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.
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.'
The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
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.
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!'
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!
Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.
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.
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.
Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
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.
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
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.
Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.
When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group
There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.
The safest place to be is in the center of God's will.
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.
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