Month: July 2014

I have never heard of a sin being committed without knowing full well that I had the seed of it within myself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Luke 19:10
The English Standard Version

The eyes of knowledge
see a million stars
burning in the midnight sky.
The eyes of faith
see a million miracles.
John Francis Gainey

For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
2 Samuel 22:29
The King James Version

The exits were entrances in disguise.
Unknown

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable?  Quite easily, I should think.  All nonsense questions are unanswerable.  How many hours are there in a mile?  Is yellow square or round?  Probably half the questions we ask- half our great theological and metaphysical problems- are like that.
C. S. Lewis

So Peter opened his mouth, and said” “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.”
Acts 10:34-35
The English Standard Version

It is the case of most sinners to think themselves freest from those sins to which they are most enslaved.
Richard Baxter

Then men will say, “Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth.”
Psalm 58:11
The New International Version

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
Henry Ward Beecher

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light.
Oswald Chambers

“For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’S; upon them he has set the world.”
1 Samuel 2:8
The New International Version

When we come to the last moment of this lifetime, and we look back across it, the only thing that’s going to matter is “what was the quality of our love?”
Richard Bach

Forgiveness is every person’s deepest need and the greatest quality of being like Jesus.
Franklin Graham

He who has a generous eye will be blessed, For he gives of his bread to the poor.
Proverbs 22:9
The New King James Version

Prayer is not the moment when God and humans are in relationship, for that is always.  Prayer is taking initiative to intentionally respond to God’s presence.
L. Robert Keck

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, And whose hope is the LORD.”
Jeremiah 17:7
The New King James Version

What I do, you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do.  The needs are great, and none of us, including me, ever do great things.  But we can all do small things, with great love and together we can do something wonderful.
Mother Teresa

To know the rose is to know God.
To know the faded rose will bloom again is to know eternity.
Lewis Nickerson

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
Luke 4:18-19
The New International Version

To enjoy the journey is to leap into people’s lives. To enjoy the journey is to give until the stretch is a sacrifice. The question always is: what is it in life that will pull you out of your seat to be brave, risk and serve?
Janie Jasin

Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
Romans 12:14
The King James Version

If you want trust, trust others.
If you want respect, respect others.
If you want help, help others.
If you want love and peace in your life, give them away.
If you want great friends, be one.
That’s how it works.
Dan Zadra 

The most fruitful and the most joy-filled Christians are the most pruned Christians.
Bruce Wilkinson

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Ecclesiastes 9:7
The King James Version

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth is a supremely successful day.
Vernon Howard