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We have not to do with a God who is off there above the sky, who can deal with us only through the violations of physical law. We have instead a God in whom we live and move and are, whose being opens into ours and ours into his, who is the very life of our lives, the matrix of our personality; and there is no separation between us unless we make it ourselves.
--Rufus Matthew Jones
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Our joy will be complete if we remain in his love--for his love is personal, intimate, real, living, delicate, faithful love.
--Mother Teresa
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God's love is never, never exclusive. It is always totally inclusive and is
never measured nor regulated in any way by the nature of the loved one. God's love is always and only regulated by the nature of God Himself.
--Eugenia Price
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The highest pinnacle of the spiritual life is not joy in unbroken sunshine,
but absolute and undoubting trust in the love of God.
--A. W. Thorold
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Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a simple movement of heart toward God will renew our powers. Whatever he may demand of us, he will give us at the moment the strength and courage that we need.
--Francois de Fenelon
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With God, saying and doing are not two things as they are with men. God will do what He has said.
--Matthew Henry
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At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.
--Os Guinness
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It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.
--Simone Weil
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Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that he can subsequently open the door through which he wants us to go.
--Catherine Marshall
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The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are
small.
--Mary Webb
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God wants us to lay our burdens on him and rest in his love. It's his
responsibility to work out the purpose and plan in our hardships. Only our refusal to trust him . . . can hinder his purposes in our lives.
--Joni Eareckson Tada
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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.
--Elisabeth Elliot
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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
--A. W. Tozer
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Thank the Lord, it is His love that arranges our tomorrows--and we may be certain that whatever tomorrow brings, His love sent it our way.
--Charles Swindoll
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A quiet morning with a loving God puts the events of the upcoming day into proper perspective.
--Janette Oke
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God still draws near to us in the ordinary, commonplace, everyday
experiences and places. . . . He comes in surprising ways.
--Henry Gariepy
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I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless, and that it is
good for us all that it should be so, even if it runs counter to our own
wishes. As I see it, I'm here for some purpose, and I only hope I may
fulfill it. In the light of the great purpose all our privations and
disappointments are trivial.
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.
--Charles Swindoll
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There is no event so commonplace but that God is present within it, always hiddenly, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not recognize Him, but all the more fascinatingly because of that, all the more compellingly and hauntingly.
--Frederick Buechner
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Delight me to see how your Christ plays in ten thousand places. . .to the Father through the features of men's faces. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. I do not ask to see the reason for it all; I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
--Joshua Abraham Heschel
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"God allows me to come into this trouble to see if I will glorify Him in
it.This trial, be it great or small, is allowed by God and is His will
concerning me.Let me first recognize and submit to God's will in it.Then
with the peace of God which this gives I will receive wisdom to know how to behave in it.............Commit your right and your honor into God's
keeping. Meet every offense that man commits against you with the firm trust that God will watch over and take care of you."
--Andrew Murray
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One of the most wonderful things about knowing God is that there's always so much more to know, so much more to discover. Just when we least expect it, He intrudes into our neat and tidy notions about who He is and how He works.
--Joni Eareckson Tada
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When God finds a soul that rests in Him and is not easily moved, He operates within it in His own manner. That soul allows God to do great things within it. He gives to such a soul the key to the treasures He has prepared for it so that it might enjoy them. And to this same soul He gives the joy of His presence which entirely absorbs such a soul.
--Catherine of Genoa
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God may be invisible, but He's in touch. You may not be able to see Him, but He is in control. And that includes you--your circumstances. That includes what you've just lost. That includes what you've just gained. That includes all of life--past, present, future.
--Charles Swindoll
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Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no, it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us.
--Max Lucado
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The mystery of life is that the Lord of life cannot be known except in and through the act of living. Without the concrete and specific involvements of daily life we cannot come to know the loving presence of Him who holds us in the palm of His hand. . . . Therefore, we are called each day to present to our Lord the whole of our lives.
--Henri J. M. Nouwen
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You do not know what you are going to do; the only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing. . . . It is this attitude that keeps you in perpetual wonder-you do not know what God is going to do next.
--Oswald Chambers
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God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.
--Richard J. Foster
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If it can be verified, we don't need faith. . . . Faith is for that which
lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with
all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
--Madeleine L'Engle
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The Lord is glad to open the gate to every knocking soul. It opens very
freely; its hinges are not rusted, no bolts secure it. Have faith and enter
at this moment through holy courage. If you knock with a heavy heart, you shall yet sing with joy of spirit. Never be discouraged!
--Charles Spurgeon
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Anything that is of concern to you is fair grounds for prayer. The power and beauty of prayer will come shining through in the specificity of your
praying. God will cease to be "out there" or "up there" and will come to reside in your everyday life. God will not be Creator only but will become Companion.
--Steve Harper
