Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in us, and who lives our life: and do the greatest things as though they were little and easy, because of His omnipotence.

- Blaise Pascal -

The fruit of the Spirit is not push, drive, climb, grasp and trample…Life is more than a climb to the top of the heap.

- Richard J. Foster -

Grant me, O Lord, to know what I ought to know,to love what I ought to love, to praise what delights Thee most, to value what is precious in Thy sight, to hate what is offensive to Thee. Do not suffer me to judge according to the sight of my eyes, nor to pass sentence according to the hearing of the ears of ignorant men; but to discern with a true judgment between things visible and spiritual, and above all, always to inquire what is the good pleasure of Thy will.

-Thomas a Kempis-

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We must devote, not only times and places to prayer, but be everywhere in the spirit of devotion; with hearts always set toward heaven, looking up to God in all our actions, and doing every thing as His servants; living in the world as in a holy temple of God, and always worshiping Him, though not with our lips, yet with the thankfulness of our hearts, the holiness of our actions and the pious and charitable use of all His gifts.

- William Law -

The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.

- William Booth -

Jesus says to you and me, ‘I want to share with you what I have achieved. I want to live in you. I want to share my risen life with you.’ How do we get it? We cannot buy it, cannot earn it, cannot work for it-no matter how hard we try. In fact the harder we try, the less likely we are of getting it, because the point is that it is a free gift! We can only accept it free! We can only receive it! We don’t get it by being good! We get it by grace, i.e. Jesus Christ living in us.

– Cyril Brooks -

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All things are God’s already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, 

that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service—just as a gardener 

brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, 

and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as 

much his lord’s before as now.

- John Selden -

(1584-1654)

Sin is it's own punishment

- Augustine –