Every choice we make lays a brick next to others, forming either a pathway or a wall, depending on our faithfulness to what God has asked of us.
Steve Carter
This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 118:24
The New International Version
God can’t bless who you pretend to be. He can only bless who you really are.
Michael Todd
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The dominion of any sinful habit will fearfully estrange us from His presence. A single consenting act of inward disobedience in thought or will is enough to let fall a cloud between Him and us, and to leave our hearts cheerless and dark.
Henry E. Manning
O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for thee. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.
Isaiah 33:2
The Revised Standard Version
The life of the church is not without a resurrection, nay, it is not without many resurrections.
John Calvin
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The circumstances of her life she could not alter, but she took them to the Lord, and handed them over into His management; and then she believed that He took it, and she left all the responsibility and the worry and anxiety with Him. As often as the anxieties returned she took them back; and the result was that, although the circumstances remained unchanged, her soul was kept in perfect peace in the midst of them. And the secret she found so effectual in her outward affairs, she found to be still more effectual in her inward ones, which were in truth even more utterly unmanageable. She abandoned her whole self to the Lord, with all that she was and all that she had. Believing that He took that which she had committed to Him, she ceased to fret and worry, and her life became all sunshine in the gladness of belonging to Him.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Let me hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly. Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.
Psalm 85:8-9
The English Standard Version
My worth to God in public is what I am in private.
Oswald Chambers
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To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire. He who desires not from the bottom of his heart, offers a deceitful prayer.
François Fénelon
I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
Proverbs 4:11
The English Standard Version
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. If you are angry with a man, or hate him, it is not hard to go to him and stab him with words; but so to love a man that you cannot bear to see the stain of sin upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. But few have such friends. Our enemies usually teach us what we are at the point of the sword.
Henry Ward Beecher
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How God rejoices over a soul, which, surrounded on all sides by suffering and misery, does that upon earth which the angels do in heaven—namely, loves, adores, and praises God!
Gerhardt Tersteegen
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
Ephesians 4:31-32
The New King James Version
Disregard the study of God and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life, blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you.
J. I. Packer
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Neither go back in fear and misgiving to the past, nor in anxiety and forecasting to the future. Instead, lie quiet under His hand, having no will but His.
Henry E. Manning
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Luke 12:15
The King James Version
The light of faith confers upon us undreamed-of enhancement of our vision, an extension of our understanding, an enrichment of our natural powers beyond the powers of words to convey.
Rosalind Murray
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Ah, if you knew what peace there is in accepted sorrow!
Jeanne Guyon
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.”
Isaiah 57:15
The English Standard Version
To come to God there is a straight line for every man everywhere.
John Donne
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When therefore the smallest instinct or desire of thy heart calleth thee towards God and a newness of life, give it time and allow it to speak. Take care thou refuse not Him that speaketh. Be retired, silent, passive, and humbly attentive to this new risen light within thee.
William Law
He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?”
Mark 4:40
The New International Version
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless we preach as we walk.
Francis of Assisi
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That piety which sanctifies us, and which is a true devotion to God, consists in doing all His will precisely at the time, in the situation, and under the circumstances, in which He has placed us. Perfect devotedness requires not only that we do the will of God, but that we do it with love. God would have us serve Him with delight; it is our hearts that He asks of us.
François Fénelon
Even if we believe that it makes no difference to the Lord whether we do these things, still we cannot just go ahead and do them to please ourselves; for we must bear the “burden” of being considerate of the doubts and fears of others—of those who feel these things are wrong. Let’s please the other fellow, not ourselves, and do what is for his good and thus build him up in the Lord. Christ didn’t please himself. As the Psalmist said, “He came for the very purpose of suffering under the insults of those who were against the Lord.” These things that were written in the Scriptures so long ago are to teach us patience and to encourage us so that we will look forward expectantly to the time when God will conquer sin and death.
Romans 15:1-4
The Living Bible
Prayer is the soul getting into contact with the God in whom it believes.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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I must practice unlimited forgiveness because, if I did not, I should be wanting in veracity to myself, for it would be acting as if I myself were not guilty in the same way as the other has been guilty towards me.
Albert Schweitzer
I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.
Psalm 9:1-2
The New International Version
God is stripping me of everything to give me Everything.
E. Stanley Jones
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