How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.
- George Macdonald -
Prayer needs Trust
When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive. Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless or that He will bless, but that He does bless, here and now. Trust always operates in the present tense. Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses. Trust receives what prayer acquires. So, what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.
- E. M. Bounds -
John Piper on Fasting
Do you have a hunger for God? If we don’t feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because we have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because we have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Our soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. If we are full of what the world offers, then perhaps a fast might express, or even increase, our soul’s appetite for God. Between the dangers of self-denial and self-indulgence is the path of pleasant pain called fasting.
- John Piper -
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The Law of God
The law sends us to the gospel, that we may be justified, and the gospel sends us to the law again to enquire what is our duty, being justified.
- Samuel Bolton -
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Pride and Temper
Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
- Anonymous -
Commitment to the Cause
More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers…it was commitment that thinned the ranks.
- Chuck Swindoll -
The Danger of Not Believing In God
It is often supposed that when people stop believing in God, they believe in nothing. Alas, it is worse than that. When they stop believing in God, they believe in anything.
- G. K. Chesterton -
Signs of Good Parenting
While it may break the heart of a wise parent, they realize that it is not love to shelter a child from every adversity and all hardship. It is through occasional adversity and the winds of life blowing against us that we develop the muscles to stand strong and steady, gaining our moral balance.
- Katherine Walden -
The Mark of Spiritual Maturity
One of the marks of spiritual maturity is the quiet confidence that God is in control - without the need to understand why He does what He does.
- Anonymous -
