While a man rests on his own merits for acceptance with God, it is of little consequence whether he be a pagan idolator, or a proud, ignorant Pharisee. I know not which of the two is most distant from the kingdom of God.
James Milner
I call on the LORD in my distress, and he answers me.
Psalm 120:1
The New International Version
God has an exasperating habit of laying his hands on the wrong man.
Joseph Blinco
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Commit a sin twice and it will not seem to thee a crime.
The Talmud
A man is a fool to trust himself! But those who use God’s wisdom are safe.
Proverbs 28:26
The Living Bible
The average man’s idea of a good sermon is one that goes over his head—and hits one of his neighbors.
Unknown
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The most difficult thing the good Lord has to deal with in the man of today is his sense of self-sufficiency. He is too prone to think he can get along pretty well without God.
Western Christian Advocate
For you are my lamp, O LORD, and my God lightens my darkness.
2 Samuel 22:29
The English Standard Version
Feelings are everywhere—be gentle.
J. Masai
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pine
“Is not My word like a fire” says the LORD, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?”
Jeremiah 23:29
The New King James Version
An old Danish peasant on his death bed asked of his son only one promise: that he should sit alone for a half-hour each day in the best room in the house. The son did this and became a model for the whole district.
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Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Peter Marshall
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angles, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39
The New American Standard Bible
His visits with the inner man are frequent.
Thomas à Kempis
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That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Saviour, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.
Alexander Maclaren
Trust in the LORD forever, for in the LORD GOD you have an everlasting rock.
Isaiah 26:4
The New Revised Standard Version
We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.
Russell Banks
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The devil fears a soul in union with God as he fears God himself.
John of the Cross
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
Proverbs 4:18
The Revised Standard Version
The audience was waiting for the brilliant pianist to come out onto the stage. Then, to everyone’s embarrassment, a little boy wandered up onto the stage and started banging out one harsh note on the Steinway. Suddenly, the maestro appeared in the wings and made his way over to the boy. Standing behind him as he banged away tunelessly, he began to weave a melody around the note, taking it up into his larger tune and transforming it into something beautiful. After a few moments, the maestro gently led the boy away from the piano, and together they took a bow to the audience’s applause. The little boy wandered back to his seat—not embarrassed, not having been made to look foolish. In the same way, Jesus can take the harsh, discordant, out-of-tune moments of our lives—perhaps a time of sexual sin, or of cowardice or defeat in some other way—and can weave his own purposes around them. As we let him do this, he transforms our mistakes and failures, bringing out of them something he can use for his glory.
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In an experience which often transcended all their powers of expression, the mystics realized God as an abiding Fact, a living Presence and Love, and by this their whole existence was transformed. And this happened to them, not because He loved and attended to them more than He does to us, but because they loved and attended to Him more than we do.
Evelyn Underhill
Thy word is a lamp to my feet, And a light to my path.
Psalm 119:105
The New American Standard Bible
He preaches well who lives well. That’s all the divinity I know.
Miguel de Cervantes
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No shelter can be imaged at all comparable to the protection of Jehovah’s own shadow. The Almighty himself is where his shadow is, and hence those who dwell in his secret place are shielded by himself.
Charles Spurgeon
If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
John 14:15-17
The King James Version
Much like our lives, which start out as a blank canvas, we face trials and tribulations along the journey…Through these experiences, whether joyful or difficult, God adds color and texture along our paths to create a beautiful masterpiece.
Anne Neilson
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God does not help us by removing the tests, but by making the tests work for us.
Warren Wiersbe
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
2 Corinthians 13:14
The English Standard Version
A powerful story came out of World War II. It is about a little Jewish boy who was living in a small Polish village when Nazi troops rounded up him and all the other Jews in the vicinity and sentenced them to death. The boy joined his neighbours in digging a shallow ditch for their own graves. Then the soldiers lined them up against a wall and machine gunned them down. But none of the bullets hit the little boy. The blood of his parents splattered his naked body, and as he fell into the ditch he pretended to be dead. The grave was so shallow that the thin covering of dirt did not prevent him from breathing. Several hours later, when darkness fell, he clawed his way out of the grave. With blood and dirt caked to his little body, he made his way to the nearest house and begged for help. Recognizing him as one of the Jewish boys marked for death, he was turned away at house after house as people feared getting into trouble with the SS troops. Then something inside seemed to guide him to say something that was very strange for a Jewish boy to say. When the next family responded to his timid knocking in the still of the night, they heard him cry, “Don’t you recognize me? I am the Jesus you say you love.” After a poignant pause, the woman who stood in the doorway swept him into her arms and kissed him. From that day on, the members of that family cared for that boy as though he was one of their own.
Tony Campolo
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