But God has set no traps for us. Quite the contrary. He has summoned us to the only true and full freedom.
What a cynic would call a coincidence, Amy called a clear answer, and more than an answer--a sign of the love of the Lord.
The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.
The gate is narrow but not the life. The gate opens out into largeness of life.
Matters of the heart still can never put us beyond His love and redemption.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. Jim Elliot, missionary to Auca indians in Ecuador
God has promised to supply our needs. What we don’t have now we don’t need now.
A man's thoughts dye his soul, attributed to Marcus Aurelius
When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unnecessary weight will have the most valuable cargo to present to the Lord.Nate
Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclu...
Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now.
The women of the Band were learning that if the Lord of Glory took a towel and knelt on the floor to wash the dusty feet of His disciples, then no work, even the relentless and often messy routine of...
The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appearance, the things you spend your money on, all speak loudly about what you believe. The beauty of t...
The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental breakdown, the great physician William Osler told the students of Yale . . .
Saral came one day with a idea for drawing the women to hear the Gospel. She would teach them to knit with some pink wool she had been given, 'and they will love me more and like to listen when I talk...
Lord, break the chains that hold me to myself; free me to be Your happy slave—that is, to be the happy foot washer of anyone today who needs his feet washed, his supper cooked, his faults overlooked,...
If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
If the yearning went away, what would we have to offer up to the Lord? Aren't they given to us to offer? It is the control of passion, not it's eradication, that is needed.
Faith is a decision.It is not a deduction from the facts around us. We would not look at the world of today and logically conclude that God loves us. It doesn't always look as though He does.Faith is...
Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the Rock-counsciousness of the promise given her, He g...