
Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.
Charles Swindoll

Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.
Charles Swindoll

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with.
Thomas Kempis

Only as man brings his life into harmony with God does that life have balance and meaning. Then man finds that he is not simply a mass of dancing dirt, coming from nowhere and going nowhere.
Henry Schmidt

The whole duty and blessedness of waiting on God has its root in this, that He is such a blessed Being, full, to overflowing, of goodness and power and life and joy, that we, however wretched, cannot for any time come into contact with Him, without that life and power secretly, silently, beginning to enter into us and blessing us. God is Love! God’s love is just His delight to impart Himself and His blessedness to His children. Come, and however feeble you feel, just wait in His presence. As a feeble invalid is brought out into the sunshine to let its warmth go through him, come with all that is dark and cold in you into the sunshine of God’s holy, omnipotent love, and sit and wait there, with the one thought: Here I am, in the sunshine of His love. As the sun does its work in the weak one who seeks its rays, God will do His work in you.
Andrew Murray

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing happened.
Winston Churchill

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
James Dobson

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy.
Corrie Ten Boom

Thanksgiving is good, but thanks-living is better!
Matthew Henry

There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
John Calvin

Love people and use things. Donβt love things and use people.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things- I am tempted to think- there are no little things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
D. L. Moody

“He [Satan] will take away your prayer life little by little, and cause you to trust God less and less and yourself more and more, a little at a time. He will make you feel somewhat cleverer than before. Step by step, you are misled to rely more on your own gift, and step by step your heart is enticed away from the Lord.”

The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life coming flowing in.
C. S. Lewis

There are times when God wants to use you in someone else’s life; it may not be pretty or comfortable, but they need to see Jesus!

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one wasp!

‘Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that’s a tough call. That’s real rebellion.’
Alice Cooper


He who doesn’t forgive another, Breaks down the bridge over which he must cross himself!

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. It does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. It is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.
Corrie ten Boom
“The way to worry about nothing is to pray about everything”

An atheist can’t find God for the same reason a thief can’t find a policeman.
Adrian Rogers

My new word: “Blesson.” It’s when you’re able to view painful lessons as blessings. A blesson is what happens when you see the blessing in the lesson that your challenge taught you.
Karen Salmansohn
Sometimes I feel so helpless and weak. I think that is why God uses me’. β Mother Teresa

Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they are always there.
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through the first. The greatest poets have βlearned in suffering what they taught in song.β In bonds, Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the Pilgrimβs Progress. Take comfort, afflicted Christian! When God is about to make pre-eminent use of a person, He puts them in the fire.
George MacDonald

βImagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of β throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.β
C S Lewis

It Takes Just A Little⦠It takes so little to make us sad, Just a slighting word or a doubting sneer, Just a scornful smile on some lips held dear; And our footsteps lag, though the goal seemed near, And we lose the courage and hope we had- So little it takes to make us sad.
It takes so little to make us glad, Just a cheering clasp of a friendly hand, Just a word from one who can understand; And we finish the task we long had planned, And we lose the doubt and the fear we had- So little it takes to make us glad. ~Β Ida Goldsmith Morris
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by the dozen.
Michel de Montaigne

Don’t undervalue yourself. Your worth is what you are worth to God and that is a massive amount; Jesus valued you enough to die for you! ~Β Nicky Gumbel

βSome people put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down.β

The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.
Oswald Chambers

If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can’t take God into your recreation, there is something wrong with your play. We all believe in the God of the heroic. What we need most these days is the God of the humdrum, the commonplace, the everyday.
Peter Marshall

The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
John Ortberg

You reveal your own character most clearly when you describe someone elseβs.

Worship is our response, both personal and corporate, to God for who He is! and what He has done! Expressed in and by the things we say and the way we live. ~Β Louie Giglio
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Β Isaiah 1:11-17 ~ Bible Gateway
The Message (MSG)Β
11-12Β βWhy this frenzy of sacrifices?β
Β Β Β Β GodβsΒ asking.
βDonβt you think Iβve had my fill of burnt sacrifices,
Β Β Β Β rams and plump grain-fed calves?
Donβt you think Iβve had my fill
Β Β Β Β of blood from bulls, lambs, and goats?
When you come before me,
Β Β Β Β whoever gave you the idea of acting like this,
Running here and there, doing this and thatβ
Β Β Β Β all this sheerΒ commotionΒ in the place provided for worship?
13-17Β βQuit your worship charades.
Β Β Β Β I canβt stand your trivial religious games:
Monthly conferences, weekly Sabbaths, special meetingsβ
Β Β Β Β meetings, meetings, meetingsβI canβt stand one more!
Meetings for this, meetings for that. I hate them!
Β Β Β Β Youβve worn me out!
Iβm sick of your religion, religion, religion,
Β Β Β Β while you go right on sinning.
When you put on your next prayer-performance,
Β Β Β Β Iβll be looking the other way.
No matter how long or loud or often you pray,
Β Β Β Β Iβll not be listening.
And do you know why? Because youβve been tearing
Β Β Β Β people to pieces, and your hands are bloody.
Go home and wash up.
Β Β Β Β Clean up your act.
Sweep your lives clean of your evildoings
Β Β Β Β so I donβt have to look at them any longer.
Say no to wrong.
Β Β Β Β Learn to do good.
Work for justice.
Β Β Β Β Help the down-and-out.
Stand up for the homeless.
Β Β Β Β Go to bat for the defenceless.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
D. L. Moody

We want to be saints, but we also want to feel every sensation experienced by sinners; we want to be innocent and pure, but we also want to be experienced and taste all of life; we want to serve the poor and have a simple lifestyle, but we also want all the comforts of the rich; we want to have the depth afforded by solitude, but we also do not want to miss anything; we want to pray, but we also want to watch television, read, talk to friends, and go out. ~Β Ronald Rolheiser

Always, love is a choice. You come up against scores of opportunities every day to love or not to love. You encounter hundreds of small chances to please your friends, delight your Lord, and encourage your family. That’s why love and obedience are intimately linked- you can’t have one without the other. ~Β Joni Eareckson Tada

I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view. ~Β Madeleine L’Engle

βThe words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?β

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas Kempis
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βTo love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.β ~ C.S Lewis

The bad stuff will take you further than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay and cost you more than you want to pay.

If you want your dreams to come true, don’t oversleep. Β Β Β Β Β ~ Nicky Gumbel

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‘Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.’
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