Hope

"In Jesus Christ, every sin has been paid for; every closed door flung wide open; every empty table filled with his abundance; every grave prepared for resurrection; every demon cast into the swine and sent over the hill; every broken wall has been rebuilt; every crushed dream has been renewed; every crooked way has been made straight; every sunset of despair has been turned into a sunrise of hope!" ~ Tennent

Knees Hit the Floor

"...something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor." ~ Marianne Williamson

Holy Living

"To know Christ is the way to grow in holiness. Christianity is not a religion of rules. It is the religion of the divine example. Try to follow the blessed steps of the most holy life. Take His advice. Ask yourself, in the moment of perplexity or temptation, what would He do if He were here? Nothing else will so surely lead us into the way of holy living." ~ George Hodges

Better to Be Hated

“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.” ~ André Paul Guillaume Gide

Seek & Find

"Some go to church to be entertained and others go to worship. Some expect the pastor to “feed” them while others share in responsibility for the worship experience. When we seek God, we will find God." ~ Ried

Show that You Care

"Let God’s love shine through you today in an authentic way. It’s not being cheesy, joking, or faking happiness. Be real. Look at people not through them. Show that you care." ~ C. Hosher

God's Megaphone

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world." ~ C. S. Lewis

Entire Sanctification

"The baptism with the Holy Spirit, therefore, must be considered under a two full aspect; first, as a death to the carnal nature; and second, as the fullness of the life in the spirit. Since entire sanctification is affected by the baptism with the Spirit, it likewise has a twofold aspect – the cleansing from sin and full development to God." ~ H. Orton Wiley

Calling You...

"No devotion to Christ is ever wasted. No lover of Christ is ultimately rejected. Everybody's redemption begins in somebody else. What is he calling you to do?" ~ Dennis Kinlaw

Enemy of Gratitude

"Self-centeredness is the enemy of gratitude. The truth is, we are not the center of our universe." ~ David Busic

...Changes Everything...

"A disciplined, daily walk with Christ changes everything." ~ Graves

Be Calm

“Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.” ~ George Herbert

Jesus Cared!

"Jesus cared! He went out of his way to find hurting people." ~ J. K. Warrick

Heart Holiness

To know the precious grace of heart holiness is to feel our utter dependence on Christ, in a moment-by-moment relation of faith and heart obedience." ~ William  Greathouse

Tangible Help

"Selfless acts of reaching out to those in need in tangible ways are hugely impactful." ~ David Busic 

Don't Give Up

"You may become weary when facing resistance to change, but please do not give up. We need your fresh eyes, your fresh questions, and your fresh insights." ~ Jerry Porter 

He Won't Let Go

"Our troubles do not repel God; they draw Him to us. They are opportunities for us to come face to face with the living God and to be reminded that He is bound to us and will not let go." ~ David Busic

Rolled Up Sleeves

"Jesus became involved in the world to which he came. He was not a tourist just passing through or simply looking things over. Jesus rolled up his sleeves and got involved." J. K. Warrick

Sanctification Removes Sin

"Sanctification removes nothing from our essential human nature but sin. We are not cleansed from self-consciousness, but self-centeredness, not from self-respect, but self rule." ~ Dr. Nelson Perdue

Redemption is from God

"A man cannot redeem himself; Redemption is God's "bit," it is absolutely finished and complete; its reference to individual men is a question of their individual action. A distinction must always be made between the revelation of Redemption and the conscious experience of salvation in a man's life." ~ Oswald Chambers

Cart Before the Horse

"It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They are teaching purity of motives, desires, and actions to old, deceitful hearts! No wonder we have ended up such moral failures, in spite of our vaunted knowledge and psychological approaches." ~ Billy Graham

Day by Day

"Holiness is the everyday business of every Christian. It evidences itself in the decisions we make and the things we do, hour by hour, day by day." ~ Chuck Colson

Are You Prepared?

"Am I prepared to let God grip me by His power and do a work in me that is worthy of Himself? Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for me, and He has to get me into the attitude of mind and spirit where at any cost I will let Him sanctify me wholly." ~ Oswald Chambers

Holy Living

"To know Christ is the way to grow in holiness. Christianity is not a religion of rules. It is the religion of the divine example. Try to follow the blessed steps of the most holy life. Take His advice. Ask yourself, in the moment of perplexity or temptation, what would He do if He were here? Nothing else will so surely lead us into the way of holy living." ~ George Hodges

Don't Miss the Point

"On this rapid mortal journey, if our focus is self, we’ll never be satisfied. Enough is never enough. Never enough power, prestige, things, or money will satisfy. At some point, we reach the point of realizing we missed the point." ~ B. Brown

Holiness Is...

"Holiness is cleansing. It is that will of the Father, that provision of the Son, that act of the Holy Spirit, whereby the believer's heart, that is, his motive, his affections, his will – his entire nature, is cleansed from the pollution and the tendency to sin." ~ H. Orton Wiley

Baptism with the Holy Spirit

"The baptism with the Holy Spirit, therefore, must be considered under a two full aspect; first, as a death to the carnal nature; and second, as the fullness of the life in the spirit. Since entire sanctification is affected by the baptism with the Spirit, it likewise has a twofold aspect – the cleansing from sin and full development to God." ~ H. Orton Wiley

Intimacy with God

"Our world does not need to hear more people talk about God or even about Jesus if those people do not have a lifestyle that reinforces every word they utter. The interesting thing is that the closer we walk in intimacy with God, the less we have to say. Our very lives become a bold and beautiful testimony to the purity, the freedom, and the beauty of the Lord Jesus." ~ Dennis F. Kinlaw

Prayer Is...

"Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that he should be able to make use of us." ~ William Barclay

God of this World

“Money is the “god of this world,” and it empowers millions of people to enjoy life by living on substitutes. With money, they can buy entertainment, but they can’t buy joy. They can go to the drugstore and buy sleep, but they can’t buy peace. Their money will attract lots of acquaintances but very few real friends. Wealth gains them admiration and envy but not love. It buys the best in medical services, but it can’t buy health.” ~ Warren W. Wiersbe

Temptation

"The temptation of the age is to look good without being good." ~ Brennan Manning

True Test

"The true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately . . . Prayer frees us to be controlled by God." ~  Richard Foster

Most Terrible Poverty

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved." ~ Mother Teresa

The Way...

"If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He himself is the way." ~ Thomas Aquinas