Spend This...

“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.” ~ Anne Lamott

Prayer

"Prayer has primarily to do with God, not us." ~ Eugene H. Peterson

No Applause?

"A quality of servanthood—being faithful even if your name never gets mentioned." ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss

What Represents Your Voice?

"A holy life is a voice; it speaks when the tongue is silent, and is either a constant attraction or a perpetual reproof." ~ Robert Leighton

Restored

"The whole purpose of God in redemption is to make us holy and to restore us to the image of God. To accomplish this, He disengages us from earthly ambitions and draws us away from the cheap and unworthy prizes that worldly men set their hearts upon." ~ A. W. Tozer

All or None

“He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.” ~ Francis Chan (Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God)

Fathers...

"Remember, Fathers, that your children’s view of God will largely be dependent on their view of you." ~ Tony Evans (Kingdom Man)

Cultivate

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates." ~ Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Every Year You Live...

‎"Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture." ~ J.C. Ryle

Keep Working...

"We ought never to think we have done enough when there is question of eternity." ~ Gregory

Your Calling as a Wife and Mother

"If you're a mom, God has called you to mother those children. If you're a wife, God has called you to bless and serve and fulfill the needs of your husband, to be a keeper of your home. That's God's calling. When you do that, you are serving the Lord. Don't get distracted." ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Resurrection Joy

"Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness." ~ Floyd W. Tomkins

Fall Fresh on Me

"Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on us.
Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on us.
Melt us, mould us, fill us, use us.
Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on us."

~ Michael Iverson

Love While You Can

"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." ~ G. K. Chesterton

Hold On

"Let people hold to their lifework through mood and melancholy. Let them hold to it through headache and through heartache. For whoever watches the wind will never plant, and whoever looks at the clouds will never reap." ~ George H. Morrison

If You Died Tonight

"Live as though today you may die a martyr's death." ~ Charles de Foucauld

If You Died Tonight by Big Daddy Weave

Not My Will But Thine

"My God, I am not my own but yours,
take me for your own
and help me in all things to do your holy will."

~ Christopher Herbert

Persistence

"Nothing will take the place of persistence; talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not: unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent." ~ Calvin Coolidge

Ripple Effect

"Simple faith can lead to amazing things. A single act of kindness can have a ripple effect that has an impact on countless people. It could even lead to something much bigger, like a project that fights poverty or injustice and in the process changes lives." ~ Marcia Ford (Essentials for Life for Women)

Nothing But the Truth

"God, help me to tell just the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth in such a way and with such timing as to be honest and winsome, too." ~ Fletcher Spruce

God Is Interested

"By teaching and life Jesus showed that to know a God who is thus vitally interested in all his children's concerns is to have the secret of a peace, a poise, and a steadiness that nothing in life can disturb." ~ James S. Stewart

Words & Actions

"Lord, let my life be orderly, regular, temperate; let no pride or self-seeking, no covetousness or revenge, no little ends and low imaginations pollute my spirit and unhallow my words and actions." ~ Jeremy Taylor

God's Work + God's Supplies

God's work done in God's way never lacks God's supplies." ~ Hudson Taylor

Prayer Defines

“Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit.” ~ S.D. Gordon

Prayer is a Priviledge

“Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty” ~ E.M. Bounds

Power in Prayer

“There is no power like that of prevailing prayer; of Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken with remorse and grief, Jesus in the sweat of blood. Add to this list from the records of the church your personal observation and experience, and always there is the cost of passion unto blood. Such prayer prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into people of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.” ~ Samuel Chadwick

For Peace that Passeth Understanding ~ Pray

“Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.” ~ R.A. Torrey

Just Pray

“The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.” ~ S.D. Gordon

What Reward Do You Seek?

"Do you seek any further reward beyond that of having pleased God? In truth, you know not how great a good it is to please Him." ~ John Chrysostom

Let Spring Begin

"Lord, end my winter, and let my spring begin. I cannot with all my longings raise my soul out of her death and dullness, but all things are possible with thee. I need celestial influences, the clear shinings of thy love, the beams of thy grace, the light of thy countenance." ~ Charles Spurgeon

Alone With God

“Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself alone with God, to pray to Him in secret. Let this be your chief objective in prayer, to realize the presence of your heavenly Father.” ~ Andrew Murray

Wait On Him

“Since the days of Pentecost, has the whole church ever put aside every other work and waited upon Him for ten days, that the Spirit’s power might be manifested? We give too much attention to method and machinery and resources, and too little to the source of power.” ~ Hudson Taylor

Prayer Is...

“Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.” ~ Martin Luther

You Can't Fool God

‎"It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ." ~ J.C. Ryle