To heal our souls God uses all kinds of means.

Augustine

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Romans 8:18
The New King James Version

I do not know when I have had happier times in my soul, than when I have been sitting at work, with nothing before me but a candle and a white cloth, and sharing no sound but that of my own breath, with God in my soul and heaven in my eye…I rejoice in being exactly what I am,—a creature capable of loving God, and who, as long as God lives, must be happy.  I get up and look for a while out of the window, and gaze at the moon and stars, the work of an Almighty hand.  I think of the grandeur of the universe, and then sit down, and think myself one of the happiest beings in it.

A poor Methodist woman, 18th century

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Let him who wants to counsel others faithfully, first have some experience himself, first carry the cross himself, and lead the way by his example.

Martin Luther

And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Luke 6:31
The English Standard Version

It is easier to gaze into the sun,
than into the face of the mystery of God.
Such is its beauty and its radiance.

Hildegard of Bingen

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Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.

John Bunyan

My child, listen and be wise: Keep your heart on the right course.  Do not carouse with drunkards or feast with gluttons, for they are on their way to poverty, and too much sleep clothes them in rags.

Proverbs 23:19-21
The New Living Translation

God’s center is everywhere.  His circumference is nowhere.

Thomas Watson

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Fatih, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely, does not even ask Him for the lifting of the darkness.

Phillips Brooks

Who is wise?  Let them realize these things.  Who is discerning?  Let them understand.  The ways of the Lord are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.

Hosea 14:9
The New International Version

Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but, looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature—loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.  Such friends seem inspired by the divine gift of prophecy—like the mother of St. Augustine, who, in the midst of the wayward, reckless youth of her son, beheld him in a vision standing clothed in white, a ministering priest at the right hand of God, as he has stood for long ages since.

H. B. Stowe

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Reverential reading includes attention, exertion of mind, and earnestness.  Not memory but conscience; not intellect but the heart…can enable us to use Scripture aright.

Adolph Saphir

John the Baptist, who was now in prison, heard about all the miracles the Messiah was doing, so he sent his disciples to ask Jesus, “Are you really the one we are waiting for, or shall we keep on looking?”  Jesus told them, “Go back to John and tell him about the miracles you’ve seen me do—the blind people I’ve healed, and the lame people now walking without help, and the cured lepers, and the deaf who hear, and the dead raised to life; and tell him about my preaching the Good News to the poor.  Then give him this message, ‘Blessed are those who don’t doubt me.’”

Matthew 11:2-6
The Living Bible

If you dare to believe that you are beloved before you are born, you may suddenly realize that your life is very, very special.  You become conscious that you were sent here just for a short time, for twenty, forty, or eighty years, to discover and believe.

Henri Nouwen

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Love Him and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Thomas à Kempis

But the meek shall inherit the earth, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Psalm 37:11
The New King James Version

Have your tools ready and God will supply the work.

Church sign

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Christians are Christlike; none deserves the name of Christian who is not so in his prevailing character.

Jonathan Edwards

Therefore David blessed the Lord in the presence of all the assembly; and David said: “Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.  Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty; for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.  Both riches and honor come from thee, and thou rulest over all.  In thy hand are power and might; and in thy hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.  And now we thank thee, our God, and praise thy glorious name.”

1 Chronicles 29:10-13
The Revised Standard Version

Faith makes things possible—it does not make them easy.

Unknown

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Surely none are so full of cares, or so poor in gifts, that to them also, waiting patiently and trustfully on God for His daily commands, He will not give direct ministry for Him, increasing according to their strength and their desire.  There is so much to be set right in the world, there are so many to be led and helped and comforted, that we must continually come in contact with such in our daily life.  Let us only take care, that, by the glance being turned inward, or strained onward, or lost in vacant reverie, we do not miss our turn of service, and pass by those to whom we might have been sent on an errand straight from God.

Elizabeth Charles

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all,

1 Timothy 2:5-6
The King James Version

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word “love.”

C. S. Lewis

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What, then, is the true way of loving one’s friends?  It is to love them in God, to love God in them; to love what He has made them; and to bear for love of Him what He has not made.

François Fénelon

For it is you who light my lamp; the Lord my God lightens my darkness.

Psalm 18:28
The English Standard Version

Which is the best commentary on the Bible?  The Bible itself.

Samuel Wesley

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A Christian man is a spiritual thing, and has God’s Word in his heart, and God’s Spirit to certify him of all things.

William Tyndale

Don’t let the excitement of youth cause you to forget your Creator.

Ecclesiastes 12:1
The New Living Translation

When God would make a pearl, He allows a grain of sand to hurt the oyster.  When God would make a saint, He buries a sorrow in the life.

George E. Failing

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