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- Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to answer our prayers. Our prayers…
- The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to…
- Grace stands in direct opposition to any supposed worthiness on our part. To say it another way: Grace and works are mutually exclusive. As Paul…
- Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is…
- The cure for impatience with the fulfillment of God's timetable is to believe His promises, obey His will, and leave the results to Him. So…
- Trials always change our relationship with God. Either they drive us to Him, or they drive us away from Him. The extent of our fear…
- Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up…
- God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of…
- God is never at a loss because He cannot find someone to cooperate with Him in carrying out His plan. He so moves in the…
- A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But…
- Nothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world governs the world; and that…
- Biblical love is not emotions or feelings, but attitudes and actions that seek the best interests of the other person, regardless of how we feel…
- Obeying the revealed will of God and trusting Him for the results.
- God is at work in all the circumstances of your life to bring out the good for you, even if you had never heard of…
- Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.
- It is just as important to trust God as it is to obey Him. When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His…
- The person who is living by grace sees this vast contrast between his own sins against God and the offenses of others against him. He…
- God's grace is not given to make us feel better, but to glorify Him... Good feelings may come, or they may not, but that is…
- Thankfulness to God is a recognition that God in His goodness and faithfulness has provided for us and cared for us, both physically and spiritually.…
- Jesus did not die just to save us from the penalty of sin, nor even just to make us holy in our standing before God.…
- Some days we may be more acutely conscious of our sinfulness and hence more aware of our need of His grace, but there is never…
- God never wastes pain. He always uses it to accomplish his purpose. And his purpose is for his glory and our good. Therefore we can…
- We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete…
- To live by grace is to live solely by the merit of Jesus Christ. To live by grace is to base my entire relationship with…
- When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden