“Our culture says ‘live your dream,’ but God calls you to place your dream on His altar and to keep it there at all times. It is good to have hopes and dreams for the future, but we have no… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
Lord, make me less like Jonah and more like Jesus. Save me from being the kind of person who cares more about my comfort,… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
“The person who learns to number his or her days gains a heart of wisdom (Ps. 90:12).” — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose. — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
“He is the Creator and the sustainer of all things. He is the unchanging, self-existent God, and that means that He depends on nobody.… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
“In serving as a pastor for over thirty years, I have seen some remarkable transformations and I’ve seen some big disappointments. I have two observations. First, where there has been lasting change, the common factor, in every case, is that the Word of God has had a significant entrance into the person’s life. Second, where godly change has failed to… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share
“The Bible is different because it is the Word of God, by which He speaks to me. Disagreeing with the Bible would be disagreeing with God. So when I read the Bible I want to place myself ‘under’ it. I want to receive the Scripture in such a way that over time, my thinking, feeling, choosing, believing and behaving will… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share
“The dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature, which if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. … There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share
God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
“If you can grasp those two truths—you are made in His image and dependent on Him—you will discover a great dignity and at the… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
“There will be times in your life when you want to pray but feel so far from God that prayer seems impossible. The flesh will tell you that God is against you, that you have gone too far and that He is no longer interested in you. But faith defies the flesh. It contradicts Satan’s lies. It rises up against… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share
