us from sin’s present power.
God loves us enough to save us from sin’s future presence.
Josh Weidmann
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We are never without help. We have no right to say of any good work, “it is too hard for me to do,” or of any sorrow, “it is too hard for me to bear;” or of any sinful habit, “it is too hard for me to overcome.”
Elizabeth Charles
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7
The New Revised Standard Version
Wiser it were to welcome and make ours
What’er of good, though small, the Present brings,—
Kind greetings, sunshine, songs of birds, and flowers,
With a child’s pure delight in little things.
R. C. Trench
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The fact is there is nothing that we are doing that God could not raise up a stone in the field to do for him. The realization of this puts us in our true place. Though, lest we get too knocked down by such a realization of our insignificance, let me hasten to add that there is one thing that we alone can give God…and that is our personal love. No one else can give God our personal love. This is our great significance.
M. Basil Pennington
Now I say that each believer should confess his sins to God when he is aware of them, while there is time to be forgiven. Judgment will not touch him if he does.
Psalm 32:6
The Living Bible
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy—whether he knows it or not.
O. A. Battista
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Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to His will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety. Desire only the will of God; seek Him alone, and you will find peace.
François Fénelon
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
James 2:8
The English Standard Version
Worry is the warning light that God has been shoved to the sideline.
Rick Warren
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