Grief can be your servant, helping you to feel more compassion for others who hurt.
Robert Harold Schuller
“Offer to God thanksgiving, And pay your vows to the Most High. Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.”
Psalm 50:14-15
The New King James Version
Silence is the fence around wisdom.
Akiva ben Joseph
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Sin is not exhausted in describing individual acts which aren’t very nice. “Sin” is fundamentally a description of our entire situation, one of separation from God, alienation from him, arising out of our rebellion, our refusal to do his will, our insistence upon following our own wills.
John Stott
And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
2 John 1:6
The New International Version
Lord, the Scripture says: “There is a time for silence and a time for speech.” Saviour, teach me the silence of humility, the silence of wisdom, the silence of love, the silence of perfection, the silence that speaks without words, the silence of faith. Lord, teach me to silence my own heart that I may listen to the gentle movement of the Holy Spirit within me and sense the depths which are of God.
Frankfurt prayer (Sixteenth century)
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I learned the interior of life was as rewarding as the exterior life, and that my richest moments occurred when I was absolutely still.
Richard Bode
“In all this I have given you an example that by such work we must support the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, for he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Acts 20:35
The New Revised Standard Version
God knows no distance.
Charleszetta Waddles
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God’s silence is in no way indicative of His activity or involvement in our lives. He may be silent, but He is not still.
Charles Swindoll
Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Psalm 127:1-2
The King James Version
Benjamin West tells how he actually became a successful and important painter. When he was young, his mother went out and left him in charge of his sister Sally. In the meantime, little Benjamin discovered bottles of colored ink and began to do Sally’s portrait. What a mess soon developed. Finally, when Ben’s mother came home and saw the tragic mess, she said nothing. She merely picked up the paper with the portrait and said, “Why it’s Sally!” and she kissed Ben. Ever since that day, West has said, “My mother’s kiss made me a painter.”
Raymond T. Moreland
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He who hath heard the Word of God can bear His silences.
Ignatius of Loyola
But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go forth leaping like calves from the stall.
Malachi 4:2
The Revised Standard Version
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
Charles Caleb Colton
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There is another kind of silence to be cultivated, besides that of the tongue as regards others. I mean silence as regards one’s self—restraining the imagination, not permitting it to dwell overmuch on what we have heard or said, not indulging in daydreaming, whether of the past or future. Be sure that you have made no small progress in the spiritual life, when you can control your imagination, so as to fix it on the duty and occupation actually existing, to the exclusion of the crowd of thoughts which are perpetually sweeping across the mind. No doubt, you cannot prevent those thoughts from arising, but you can prevent yourself from dwelling on them; you can put them aside, you can check the self-complacency, or irritation, or earthly belongings which feed them, and by the practice of such control of your thoughts you will attain that spirit of inward silence which draws the soul into a close fellowship with God.
Jean N. Grou
“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Matthew 26:41
The New International Version
The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory.
Edwin Conklin
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