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If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.
You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.
When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!" ~Jim Elliot
The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.
God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don't have now, we don't need now.
In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.
The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s.
A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.
Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.
I will offer to Him both my tears and my exultation. Nothing we offer to Him will be lost.
The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?
The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.
New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.
No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.
When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that he act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice.
We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.
If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.
Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.
In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.
No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.
We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen; you only know what you have to do now.
Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.
The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men
Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. 'Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.' Pr 3:7,8.
Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.
Think of this- we may live together with Him here and now, a daily walking with Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.
Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.
Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.
Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.
Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.
The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the Church. And the wife is there to bless and support and help him.
We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke.