The secret of a happy life is to delight in duty. When duty becomes delight, then burdens become blessings
Those times when you feel like quitting can be times of great opportunity, for God uses your troubles to help you grow.
Never underestimate the importance of simply being physically present in the place God wants you. You may not be asked to perform some dramatic ministry, but simply being there is a ministry.
Real contentment must come from within. You and I can not change or control the world around us, but we can change and control the world within us.
No matter how much you may change or how life may change, God never changes, and His promises never fail.
Some of your greatest blessings come with patience.
If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.
It is futile for us to try to serve God without the power of the Holy Spirit. Talent, training, and experience cannot take the place of the power of the Spirit.
People can't see your root system, but God can. Praying and meditating on the Word of God will cause your roots to go down deep into His love.
Meekness is power under control.
If the only way I can make myself look good is to criticize you, something is seriously wrong with me.
The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not
When it seems as if God is far away, remind yourself that He is near. Nearness is not a matter of geography. God is everywhere. Nearness is likeness. The more we become like the Lord, the nearer He is to us.
It is a remarkable thing that some of the most optimistic and enthusiastic people you will meet are those who have been through intense suffering.
Hypocrisy means deliberately pretending. None of us lives up to his ideals; none of us is all that he would like to be or all that he could be in Christ. But that is not hypocrisy. Falling short of our ideals is not hypocrisy. Pretending we have reached our ideals when we have not - that is hypocrisy.
He knows when we go into the storm, He watches over us in the storm, and He can bring us out of the storm when His purposes have been fulfilled.
Life's trials are not easy. But in God's will, each has a purpose. Often He uses them to enlarge you.
When we change the message of God, we change the God of the message.
God has ordained that His people live by promises and not by explanations.
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
Your heart grows by giving out, but your mind grows by taking in; and both are necessary to a happy and balanced life of service.
The Christian life is a pilgrimage from earth to heaven, and our task is to take as many as possible with us as we make this journey.
After all, a crisis doesn't make a person; it reveals what a person is made of.
I will be satisfied to the extent that I see everything I have as a gift from God. Here is the truth: Everything you have – your money, talent, friendships, marriage, children, material possessions, health, home, bike, car, even the country you live in – is a gift from God that He had chosen out of His generous nature to give you.
The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy. Our thoughts become shackled, our emotions are chained, the will is almost paralyzed. But when we show mercy, all of these bonds are broken, and we enter into a joyful liberty that frees us to share God's love with others.
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