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On days when life is difficult and I feel overwhelmed, as I do fairly often, it helps to remember in my prayers that all God requires of me that day is to trust Him and be His friend. I find I can do that.
--Bruce Larson
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God will never reveal more truth about Himself until you have obeyed what you know already.
--Oswald Chambers
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Did you know that things that are happening to you right now are to prepare you to fulfill a beautiful dream that God wants to place in your life?
--Dale E. Galloway
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No created being can ever know how much and how sweetly and tenderly God loves them. It is only with the help of His grace that we are able to persevere. . . with endless wonder at His high, surpassing, immeasurable love.
--Julian of Norwich
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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for. Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
--Peter Marshall
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Adversity is God's tool to promote growth among His children. To resist this principle is to resist all that God wants to do in your life; it is to say no to spiritual growth.
--Charles Stanley
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Maturing faith creates a warm glow of confidence that God is working through you to accomplish His purpose.
--Merlin Carothers
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Do not be afraid to be touched with afflictions beyond your own ability to cope. It is from being shaken apart and not being destroyed that one becomes strong and courageous.
--Laura Lewis Lanier
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What could God accomplish through you if He had your undivided attention and loyalty?
--Charles Stanley
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In God's economy, whether He is making a flower or a human soul, nothing ever comes to nothing. The losses are His way of accomplishing the gains.
--Elisabeth Eliot
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Picture yourself falling into the arms of Jesus, fully satisfied, fully at rest.
--Richard J. Foster
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When we choose deliberately to obey Him, then He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist us with all His almighty power.
--Oswald Chambers
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Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves the One who is leading.
--Barbara Johnson
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A man who is willing to follow God may not always do what is popular or convenient, but he will do what is right and good. Then he will have no regrets if others choose to follow his example.
--Roy Lessin
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The fierce grip of panic need not immobilize you. God knows no limitation when it comes to deliverance. Admit your fear. Commit it to Him. Dump the pressure on Him. He can handle it.
--Charles Swindoll
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Beware of cut-and-dried theologies that reduce the ways of God to a manageable formula that keeps life safe. God often does the unexplainable just to keep us on our toes -- and also on our knees.
--Warren Wiersbe
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If God, like a father, denies us what we want now, it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.
--Elisabeth Elliot
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Nothing can reach us, from any source in earth or hell, no matter how evil, which God cannot turn to His own redemptive purpose. Let us be glad that the way is not a game of chance -- it is a way appointed for God's eternal glory and our final good.
--Elisabeth Elliot
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There is no greater joy than the peace and assurance of knowing that, whatever the future may hold, you are secure in the loving arms of the Savior.
--Billy Graham
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Sometimes the Lord calms the storm; sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms the child.
-- Unknown
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When the sovereign God brings us to nothing, it is to reroute our lives, not to end them.
--Charles Swindoll
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Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the process of creation and relationship, what seems mundane and trivial may show itself to be holy, precious, part of a pattern.
--Luci Shaw
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Lift up your eyes. The heavenly Father waits to bless you -- in inconceivable ways to make your life what you never dreamed it could be.
--Anne Ortlund
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We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's
great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.
--P. T. Forsyth
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How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him
because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.
--George MacDonald
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When we won't let ourselves be held in the midst of our messes by God who loves us and made us, we miss the unspeakable joy of knowing that we are truly His beloved.
--Deborah Newman
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If you are frustrated today about the call of God on your life, I can tell you that you are in the testing ground. And what God does with you later fully depends on how you pass your tests now. Through this process, God is developing character on the inside of you.
--Joyce Meyer
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My best asking falls immeasurably short of my Father's giving; it is beyond that we can ask.
--J. H. Jowett
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Trust God for great things; with your five loaves and two fishes, He will show you a way to feed thousands.
--Horace Bushnell
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God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. . . . "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" -- this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.
--Oswald Chambers
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Strength is born in the deep silence of longsuffering hearts; not amid joy.
--Felicia Hemans
