Sin would have fewer takers if the consequences were immediate.
Charles Spurgeon
Mankind wants glory. We want health. We want wealth. We want happiness. We want all our felt needs met, all our little human itches scratched. We want a painless life. We want the crown without the cross. We want the gain without the pain. We want the words of Christβs salvation to be easy.
John MacArthur
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is… A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
C S Lewis
There are fathers waiting until other obligations are less demanding to become acquainted with their sons.Β There are mothers who sincerely intend to be more attentive to their daughters.Β There are husbands and wives who are going to be more understanding.Β But time does not draw people closer.Β When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life?Β This is our time, our dayβ¦and it is passing.Β What are we waiting for?
Richard L. Evans

Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldnβt do at all.
Morris Mandel


There is only one basis for really enjoying life, and that is, to walk in the way in which God leads you. Then you are prepared to find delight in all sorts of wayward incidentsβ¦.When a man is drifting through life, seeking nothing outside of self-gratification, the world must become increasingly a barren and forbidding wilderness. But it is wonderful how many delights fall to the lot of him who is led by God. For such a one the clasp of a friendβs hand, a cool drink in the heat of noon, a merry salutation from a passing traveler, a glimpse of beauty by the road, a quiet resting place at night, are all full of unspeakable pleasure.
Leaves of Gold

A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution.
Billy Graham

Be generous with encouragement. It is verbal sunshine. It costs nothing and it warms hearts.

Each one of us is God’s special work of art. Through us, He teaches and inspires, delights and encourages, informs and uplifts all those who view our lives. God, the master artist, is most concerned about expressing Himself- His thoughts and His intentions- through what He paints in our character; He wants to paint a beautiful portrait of His Son in and through your life. A painting like no other in all of time.
Joni Eareckson Tada

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
C. S. Lewis

Study the word of God daily. You will sense Him speaking to you directly β refreshing your heart, feeding your mind and changing your life.

The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance; the wise person grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim

Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain.
C. S. Lewis

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If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.
Billy Sunday

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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, βI was wrong.β
Sydney J. Harris


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There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in Godβs mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements.
John Henry Newman

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Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.Β For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still.
C. S. Lewis


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