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  • When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

  • Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

  • Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

  • Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

  • Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

  • Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

  • Let God's promises shine on your problems.

  • Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

  • There are no 'ifs' in God's Kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside it.

  • There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.

  • The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

  • Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

  • Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.

  • Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

  • The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day

  • when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus

  • If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray ... It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray.

  • Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.

  • Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

  • Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown..

  • If God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following you.

  • A well-known psychologist once said, 'When a child reaches his third birthday, his parents will have given him half of all that they will ever be able to give him in the way of education.

  • This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see."

  • If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.

  • If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.

  • When we are on the beach we only see a small part of the ocean. However, we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. We only see a small part of God's great love, a few jewels of His great riches, but we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. The best is yet to come, when we see Jesus face-to-face.

  • When people come up and give me a compliment... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.'

  • Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.

  • You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you...

  • Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do."

  • Who can add to Christmas? The perfect motive is that God so loved the world. The perfect gift is that He gave His only Son. The only requirement is to believe in Him. The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life.

  • Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

  • When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.

  • Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

  • In God's faithfulness lies eternal security.

  • There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it!

  • God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.

  • God has plans, not problems for our lives.

  • We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the "whole armour of God," that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground.

  • He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely...

  • Don't worry about what you do not understand... Worry about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not live by.

  • You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

  • In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God

  • No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.

  • Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

  • This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

  • Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

  • If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes

  • Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

  • My little hobby. Book Collecting. And yet, old friends, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive. -Bulldog

  • Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

  • In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

  • Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

  • Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

  • To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.

  • And so I discovered that it is not on our own forgiveness any more than on our own goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When he tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

  • God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things....In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us.

  • God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART

  • Only Heaven will reveal the top part of God's tapestry

  • Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.

  • What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

  • Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

  • I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!

  • If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.

  • Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

  • A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

  • Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.

  • ... I have never met anybody who was sorry that they asked Jesus into their heart.

  • As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

  • In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.

  • Love is the strongest force in the world.

  • Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

  • Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

  • The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

  • Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.

  • You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.

  • If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.

  • To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.

  • Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do I give you your ticket?" I sniffed a few times, considering this. "Why, just before we get on the train." "Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things, too. Don't run out ahead of Him, Corrie. When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need-just in time.

  • God, make me willing to be made willing.

  • There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.

  • Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.

  • Worries carry responsibilitie s that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes.

  • Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.

  • The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.

  • If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.

  • When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.

  • The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.

  • Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.

  • Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.

  • Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you. And I was satisfied. More than satisfied--wonderfully at peace. There were answers to mmy hard questions--for now, I was content to leave them in my father's keeping.

  • Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.

  • The safest place to be is in the center of God's will.

  • Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.

  • If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

  • God does not have problems. Only plans,

  • We must mirror God's love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrrors of God's love, so we may show Jesus by our lives

  • Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself.

  • God raises the level of the impossible.

  • What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.

  • The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.

  • Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.

  • .....joy runs deeper than despair.

  • If all things are possible with God, then all things are possible to him who believes in Him.

  • I have experienced His presence in the deepest hell that man can create. I have really tested the promises of the Bible, and believe me, you can count on them.

  • Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.

  • You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.

  • God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing."

  • Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.

  • If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.

  • I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.

  • When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.

  • No matter how deep our darkness, he is deeper still.

  • When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

  • Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

  • I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.

  • Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.

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