It pays to serve the Lord; but don’t serve the Lord because it pays—for if you serve the Lord because it pays, it then may not pay.

Robert G. LeTourneau

But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and has made the Lord his hope and confidence.  He is like a tree planted along a riverbank, with its roots reaching deep into the water—a tree not bothered by the heat nor worried by long months of drought.  Its leaves stay green, and it goes right on producing all its luscious fruit.

Jeremiah 17:7-8
The Living Bible

This life therefore is not righteousness but growth in righteousness; not health but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise.  We are not what we shall be but we are growing toward it; the process is not yet finished but it is going on; this is not the end but it is the road.  All does not yet gleam in glory but all is being purified.

Martin Luther

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Whatever God gives you to do, do it as well as you can.  This is the best possible preparation for what he may want you to do next.

George MacDonald

Deliver me, O Lord, from my enemies; In You I take shelter.  Teach me to do Your will, For You are my God; Your Spirit is good.  Lead me in the land of uprightness.

Psalm 143:9-10
The New King James Version

In silence comes all loveliness,
The dawn is ever still,
No noise accompanies the dew
That glistens on the hill.

The sunrise slips up quietly,
The moon is never heard,
And love that animates the eye
Surpasses any word.

So prayer is best in solitude,
It seems so very odd
That long ago, I did not know
In silence I’d find God.

Jane Sayre

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The equipment for the inner life of prayer is simple.  It consists of a quiet place, a quiet hour and a quiet heart.

Unknown

I write to you, little children, Because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake.

1 John 2:12
The New King James Version

Someday – I’m going down the street
And sit and chat with one whose feet
Have had to pause and rest awhile
Before they travel that last mile;
Well – someday.

Someday – A cake or pie I’ll bake
And with a cheery smile I’ll take
It to a home where there is need;
Just folks, of quite a different creed;
Well – someday.

Someday – A letter I will send
To that distant, lonely friend;
I’lI tell her every little thing
That will joy and comfort bring;
Well – someday.

Someday – A quiet place Ill seek
Where I can hear my Father speak,
Where I can listen undisturbed
To His precious guiding Word;
Someday.

Someday – I’ll surely take the time
To tell some soul of love divine,
Of salvation full and free,
Meant for them as well as me;
Someday.

Someday – I said it long ago.
The days slip by, and well I know
“Someday” will never come until
Today bends to my Father’s will.
Why not today?

Roselyn C. Steere

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The enemy of our souls loves to taunt us with past failures, wrongs, disappointments, disasters, and calamities.  And if we let him continue doing this, our life becomes a long and dark tunnel, with very little light at the end.

Charles Swindoll

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Hebrews 13:4
The English Standard Version

My situation is urgent, and I cannot see how I will ever be delivered.  Yet this is not my concern, for He who made the promise will find a way to keep it.  My part is simply to obey His commands, not to direct His ways.  I am His servant, not His advisor.  I call upon Him and He will deliver me.

C. H. Spurgeon

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Christ spells peace.  When everything else in life fails Jesus draws near to support.  He makes real, through His living Presence, that those whose minds are stayed on God shall be kept in perfect peace.

Unknown

O God, thou knowest my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from thee.

Psalm 69:5
The Revised Standard Version

As a gardener is dependent upon God to grow a plant, so a parent is dependent upon God to grow a life.

C. B. Eavey

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Pride opens the door to every other sin, for once we are more concerned with our reputation than our character, there is no end to the things we will do just to make ourselves “look good” before others.

Warren Wiersbe

Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

Deuteronomy 11:26-28
The King James Version

God uses broken things.  It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength.  It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume…it is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.

Vance Havner

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Sometimes I think spiritual and physical strength is like manna: you get just what you need for the day, no more.

Suzanne Dale Ezell

As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

Isaiah 55:10-11
The New International Version

A poor blind woman in Paris put twenty-seven francs into a plate at a missionary meeting.  “You cannot afford so much,” said one.  “Yes sir, I can,” she answered.  On being pressed to explain, she said, “I am blind, and I said to my fellow straw-workers, ‘How much money do you spend in a year for oil for your lamps when it is too dark to work nights?’  They replied, ‘Twenty-seven francs.’  “So,” said the poor woman, “I found that I have so much in the year because I am blind and do not need a lamp, and I give it to shed light to the dark heathen lands.”

Christian Endeavor World

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Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.

Oswald Chambers

Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians 2:9-11
The Revised Standard Version

The Christian believes in a fabulous future.

Billy Graham

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This day’s bustle and hurly-burly would too often and too soon call us away from Jesus’ feet.  These distractions must be immediately dismissed, or we shall know only the “barrenness of busyness.”

A. W. Tozer

He said, “If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you.”

Exodus 15:26
The New International Version

Oh, how greatly has the man advanced who has learned not to be his own, not to be governed by his own reason, but to surrender his mind to God!

John Calvin

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All the power of God—the same power that hung the stars in place and put the planets in their courses and transformed Earth—now resides in you to energize and strengthen you to become the person God created you to be.

Anne Graham Lotz

Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”

Matthew 4:10
The English Standard Version

God carries your picture in his wallet.

Tony Campolo

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