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.
There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.
The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.
When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group
Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.
Don't worry about what you do not understand... Worry about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not live by.
If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.
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
Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.
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.
The amount of God's love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.
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.
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
If it’s dark everywhere, you can become so discouraged. You might doubt whether light still exists. But even if you can’t see the Lord, He sees you and me. Jesus said, 'And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age' (Matt. 28:20). When it’s necessary, He suddenly says, 'I’m still here!'
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.
Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.
Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.
What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
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.'
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.
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
The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
We can’t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.
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.
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