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Sometimes the Lord rides out the storm with us and other times He calms the
restless sea around us. Most of all, He calms the storm inside us in our deepest inner soul.
--Lloyd John Ogilvie
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With God our trust can be abandoned, utterly free. In him are no limitations, no flaws, no weaknesses. His judgment is perfect, his knowledge of us is perfect, his love is perfect. God alone is trustworthy.
--Eugenia Price
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In difficulties, I can drink free of God's power and experience his touch of refreshment and blessing-- much like an invigorating early spring rain.
--Anabel Gillham
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Weave the unveiling fabric of God's word through your heart and mind. It will hold strong, even if the rest of life unravels.
--Gigi Graham Tchividjian
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There is hardly ever complete silence in the soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, or sink low, then we hear the whisperings of God.
--F. W. Faber
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God is there to meet you in the center of all your trials, and to whisper His secrets, which will make you come forth with a shining face and an indomitable faith that all the demons of hell shall never afterwards cause to waver.
--E. A. Kilbourne
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Often, in the midst of great problems, we stop short of the real blessing God has for us, which is a fresh vision of who He is.
--Anne Graham Lotz
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God is unchangeable. He is as certain as the return of the high tide. To know that in our minds, even though our feelings are totally reserved, will be a help in restoring feelings of closeness to God. To focus on what is, rather than what we feel, is of vital importance.
--Elizabeth Skoglund
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God insists that He set up His throne in the heart, and reign in it, without a rival. If we keep Him from His right, it will not matter by what competitor.
--William Wilberforce
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The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
--Therese of Lisieux
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When are hearts are tenderly responsive . . . and it suits His greater plan, then the Lord will lift the thin veil that separates us. And we will be stunned to realize that He has been closer than our own breath all along.
--Patsy Clairmont
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We are always seeking the reason. We want to know why. But God does not
reveal His plan--He reveals Himself.
--Bob Benson
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Our circumstances are not an accurate reflection of God's goodness. Whether
life is good or bad, God's goodness, rooted in His character, is the same.
--Helen Grace Lescheid
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We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.
--A. W. Tozer
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God insists that He set up His throne in the heart, and reign in it, without a rival. If we keep Him from His right, it will not matter by what competitor.
--William Wilberforce
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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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Oh, when shall we learn the sweet trust in God that our little children teach us every day by their simple faith in us? . . . Why can't we, slipping our hand into His each day, walk trustingly over that day's appointed path, thorny or flowery, crooked or straight, knowing that evening will bring us to sleep, peace, and home?
--Phillips Brooks
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This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness -- in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us.
--Elisabeth Elliot
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When the sovereign God brings us to nothing, it is to reroute our lives, not to end them.
--Charles R. Swindoll
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Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.
--Oswald Chambers
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Easter tells us that old fears, old weaknesses, old sorrows, old doubts, are all passed away in the newness of the Savior's resurrection. Does anything keep you from this blessed newness? Do old, heavy problems lurk in your soul beneath new Easter garments? Analyze them in this day's radiance, and their darkness will disappear. Are your troubles money difficulties, family quarrels, questions of health? Are you the victim of malicious plotting, crooked politics, and hateful revenge? Stand before the empty tomb to realize that the Christ who has the power over death can control these smaller issues in your life and turn your crosses to advantages, as the Good Friday defeat gave way to the Easter victory. . . . Take heart in the Easter comfort that all God's beloved, through Christ, will come forth to life eternal!
--Walter A. Maier
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The one proof of a life beyond the grave is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Therefore, let us be glad with the gladness of men plucked from a dark abyss of doubt and uncertainty, and planted ona rock of solid certainty; and let us rejoice with joy unspeakable, and laden with a prophetic weight of glory, as we ring out the ancient Easter morning's greeting, "The Lord is risen indeed!"
--Alexander Maclaren
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Christ is alive and He will be alive forever! He has been alive and with His people al down the centuries! He is alive and with His people today; He will be alive and with His people to the end. Jesus Christ alive! He was in our yesterdays; He is in our todays; and thank God He will be in our tomorrows.
--John Daniel Jones
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In what strange quarries and stoneyards the stones for the celestial wall are being hewn! Out of the hillsides of humiliated pride; deep in the darkness of crushed despair; in the fretting and dusty atmosphere of little cares; in the hard cruel contacts that man has with man; wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
--Phillips Brooks
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I've never met anyone who became instantly mature. It's a painstaking process that God takes us through, and it includes such things as waiting, failing, losing, and being misunderstood -- each calling for extra doses of perseverance.
--Charles Swindoll
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Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes. Don't regret what is past. Cherish what you hve. Look forward to all that is to come. And most important of all, rely moment by moment on Jesus Christ.
-- Gigi Graham Tchividjian
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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 Weaver
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Into all our lives, in many simple, familiar ways, God infuses an element of joy from the surprises of life, which unexpectedly brighten our days, and fill our eyes with light.
-- Samuel Longfellow
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Let your faith in Christ be in the quiet confidence that He will every day and every moment keep you as the apple of His eye, keep you in perfect peace and in the sure experience of all the light and the strength you need.
-- Andrew Murray
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Be not afraid in misfortune. When God causes a tree to be hewn down, He takes care that His birds can nestle in another.
-- Unknown
