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Taken separately, the experiences of life can work harm and not good. Taken together, they make a pattern of blessing and strength the like of which the world does not know.
--V. Raymond Edman
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Jesus is in the boat with us, no matter how wild the storm is, and He is at peace. He commands us not to be afraid.
--Elisabeth Elliot
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If you are seeking after God, you may be sure of this: God is seeking you much more. He is the Lover, and you are His beloved. He has promised Himself to you.
--St. John of the Cross
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Hope does not necessarily take the form of excessive confidence; rather, it involves the simple willingness to take the next step.
--Stanley Hauerwas
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Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His presence.
--Paul Claudel
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From the tiny birds of the air and from the fragile lilies of the field, we
learn the same truth: God takes care of His own. . . . At just the right
moment, He steps in and proves Himself as our faithful heavenly Father.
--Charles Swindoll
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You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.
--Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into the open air, look up into the depths of the sky, or out upon the wideness of the sea, or on the strength of the hills that is His also; or, if bound in the body, go forth in the spirit; spirit
is not bound. Give Him time and, as surely as dawn follows night, there will break upon the heart a sense of certainty that cannot be shaken.
--Amy Carmichael, "Gold Cord"
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Be still, and in the quiet moments, listen to the voice of your heavenly
Father. His words can renew your spirit . . . no one knows you and your
needs like He does.
--Janet L. Weaver
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Oh, that we would turn eye and heart from everything else and fix them upon this God who hears prayer until the magnificence of His promises and His power and His purpose of love overwhelms us.
--Andrew Murray
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We do not understand the intricate pattern of the stars in their courses,
but we know that He who created them does, and that just as surely as He guides them, He is charting a safe course for us.
--Billy Graham
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The tragedies that now blacken and darken the very air of heaven for us, will sink into their places in a scheme so august, so magnificent, so
joyful, that we shall laugh for wonder and delight.
--Arthur Christopher Bacon
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With God there is always more unfolding, that what we can glimpse of the divine is always exactly enough, and never enough.
--Kathleen Norris
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The God who created the vast resources of the universe is also the inventor of the human mind. His inspired words of encouragement guarantee us that we can live above our circumstances.
--James Dobson
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What do you do when God puts you on hold? You hang onto the God you already know. You trust the One who's held onto you in the past. And you stay in His presence. Difficult as it may be, you dare not abandon the opportunity of His presence.
--Bryan Aalborg
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Mourning is a process that cannot be hurried; each significant loss is
experienced and processed according to its own timetable. But in the
darkness of your own particular sorrow, it is imperative to remember that God stands forever ready, always offering His healing hand to you.
--Criswell Freeman
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A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
--Charles Swindoll
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The Lord who allows each of us to grieve differently also knows and provides precisely what will bring comfort to our hearts.
--Zig Ziglar
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Relying on God has to begin over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
--C. S. Lewis
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In our periods of deepest grief, we can trust God to prepare someone to come our way to speak a word of love or encouragement.
--Zig Ziglar
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God doesn't always smooth the path, but sometimes he puts springs in the wagon.
--Marshall Lucas
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There are certain weights in life you simply cannot carry. Your Lord is
asking you to set them down and trust Him. What do you say we take God up on His offer?
--Max Lucado
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God is every moment totally aware of each one of us. . . . No man passes through any area of life, happy or tragic, without the attention of God with him.
--Eugenia Price
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He stands fast as your rock, steadfast as your safeguard, sleepless as your watcher, valiant as your champion.
--Charles H. Spurgeon
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The Lord Jesus, who in his love is so unspeakably near us, is the Almighty One with whom nothing is impossible.
--Andrew Murray
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How many seconds lie between a man's beginning to sink and his sinking? A single second or less, I suppose. How swift then, was the movement of love! And as He was, so He is.
--Amy Carmichael
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Our Father knows our weaknesses even better than we do, and he does not expect us to become saints overnight. But he does demand that we keep moving in that direction, or as the good old Methodist phrase puts it, that we continue "groaning toward perfection." At each step of the journey, the question that really matters is not whether we are a little farther along than some of our friends and neighbors, but how far we have progressed since yesterday.
--Louis Cassels
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Ever and everywhere a mighty battle is raging around us, a battle in which we are all volunteers, aye, and enrolled soldiers on either side of the great silent internal battle, of lust against purity, of truth against falsehood, of right against wrong. It needs no splendid occasion, no stately amphitheater, no pomp and prodigality of outward circumstances: for its seat is in the human heart. But its effects and issues are in the world.
--Frederick William Faber
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True have his promises been; not one has failed. I want none beside him. In life he is my life, and in death he shall be the death of death; in poverty, Christ is my riches; in sickness, he makes my bed; in darkness, he is my star, and in brightness, he is my sun; he is the manna of the camp in the wilderness, and he shall be the new corn of the host when they come to Canaan. Jesus is to me all grace and no wrath, all truth and no falsehood; and of truth and grace he is full, infinitely full.
--Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Peace with God brings the peace of God. It is a peace that settles our
nerves, fills our mind, floods our spirit, and in the midst of the uproar
around us, gives us the assurance that everything is all right.
--Bob Mumford
