The world with all its goods cannot content the heart of man; for he was created not for them, but for God alone; hence God alone can make him happy and content.
Alphonsus Liguori
Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
Psalm 37:5
The King James Version
My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.
Alfred Tennyson
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Neither power nor wealth, neither education nor ability, neither gifts of creativity nor stores of human energy can insure against the reality that suffering will be our companion at some time during our journey. It is a presence as inseparable from the human condition as food and oxygen are from human life. It is part of our legacy.
Paula Ripple
Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun. For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
Ecclesiastes 7:11-12
The English Standard Version
A good man finds every place he treads upon holy ground; to him the world is God’s temple.
John Smith
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If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be. Life is supplied with a basic adequacy. The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions. Many Christians are Christians in their actions—they don’t lie, steal, commit adultery, or get drunk; but they react badly to what happens to them: they react in anger, bad temper, self-pity, jealousy, and envy. When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
E. Stanley Jones
O my son, give me your heart. May your eyes take delight in following my ways.
Proverbs 23:26
The New Living Translation
God has not promised skies always blue,
flower-strewn pathways all our lives through;
God has not promised sun without rain,
joy without sorrow, peace without pain.
But God has promised strength for the day,
rest for the labor, light for the way,
grace for the trials, help from above,
unfailing sympathy, undying love.
Annie Johnson Flint
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The whole effort—the object—of temptation is to induce us to substitute something else for God. To obscure God.
R. H. J. Steuart
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
John 13:34
The King James Version
He that hopes hereafter to look back with satisfaction upon past years, must learn to know the present value of single minutes.
Samuel Johnson
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God does not reserve such a lofty vocation, as that of contemplation, to certain souls only; on the contrary, He is willing that all should embrace it. But He finds few who permit such divine things in them. Most shrink from the labor instead of submitting, as they must, with endless patience.
John of the Cross
The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.”
Luke 17:5-6
The New International Version
A man’s most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
Thomas Brooks
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Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.
Lew Wallace
He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now. He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him. But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
1 John 2:9-11
The New King James Version
Wonder is the basis of Worship.
Thomas Carlyle
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
George Herbert
“This is what the Lord says—your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the Lord, the Maker of all things, who stretches out the heavens, who spreads out the earth by myself,”
Isaiah 44:24
The New International Version
The elements of prayer…
Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us.
Its use: to turn our will to His will.
Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.
Julian of Norwich
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Jesus did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or all the things He would have liked to do, but He did finish the work which God gave Him to do. The only alternative to frustration is to be sure that we are doing what God wants. Nothing substitutes for knowing that this day, this hour, in this place, we are doing the will of the Father. Then and only then can we think of all the other unfinished tasks with equanimity, and leave them with God.
Charles E. Hummel
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
John 15:17
The King James Version
That which is infinite is as much above what is great as it is above what is small. Thus God, being infinitely great, He is as much above kings as He is above beggars; He is as much above the highest angel as He is above the meanest worm.
Jonathan Edwards
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Frightful this is in a sense, but it is true, and every one who has merely some little knowledge of the human heart can verify it: there is nothing to which a man holds so desperately as to his sin.
Søren Kierkegaard
The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but man is tested by the praise he receives.
Proverbs 27:21
The New International Version
Just as a hand held before the eyes conceals the greatest mountain, so does petty earthly life conceal from view the vast lights and mysteries of which the world is full.
Nachman of Breslov
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When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead us to worship God, filling our inner being with a fullness we would never have thought possible. Awe prepares the way in us for the power of God to transform us and this transformation of our inner attitudes can only take place when awe leads us in turn to wonder, admiration, reverence, surrender, and obedience toward God.
James M. Houston
Claiming themselves to be wise without God, they became utter fools instead.
Romans 1:22
The Living Bible
A Christian should be a striking likeness of Jesus Christ. You have read lives of Christ, beautifully written; but the best life of Christ is His living biography, written out in the words and action of His people.
Charles H. Spurgeon
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