Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.
The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
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.
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
What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
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.
Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.
Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.
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.
Don't worry about what you do not understand... Worry about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not live by.
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!'
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.
When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.
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.
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.
We can’t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.
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.
Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.
The amount of God's love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.
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.
Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.
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