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The God who orchestrates the universe has a good many things to consider that have not occurred to me, and it is well that I leave them to Him.
--Elisabeth Elliot
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Oftentimes God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.
--Charles Stanley
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Put your expectations on God and enjoy watching Him answer your prayers.
--Jan Carlberg
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The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
--Unknown
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Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential.
--Max DePree
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We often reject a passing good that God offers us because we want or expect some other good.
--Terry Lindvall
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You are infinitely dear to the Father, unspeakably precious to Him. You are never, not for one second, alone.
--Norman F. Dowty
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God's curriculum for all who sincerely want to know Him and do His will always includes lessons we wish we could skip. . . . With intimate understanding of our deepest needs and individual capacities, He chooses our curriculum.
--Elisabeth Elliot
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The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.
--J. I. Packer
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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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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred other virtues which the idele never know.
--Charles Kingsley
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God is a rich and bountiful Father, and he does not forget his children, nor
withhold from them anything which would be to their advantage to receive.
--J. K. Maclean
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Peace with God brings 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
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Without an hourly, daily return to the wonder of Calvary, there's no lasting transformation.
--Lloyd Ogilvie
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When God is about to do something great, he starts with a difficulty. When he is about to do something truly magnificent, he starts with an impossibility.
--Armin Gesswein
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I have never committed the least matter to God, that I have not had reason for infinite praise.
--Anna Shipton
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Even when we cannot see the why and the wherefore of God's dealings, we know
that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.
--J. I. Packer
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Are you weak? Weary? Confused? Troubled? Pressured? How is your relationship with God? Is it held in its place of priority? I believe the greater the
pressure, the greater your need for time alone with Him.
--Kay Arthur
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It's safe to trust God's methods and to go by His clock.
--S. D. Gordon
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God Himself works in our souls, in their deepest depths, taking increasing control as we are progressively willing to be prepared for His wonder.
--Thomas Kelly
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How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of him who bears up the
world.
--Jean Paul Richter
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We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.
--Elisabeth Elliot
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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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Since God offers to manage our affairs for us, let us once and for all hand them over to His infinite wisdom, in order to occupy ourselves only with Himself and what belongs to Him.
--J. P. de Caussade
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I'm convinced that one of the best things God does for us is to keep us from knowing what will happen beyond today. Just think of all the stuff you didn't have to worry about just because you never knew it was coming your way!
--Charles Swindoll
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Buried under the biggest burden is a good place to find an even bigger blessing.
--Janette Oke
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Whenever I am afield or outdoors, there steals over me the acute consciousness that I am confronted on every hand by the superb workmanship of my Father. It is as if every tree, rock, river, flower, mountain, bird, or blade of grass had stamped upon it the indelible label, "Made by God." Is it any wonder that in a simple yet sublime sense of devotion, respect, and reverence for all life, Christ longed for His Father's name to be hollowed throughout the earth?
--Phillip Keller
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No matter what our journeys lead us through, we always end up in God. From
where we stand now, our future may look dreadful, exciting, boring, but we may rest assured that we are in better hands than our own if we simply give our future to Christ.
--Leslie Williams
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No matter how unloved you have felt in the past, no matter how lost you feel in your sin, God knew all that when he chose you-- and he wants you anyway.
--Wayne Jacobsen
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Before us is a future all unknown, a path untrod;
Beside us a friend well-loved and known--
That friend is God.
--Unknown
