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At every moment of time we reach two ways---toward the past and toward the future. Today is always the day toward which we once looked forward, and of which we dreamed. Today is the day toward which we shall one day look back, and about which we shall muse. New Year's Day more than any other is such a day, because we think of it as a turning point between the failures and faults of the past and the better and braver deeds of the future. --Harley H. Gill
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How God works in answer to prayer is a mystery that logic cannot penetrate, but that He does work in answer to prayer is gloriously true. --Oswald Chambers
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If I forget,
Yet God remembers!
If these hands of mine
Cease from their clinging,
Yet the hands divine
Hold me so firmly that I cannot fall;
And if sometimes I am too tired to call
For him to help me, then he reads the prayer
Unspoken in my heart, and lifts my care.
--Robert Browning
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It is but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us. --Richard Baxter
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Our commitment to Christ, however genuine and whole-hearted it may be today, must be renewed tomorrow . . . and the day after that . . . and the day after that . . . until the path comes at last to the river. --Louis Cassels
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No man is in true health who cannot stand in the free air of heaven, with his feet on God's free turf, and thank his Creator for the simple luxury of physical existence. --T. W. Higginson
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He knows when we are spiritually ready for receive the blessing to our profit and His glory. Waiting in the sunshine of His love is what will ripen the soul for His blessing. Waiting under the cloud of trial, that breaks in showers of blessings, is as needful. Be assured that if God waits longer than you could wish, it is only to make the blessing doubly precious. God waited four thousand years, till the fulness of time, ere He sent His Son. Our times are in His hands; He will avenge His elect speedily; He will make haste for our help, and not delay one hour too long. --Andrew Murray
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If we need something to buttress us in the inevitable struggles of life, there is nothing that can help us more than the conviction that each one of us is sought by him who made the Pleiades and Orion, that each of us is truly known as no finite men can ever know us, and that, in spite of our feebleness and sin, we can become channels of God's universal love. --D. Elton Trueblood
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The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration. --O. Hallesby
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Our Father, we are beginning to understand at last that the things that are wrong with our world are the sum total of all the things that are wrong with us as individuals. Thou hast made us after Thine image, and our hearts can find no rest until they rest in Thee. --Peter Marshall
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He commonly brings His help in our greatest extremity, and that His finger may plainly appear in our deliverance. And this method He chooses that we may not trust upon anything that we see or feel, as we are always apt to do, but only His bare Word, which we may depend upon in every state. --A. H. Von Bogatzky
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The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe. --Charles Williams
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Your suffering, like nothing else, has prepared you to meet God -- for what proof could you have brought of your love if this life left you totally unscarred? --Joni Eareckson Tada
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Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus. --A. B. Simpson
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When we have done all we can, we must still wait for God to accomplish His purposes. As we wait, we can fix our eyes on Jesus as a companion who empathizes with our suffering and a Savior who is working behind the scenes. Difficult circumstances seem to increase our ability to experience intimacy with Christ. --Ruthann Ridley
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God soon turns from his wrath, but he never turns from his love. --Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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We are so precisely loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it. No created being can ever know how much and how sweetly and tenderly God loves them. It is only with the help of his grace that we are able to persevere in spiritual contemplation with endless wonder at this high, surpassing, immeasurable love which our Lord in his goodness has for us. --Julian of Norwich
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Every passage in the history of our Lord and Savior is of unfathomable depth and affords inexhaustible matter for contemplation. All that concerns him is infinite, and what we first discern is but the surface of that which begins and ends in eternity. --Cardinal John Henry Newman
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We should all like life to be free from suffering, and our love to be free from pain. But there is no true love without suffering. So the highest love of all, the love of Christ for men, showed unforgettably how deeply he must suffer in order to bring men to himself. --J. B. Phillips
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From morning to night keep Jesus in your heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing, but to have all that is within you changed into the spirit and temper of the Holy Jesus. --William Law
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My soul, hearken to the voice of your God. He is always ready to speak with you when you are prepared to hear. If there is any slowness to commune, it is not on His part but altogether on your own, for He stands at the door and knocks, and if His people will but open, He rejoices to enter. --Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Our life is full of brokenness-- bitter relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives? --Henri Nouwen
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Hypocrites in the church? Yes, and in the lodge, and at home. Don't hunt through the church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the glass. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less. --Billy Sunday
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I pray God may open your eyes and let you see what hidden treasures He bestows on us in the trials from which the world thinks only to flee. --John of Avila
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Our valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see God and the angels, heaven's spectators, who support us according to God's infinite wisdom as they prepare our welcome home. --Billy Graham
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Rejoice in knowing that you belong to God and that He is conforming you to the image of His Son. See every event of this day as part of that process. Yield to the Spirit's prompting, and take heart that God will accomplish His will. --John MacArthur
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If you have the courage to let Christ into every room of your life, He will come in and redecorate your life so it is more beautiful that you ever imagined possible. But you'll never know until you start opening those doors. --Ray Pritchard
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God usually answers our prayers so much more according to the measure of His own magnificence, than of our asking, that we do not recognize His benefits to be those for which we sought Him.
--Coventry Patmore
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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
--Henry Ward Beecher
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Christ has turned all our sunsets into dawns.
--Clement of Alexandria
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What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.
--G. Campbell Morgan
