Solitude is the furnace of transformation.

Henri J. Nouwen

O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.

Nehemiah 1:11
The King James Version

We have all a few moments in life of hard, glorious running; but we have days and years of walking—the uneventful discharge of small duties.

Alexander Maclaren

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In life troubles will come which seem as if they never will pass away.  The night and the storm look as though they will last forever; but calm and the morning cannot be stayed; the storm in its very nature is transient.  The effort of nature, as that of the human heart, is to return to its repose, for God is peace.

George MacDonald

But now, O Lord, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand.

Isaiah 64:8
The New King James Version

Today I’m going to give two examinations. One in trigonometry and the other in honesty.  I hope you will pass them both.  If you must fail one, fail trigonometry.  There are many good people in the world who can’t pass trig, but there are no good people in the world who cannot pass a test of honesty.

What Dr. Madison Sarratt used to tell his class at Vanderbilt University each year.

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You cannot change the past, but the past can change you, either for better or for worse.  It all depends on how you look at it.  The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor that hinders you.  Leave your past mistakes with God, and look to the future by faith.

Warren Wiersbe

So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?  And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.  And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’  Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.”

Luke 15:3-7
The English Standard Version

The triumphant Christian does not fight for victory; he celebrates a victory already won.

Reginald Wallis

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The true goal of the Christian life is heaven: nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else.

Sherwood Eliot Wirt

so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

Hebrews 9:28
The New International Version

A few years ago I had managed to screw up my life so badly that I found myself without a home and without hope.  I’m ashamed to admit it, but even then I was so absorbed by my own self-pity that all I could think of was begging enough money to buy the cheapest drink I could find.  One day I was sitting in front of a store panhandling when a woman walked by with a small boy in tow.  She ignored my pitch and hurried away.  As I watched them go down the sidewalk the small boy broke free and came running back.  He stood in front of me, fumbling in his coat pocket; he pulled out a five-dollar bill that was almost certainly more money than he had ever held before, and handed it to me.  I was completely dumbstruck and just sat there staring at him with the money in my hand.  By then his mother had returned and with tears in her eyes gently led the boy away.  He turned back once to wave and they were gone.  I don’t know how long I sat there, but I have not had another drink since then.

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God is on the lookout for a man whose heart is perfect toward Him.  Will you be quiet enough to hear Him, brave enough to proclaim Him, and honest enough to obey Him?

Vance Havner

Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

Psalm 32:11
The King James Version

A doctor was once asked by a patient who had met with a serious accident, “Doctor, how long shall I have to lie here?”  “Only a day at a time,” was his answer.  This taught the patient a valuable lesson.  It was the same lesson God had recorded for His people for all ages.  If we are faithful a day at a time, the long years will take care of themselves.

Andrew Murray

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Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.

Oswald Chambers

My son, do not forget my law, But let your heart keep my commands; For length of days and long life And peace they will add to you.

Proverbs 3:1-2
The New King James Version

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.  A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

Frederick Buechner

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When by the Spirit of God, I understood these words, “The just shall live by faith,” I felt born again like a new man: I entered through the open doors into the very Paradise of God!

Martin Luther

“To him all the prophets bear witness that every one who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

Acts 10:43
The Revised Standard Version

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.

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To say that God justifies the ungodly means quite simply that God in His amazing love treats the sinner as if he were a good man.  Again, to put it very simply, God loves us, not for anything we are, but for what He is.

William Barclay

By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night.

Exodus 13:21
The New International Version

When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of space of which I am ignorant, and which knows me not, I am frightened, and am astonished being here rather than there, why now rather than then.

Blaise Pascal

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Without Christ life is as the twilight with dark night ahead; with Christ, it is the dawn of morning with the light and warmth of a full day ahead.

Philip Schaff

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

John 4:44
The Revised Standard Version

A friend who was working in the Dominican Republic with Habitat for Humanity had befriended a small boy named Etin.  He noticed that when Etin wore a shirt at all it was always the same dirty, tattered one.  A box of used clothes had been left at the camp, and my friend found two shirts in it that were in reasonably good shape and about Etin’s size, so he gave them to the grateful boy.  A few days later he saw another boy wearing one of the shirts.  When he next met up with Etin he explained that the shirts were meant for him.  Etin just looked at him and said, “But you gave me two!”

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Do you wish to rise?  Begin by descending.  You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds?  Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine

Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

1 Timothy 6:17-19
The King James Version

Because we cannot see Christ we cannot express our love to Him; but our neighbors we can always see, and we can do to them what, if we saw Him, we would like to do to Christ.

Mother Teresa

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