“If the praise of others elates me, and the criticism of others depresses me, then I am not truly resting in my Prince’s love.” –Amy Carmichael
“…determine not to base your contentment on your circumstances. Don’t attach your happiness to what others think of you. Remain rooted in the unchanging, unwavering, unfaltering love of your true Prince- and you will glow from the inside out.”
- Leslie Ludy
“I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize that He is able to carry out His will for me. It does not matter where He places me, or how. That is for Him to consider, not me, for in the easiest positions He will give me grace, and in the most difficult ones His grace is sufficient. “ – Hudson Taylor
“We have to battle through our moods into absolute devotion to the Lord Jesus. We must set aside preoccupation with our circumstances and experiences, and learn abandoned devotion to Him.” – Oswald Chambers
“Today I know that 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.” – Corrie ten Boom
“Fear paralyzes the multitudes from changing the world. It is fear that keeps our mouths shut when we know we need to speak. It is fear that keeps us sitting when we know we need to stand. And it is fear that keeps us from giving everything when we wonder if we will ever get it back. We fear what might happen, we fear what might not happen, we fear what people think , and we even fear what we think. We are locked with in a cage of trepidation, but our prince provides us with the key that finally frees us from the tyranny of social approval, the despotism of evil foreboding, and the dictatorship of insecurity- He provides us with Himself….The world may fear, but we always rest in the knowledge that even our death is a doorway into His very presence.” – Leslie Ludy
“By realizing the reality of our Prince within us, we are never bothered again by the fact that we do not understand ourselves, or that other people do not understand us. The only One who truly understands me is the One who made me and redeems me…. It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of every kind of self-consideration and learn to care about only one thing- the relationship between our Prince and ourselves.” – Oswald Chambers
“To do or not to do; to have or not to have; I leave to Thee; thy only will be done in me; all my requests are lost in one, “Father , thy will be done!”- Charles Wesley
“A Whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to ‘accept’ Christ without forsaking the world.” A.W. Tozer
“The saddest thing one meets is the nominal Christian.”- Amy Carmichael
“It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desire which He creates”- Amy Carmichael
“It is easy to measure our standards for living against those around us (even Christian leaders we look up to). But instead, we must begin to measure our standards only against the righteousness of Jesus Christ.” – Leslie Ludy
"If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means that they are being purified. There is nothing noble the human mind has ever hoped for or dreamed of that will not be fulfilled. One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God. 'Because thou hast kept the work of my patience.' Remain spiritually tenacious." ~Oswald Chambers
Horace Bushnell
"If you go to Him to be guided, He will guide you; but He will not comfort your distrust or half-trust of Him by showing you the chart of all His purposes concerning you. He will show you only into a way where, if you go cheerfully and trustfully forward, He will show you on still farther."
Charles H. Spurgeon
"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
Jeremy Taylor
"Lord, do Thou turn me all into love, and all my love into obedience, and let my obedience be without interruption."
Elisabeth Elliot
"...happiness...depends on happenings. Joy depends on Christ living in us, and being allowed to make us joyful."
Charles Spurgeon
"Humility is to make a right assessment of oneself"
Heather Payne
"...most things that are easy are not
excellent, but when we have to work hard at something, I mean abandon
ourselves and really work hard, then it produces something excellent. And
God's standard is excellence. My words of wisdom to you and to me are to
strive for the excellent thing, not the easy thing. God's way not ours."
Elisabeth Elliot
"Impatience hardens."
"I worried much about whether I would fail to follow the Shepherd, would be deaf to His call. I thought it such a bewildering matter. It is not a worry anymore. Experience has taught me that the Shepherd is far more willing to show His sheep the path than the sheep are to follow. He is endlessly merciful, patient, tender, and loving. If we, His stupid and wayward sheep, really want to be led, we will without fail be led. Of that. I am sure."
Jim Elliot
" Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God."
Amy Carmichael
"'Hereby percieve we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.' How often I think of that 'ought'. No sugary sentiment there. Just the stern, glorious trumpet call, OUGHT. But can words ell the joy buried deep within? Mine cannot. It laughs at words."
" A cup brimful with sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred."
