God is more anxious to bestow His blessings on us than we are to receive them.
Augustine
I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.
Psalm 7:17
The New International Version
If you were not strangers here, the dogs of the world would not bark at you.
Samuel Rutherford
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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.”
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When your grief presses you to the very dust, worship there.
C. H. Spurgeon
Let us search out and examine our ways, And turn back to the LORD;
Lamentations 3:40
The New King James Version
Our five-year-old Jeanie took to rising at 5:30 each morning and puttering around just long enough to wake the rest of us before climbing back into bed. Her reason was always the same—she had to see if there was a surprise. Finally we told her firmly that she must stop and that there wouldn’t be any surprises until Christmas, which was months away. “I wasn’t talking about living-room surprises,” she said through her tears. “I was talking about like yesterday morning it was raining, and this morning real summer’s here, and tomorrow morning I’ll probably find some pink in the rosebuds.” Jeanie still gets up each morning at 5:30.
Mrs. Roy F. Carter
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The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God’s purposes and man’s praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.
E. M. Bounds
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Proverbs 26:12
The English Standard Version
We are anxious to win our friends to our political beliefs or new diet fads, but our religion we keep strictly to ourselves.
The Upper Room
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Religion is the fear and love of God; its demonstration is good works; and faith is the root of both, for without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear and love what we do not believe.
William Penn
Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Return to Me,” says the Lord of hosts, “and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts.’
Zechariah 1:3
The New King James Version
Keep your lamp burning, and let God place it where He will.
Unknown
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It is meditation that leads us in spirit into the hallowed solitudes wherein we find God alone—in peace, in calm, in silence, in recollection.
Jean Crasset
As a father has compassion for his children, so the LORD has compassion for those who fear him. For he knows how we were made; he remembers that we are dust.
Psalm 103:13-14
The New Revised Standard Version
Sometimes, we need a housecleaning of the heart.
Catherine Marshall
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When we wholeheartedly commit ourselves to God, there is nothing mediocre or run-of-the-mill about us. To live for Christ is to be passionate about our Lord and about our lives.
Jim Gallery
Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant; I formed you, you are my servant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me. I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Isaiah 44:21-22
The Revised Standard Version
Observing that his grandmother spent a great deal of time reading the Bible, a little boy remarked to his mother: “It must be that Grandma is cramming for her finals.”
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True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God’s love.
William Mackergo Taylor
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
Matthew 16:25
The New King James Version
There is little good in filling churches with people who go out exactly the same as they came in; the call of the Church is not to fill churches but to fill heaven.
Andrew of Perugia
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Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
Mother Teresa
Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; and I will keep it to the end. Give me understanding, that I may keep thy law and observe it with my whole heart.
Psalm 119:33-34
The Revised Standard Version
A new pastor in a certain village called on an unchurched family and gave them a cordial invitation to attend his services. For this he was taken to task by the pastor of another church, who said, “Those are our sinners; you let them alone.”
Unknown
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When you and I hurt deeply, what we really need is not an explanation from God but a revelation of God. We need to see how great God is; we need to recover our lost perspective on life. Things get out of proportion when we are suffering, and it takes a vision of something bigger than ourselves to get life’s dimensions adjusted again.
Warren Wiersbe
The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.
Proverbs 10:27
The English Standard Version
Let a man go to a psychiatrist and what does he become? An adjusted sinner. Let a man go to a physician and what does he become? A healthy sinner. Let a man achieve wealth and what does he become? A wealthy sinner. Let a man join a church, sign a card, and turn over a new leaf and what does he become? A religious sinner. But let him go in sincere repentance and faith to the foot of Calvary’s cross, and what does he become? A new creature in Jesus Christ, forgiven, reconciled, with meaning and purpose in his life and on the way to marvelous fulfillment in God’s will.
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