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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.
--Barbara Johnson
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God gives His servants a taste in this life, yet the harvest and the vintage are to come, when they that suffer with Christ Jesus shall reign with Him, and they that have sown in tears shall reap the never-ending harvest of inconceivable joys.
--Roger Williams
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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.
--C. H. Von Bogatzky
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When circumstances seem impossible, when all signs of grace in you seem at their lowest ebb, when temptation is fiercest, when love and joy and hope seem well-nigh extinguished in your heart, then rest, without feeling and without emotion, in the Father's faithfulness.
--C. Tryon
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God has a course mapped out for your life, and all the inadequacies in the world will not change His mind. He will be with you every step of the way. And though it may take time, He has a celebration planned for when you cross over the "Red Seas" of your life.
--Charles Stanley
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God speaks to us through our desires, then as we lay them at His feet, He helps us sort them out and quiets our hearts to accept what He has already prepared.
--Rosalind Rinker
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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 is not the slightest degree baffled or bewildered by what baffles and bewilders us. He is either a present help for he is not much help at all.
--J. B. Phillips
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Even in terrible circumstances and calamities, in matters of life and death, if I sense that I am in the shadow of God, I find light, so much light that my vision improves dramatically. I know that holiness is near.
--Kathleen Norris
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God's silence is in no way indicative of His activity or involvement in our lives. He may be silent but He is not still.
--Charles Stanley
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No matter how difficult the chalenge, when we spread our wings of faith and allow the winds of God's Spirit to lift us, no obstacle is too great to overcome.
--Roy Lessin
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May God give us a pure heart so we may see Him; a humble heart so we may
hear Him; a loving heart so we may serve Him; a faithful heart so we may live Him.
--Dag Hammarskjold
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Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them, day after day. What you promise today must be renewed and redecided tomorrow and each day that stretches out before you.
--Arthur Gordon
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Hidden in the hollow
Of His blessed hand,
Never foe can follow,
Never traitor stand;
Not a surge of worry,
Not a shade of care,
Not a blast of hurry
Touch the Spirit there.
--Frances R. Havergal
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It takes some of us a lifetime to learn that Christ, our Good Shepherd, knows exactly what He is doing with us. He understands us perfectly.
--Phillip Keller
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Faith recognizes the fact that God is in control of my life. Whether I believe it or not, it's a fact that God is in control of the world. If I don't believe it, I'm just robbing myself of the enjoyment of the fact.
--Paul Little
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God has given us prayer that we might draw close to Him, that we might share
our lives with Him, and that we might see the miracle of answered prayer each day of our lives.
--Hope MacDonald
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We forget that God sometimes has to say "No." We pray to Him as our heavenly
Father, and like wise human fathers, He often says, "No," not from whim or
caprice, but from wisdom and from love, and knowing what is best for us.
--Peter Marshall
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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and
wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
--John Ortberg
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The beautiful thing about this adventure called faith is that we can count on Him never to lead us astray.
--Charles Swindoll
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Ordinary work, which is what most of us do most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.
--Elisabeth Elliot
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Christ's life outwardly was one of the most troubled lives that was ever lived: tempest and tumult, tumult and tempest, the waves breaking over it all the time. But the inner life was a sea of glass. The great calm was always there.
--Henry Drummond
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A missionary told how she was once describing the loving character of God to a gathering of Chinese women. As she told of the Father's love, compassion and mercy with great enthusiasm, one of the Chinese women turned to her neighbor and said, "Haven't I often told you that there ought to be a God like that?"
--Unknown
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He knows when we go into the storm, He watches over us in the storm, and He
can bring us out of the storm when His purposes have been fulfilled.
--Warren W. Wiersbe
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Our only warrant for believing that God cares is that he has communicated that fact to us. It is the key fact about himself which he has chosen to reveal to us, and it is the most comforting fact imaginable.
--Louis Cassels
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Even when we cannot see the why and 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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One of the reasons God allows adversity into our lives is to get our attention.
--Charles Stanley
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God's never been guilty of sponsoring a flop.
--Ethel Waters
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Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He began by forgiving us. And He invites us all to forgive each other.
--Lewis B. Smedes
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No affliction or temptation, no guilt nor power of sin, no wounded spirit nor terrified conscience, should induce us to despair of help and comfort from God.
--Thomas Scott
