Month: October 2014

The safest road to hell is a gradual one.  This safe road has a gentle slope, without turns, without milestones, without signposts, without warnings.
C. S. Lewis

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
Proverbs 28:19
The King James Version

Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise.
Thomas a Kempis

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True love hurts.  It always has to hurt.  It must be painful to love someone, painful to leave them, you might have to die for them.  When people marry they have to give up everything to love each other.  The mother who gives birth to her child suffers much.  It is the same for us in the religious life.  To belong fully to God we have to give up everything .  Only then can we truly love.  The word “love” is so misunderstood and so misused.
Mother Teresa

How can a young man keep his way pure?  By guarding it according to your word.
Psalm 119:9
The English Standard Version

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You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it.  God will waste nothing.
Phillips Brooks

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
1 Corinthians 2:9
The King James Version

When founding father John Jay was asked how he planned to spend his retirement years, he replied with a warm smile, “I have a long life to look back on and an eternity to look forward to.”
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When the Spirit has come to reside in someone, that person cannot stop praying; for the Spirit prays without ceasing in him.  No matter if he is asleep or awake, prayer is going in his his heart all the time.  He may be eating or drinking, he may be resting or working- the incense of prayer will ascend spontaneously from his heart.  The slightest stirring of his heart is like a voice which sings in silence and in secret to the Invisible.
Isaac the Syrian

The LORD has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy.
Psalm 126:3
The New International Version

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I feel a tension within me.  I have only a number of years left for the active ministry.  Why not use them well?  Yet one word spoken with a pure heart is worth thousands spoken in a state of spiritual turmoil.  Time given to inner renewal is never wasted.  God is never in a hurry.
Henri Nouwen

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
Psalm 18:6
The King James Version

I live and love in God’s peculiar light.
Michelangelo

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The morning is the gate of the day, and should be well guarded with prayer.  It is one end of the thread on which the day’s actions are strung, and should be well knotted with devotion.  If we felt more the majesty of life we should be more careful of its mornings.  He who rushes from his bed to his business and without worship is as foolish as though he had not put on his clothes, or washed his face, and as unwise as thought he dashed into battle without arms or armor.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 6:9
The King James Version

If Christ were coming again tomorrow, I would plant a tree today.
Martin Luther

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.  We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic.  It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality.  We crave things we neither need nor enjoy…We are made to feel ashamed to wear clothes or drive cars until they are worn out.  The mass media have convinced us that to be out of step with fashion is to be out of step with reality.  It is time we awaken to the fact that conformity to a sick society is to be sick.
Richard Foster

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:58
The Revised Standard Version

God expects more failure from us than we do from ourselves because God knows who we are.  We are not the righteous person who occasionally sins, we are the sinful person who occasionally- by God’s grace- gets it right.  When we start from this perspective we are released from the bondage of perfectionism and are able to forgive ourselves once and for all.  We are to take our cue from him.  We may be disappointed with ourselves but God is not.  We may feel like condemning ourselves, but God does not.
James Bryan Smith

He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.  Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
Luke 10:2
The New International Version

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke

Through the centuries men have displayed many different symbols to show that they are Christians. They have worn crosses in the lapels of their coats, hung chains about their necks, even had special haircuts. Of course, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with any of this, if one feels it is his calling. But there is a much better sign, a universal mark that is to last through all the ages of the church until Jesus comes back…Love- and the unity it attests to- is the mark Christ gave Christians to wear before the world. Only with this mark may the world know that Christians are indeed Christians and that Jesus was sent by the Father.
Francis Schaeffer

Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and depart from evil.  It will be health to your flesh, And strength to your bones.
Proverbs 3:7-8
The New King James Version

We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with Him right now- to be happy with Him at this very moment.  But being happy with Him now means loving like He loves, helping like He helps, giving as He gives, serving as He serves, rescuing as He rescues, being with Him twenty-four hours a day- touching Him in His distressing disguise.
Mother Teresa

The LORD examines both the righteous and the wicked.  He hates those who love violence.
Psalm 11:5
The New Living Translation

As the minister stepped up to the pulpit he discovered to his chagrin that he had forgotten his sermon notes.  As it was too late to send someone for them, he turned to the congregation and said, by way of apology, that this morning he should have to depend upon the Lord for what he might say, but that for the evening service, he would be better prepared.
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