The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.
Ask God to give you the strength to endure, and rest assured, He will take care of you.
Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.
As I make goals for this year... Jesus, let your thoughts become my thoughts and bend my will to Your will.
God gave me emotions so I could experience life, not destroy it
If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.
Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others.
Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.
It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.
If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard doctrinal positions. We end up merely finding ammunition for what we already believe. We become so spiritually proud, so convinced of our own positions, that the Spirit is hindered in helping us to grow in the things of God.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
I talk to God but the sky is empty.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom.
The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?
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