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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To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Martin Luther

He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Galatians 3:5
The King James Version

Jesus is all we have; He is all we need and all we want.  We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!

Vance Havner

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Jesus is not one of many ways to approach God, nor is He the best of several ways; He is the only way.

A. W. Tozer

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him.

Ephesians 1:7-10
The New King James Version

Peace is seeing a sunrise or a sunset and knowing whom to thank.

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He was made what we are, that He might make us what He is Himself.

Irenaeus

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

John 14:26
The Revised Standard Version

A young Scottish preacher lived seven miles up the river from his church.  There came a Sunday when the snowdrifts made the road impassable, and he skated down the river to his church service.  Hauled before the bar of his presbytery for breaking the Sabbath, his defense was that skating was the only way he could get there.  “Young man,” said the moderator, “there is just one question.  Did ye, or did ye not, enjoy the skatin’?”

C. F. Wishart

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