"The vows of God are on me. I may not stay to play with shadows or pluck earthly flowers, till I my work have done and rendered up account."
Darlene Deibler Rose
"It is imperative that we know the voice of the Shepherd and learn to follow Him when He speaks. We must be obedient, no matter what He says to us; it may even mean our life."
"...'He will never leave us nor forsake us.' No? What about now, Lord? This was one of the times when I thought God had left me, that He had forsaken me. I was to discover, however, that when I took my eyes off the circumstances that were overwhelming me, over which I had no control, and looked up, my Lord was there, standing on the parapet of heaven looking down. Deep in my heart He whispered, 'I'm here. Even when you don't see Me, I'm here. Never for a moment are you out of My sight."
Elisabeth Elliot
“I found peace in the knowledge that I was in the hands of God. Not in the confidence that I was not going to be killed. Not in any false sense of security that God would protect me… Simply in knowing that He held my destiny in His two hands and that what He did was right.”
“If a duty is clear, the dangers surrounding it are irrelevant.”
“Psychologists tell us to ‘do the thing we fear.’ Good advice, probably for conquering the smaller fears. It would hardly apply to the great fear, the fear of death. There is only one answer for this-to know Him who holds the keys of death and is Himself the Lord of Life.”
Woodrow Wilson
“The Bible is the Word of life- it is a picture of the human heart displayed for all ages and all sorts of conditions of men. I feel sorry for the men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.”
George Washington
“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”
Samuel F.B. Morse
“I like to study the Guide Book to the country where I am going.”
John Wesley
“The Bible must be the invention either of good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God.
1. It could not be the invention of good men or angels; for they neither would nor could make a book, and tell lies all the time they were writing it, saying, ‘Thus saith the Lord,’ when it was their own invention.
2. It could not be the invention of bad men or devils; for they would not make a book which commands all duty, forbids all sin, and condemns their souls to hell to all eternity.
3. Therefore, I draw this conclusion, that the Bible must be given by divine inspiration.”
John Wesley
Barbara Johnson
"What a blessing to have friends with whom to share our joys and our sorrows. When sorrow is shared, it is divided, and when joy is shared it is multiplied."
Luci Swindoll
"Time and distance need not separate friends."
Marc Kohler
"One of the greatest joys experienced by humans is witnessing a friend or loved one become a Christian. Greater still is being a tool in God's hand used to share His love and plan of eternal salvation with that person."
Nate Saint
"As we have a high old time this Christmas, may we who know Christ hear the cry of the damned as they hurtle headlong into the Christless night without ever a chance. May we be moved with compassion as our Lord was. May we shed tears of repentance for these we have failed to bring out of darkness. Beyond the smiling scenes of Bethlehem may we see the crushing agony of Golgotha. May God give us a new vision of His will concerning the lost and our responsibility."
Pete Fleming
"Where shall we look? Where shall we go? I believe that we have a right to go back to the Bible for our anchorage. Here we have a recognized foundation...let us build upon it."
Jim Elliot
" 'He makes His ministers a flame of fire.' Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread abestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be a flame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst though bear this, my soul- short life?....'Make me Thy Fuel, Flame of God.'"
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
G.D. Boardman
"The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold."
Ronald Reagan
" We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life, the unborn, without diminishing the value of all human life."
Andrew Jackson
(referring to the Bible) "That Book , sir, is the rock on which our republic rests."
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"Worry is a burden God never meant for us to bear."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." (referring to the effect of communism on Russia)
"All attempts to find a way out of the plight of today's world are fruitless unless we direct our consciousness, in repentance, to the Creator of all."
Benjamin Franklin
"I have lived a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that "except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it" (Psalm 127:1)"
Helen Keller
"God is love, God is our Father, we are His children; therefore the darkest clouds will break, and though right be worsted, wrong shall not triumph."
"...Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, 'There is joy in self-forgetfulness.'"
Corrie ten Boom
"Don't worry about what you do not understand... Worry about what you do understand [in the Bible] but do not live by."
Arthur Hoppe
"We ought to change the legend on our money from 'In God We Trust' to 'In Money We Trust.' Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God."
