Quote of the Day
“Do this in remembrance of me.”
-Jesus
“Shame is a soul eating emotion.”
― Carl Gustav Jung
To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.
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"We always struggle so hard to hold on, but God says, "Trust me and let go."
CS LEWIS
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The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us.
C S LEWIS
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“From start to finish, he is the One who does it all.”
Watchman Nee
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God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
CS LEWIS
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Proverbs 4:23 – Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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Life is full of awe and grace and truth, mystery and wonder. I live in that atmosphere.
---Dion DiMucci (singer)
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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. Martin Luther
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The truth is, we repeat what we don't repair.
In other words, we act out what we don’t work out.
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Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every affliction.
- Matthew 9:35
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How sweet the name of Jesus sounds, in a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, and drives away his fear.
- John Newton
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“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.”
― Brennan Manning
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“I’m just getting older and better.”
—Neal Schon, guitarist
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“You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.”
—George Burns
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Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father.
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“Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar
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“We do not pray so that we can get God's attention. We pray so that God will get our attention.”
― David G. Benner
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An honest heart loves the Truth.
- A. W. Pink
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An honest heart is open to the Word.
- A. W. Pink
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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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'God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.'
-Brennan Manning
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Today, let's set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we're not. Let's cut the threads of guilt with grace.
Lysa TerKeurst
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God says I am a winner in His book! He says I am His favorite! He says that I am worth it!
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I'm always 100% clean and pure before God because Jesus washed all my sins away long ago at the cross.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
~ Moliere
Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
Dwight Lyman Moody
If grace is an ocean, we're all sinking.
John Mark Mcmillan
"People don't abandon faith because they have doubts. People abandon faith because they think they're not allowed to have doubts."
“One bold message in the Book of Job is that you can say anything to God. Throw at him your grief, your anger, your doubt, your bitterness, your betrayal, your disappointment—he can absorb them all. As often as not, spiritual giants of the Bible are shown contending with God.”
– Philip Yancey
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Can you imagine God the Father frowning at Jesus?
Of course not.
Then neither is he frowning at you.
“Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.” – Brennan Manning
The future is as bright as the promises of God.
- William Carey
“You have made us for yourself, O God, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in You.”
Help us Lord to connect with You in such a significant way that we begin to let go of the ways we and our society say we should think, operate, and live.
-A prayer
The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.
-Martyn Lloyd-Jones
As fearful creatures, we much prefer a remote-control God of our own fabrication.
But God told Samuel,
“Looks aren’t everything. Don’t be impressed with his looks and stature. I’ve already eliminated him. God judges persons differently than humans do. Men and women look at the face; God looks into the heart.”
-1 Samuel 16:7
“The ministry of the law, which rightly condemned me, brought out my failures, but the ministry of the Spirit brings out His success.”
~ Ralph Harris
“Keep thy heart with all diligence;
for out of it are the issues of life.”
—Proverbs 4:23
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Paul's all-time favorite quote...
“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me – watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.” ~ Jesus Christ, Matthew 11:28-30, MSG
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“While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.”
-- David Platt
A true and enduring identity is a complex gift of Christ’s grace. He gives a new identity in an act of mercy. Then His Spirit makes it a living reality over a lifetime. When you see Him face to face, you will know Him as he truly is, and you will fully know who you are (1 Cor. 13:12).
-David Powlison
There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have the energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.
“I can’t afford to live in reaction to darkness. If I do, darkness has had a role in setting the agenda for my life. The devil is not worthy of such influence, even in the negative. Jesus lived in response to the Father. I must learn to do the same.”
-Bill Johnson
"The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression
of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal."
“Happy is the one who is not offended with me.”
-Jesus
“Grace is not a theology. It is not a subject matter. It is not a doctrine. It is a person, and his name is Jesus.
That’s the reason the Lord wants you to receive the abundance of grace, for to have the abundance of grace is to have the abundance of Jesus.”
~ Joseph Prince
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
