The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.
If we read the Word and do not pray, we may become filled with knowledge, without the love that builds up. If we pray without reading the Word, we shall be ignorant of the mind and will of God, and become mystical and fanatical and blown about by every wind of doctrine.
D.L. Moody
"It is always a sign of repentance in Christians who have fallen when they leave the company where they were led astray." - Charles Spurgeon
"True love is an act of the will—a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves." Billy Graham
The Bible is the best lantern for a dark and cloudy time. Let us beware of traveling without its light. - JC Ryle
What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.
John Wesley
"As long as we are preoccupied with ourselves, we will never qualify to be servants of others." ~ Elisabeth Elliot
"If the very worst should happen, our God is still the greatest and best." —
Charles Spurgeon
“The word endureth has been properly supplied by the translators, but yet it somewhat restricts the sense, which will be better seen if we read it, ‘for his mercy forever.’ That mercy had no beginning, and shall never know an end.” (Spurgeon)
"It is better to make a thousand failures than to be too cowardly to ever undertake anything." – Clovis G. Chappell
“Lord, deliver me from the urge to open my mouth when I should shut it. Give me the wisdom to keep silence where silence is wise. Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that very few things need to be said by me.” Elisabeth Elliot
I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ can and will lead us beyond an exclusive concern for the wellbeing of other human beings to the broader concern for the birds in our backyards, the fish in our rivers, and every living creature on the face of the earth.
John Wesley
“The most outstanding record…on the scroll of time is the date of the birth of Jesus…No issued document is legal, no signed check is valid, and no business receipt is of value unless it bears the statistical reference to this great historic event.” —Homer G. Rhea, Jr.
It is not the greatness of, but the continuance in, sins that indeed damneth the sinner. -
John Bunyan
If every family in every church got serious about making disciples in the home, it would change our nation and our world. —Winfield Bevins
The manner in which we received the Lord is the very same manner in which we are to walk in Him. "As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him." We received Him by grace, we must walk by grace. We were born again by the Spirit, we must walk by the Spirit. Furthermore, when we first received Christ, He was our only hope. Now, we are to walk with Him the same way.
R.A. Torrey shared what has become one of my favorite quotes, “People who pray for power but neglect the Bible abound in the church. But the power that belongs to God is stored up in the great reservoir of His own Word, the Bible. We cannot obtain or maintain God’s power in our own lives or in our work unless there is deep and frequent meditation on the Word of God.”
If you really want to grow in your Christian life, you need to keep coming back to the Word of God.
It’s not enough to read the Bible once and then move on. Each of us need daily manna from heaven that God gives as we come back to His Word each day.
It’s one thing to get into the Word of God, but it’s another thing to let the Word of God get into you.
Keep coming back to the Word of God. It’s where your daily power comes from. It’s a living and active part of the life of the growing believer so don’t try to live without it as a regular source of strength!
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