Saturday...

We focus on Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday, but we forget to pause in the stillness of the days between. Find time today to be present in that place of waiting. There is treasure to be found in the sacred peace that comes as you breathe in that place of quiet surrender. Don’t rush through the space called “Between.” 

~ Katherine J. Walden

The Old Rugged Cross...

Do not paint the cross nor deck it with flowers. Take it for what it is, and you will find it the rugged way to death and life. Let it slay you utterly. ~  A.W. Tozer

The Cross...

Uncomfortable, ugly, bloody, and shameful the cross may be. But it is sufficient. It is everything.

~ Brett McCracken

Jesus Died Praying...

Jesus died praying. His last words were words of prayer. The habit of life was strong in death. It may seem far off; but this event will come to us also. What will our last words be? Who can tell? But would it not be beautiful if our spirit were so steeped in the habit of prayer that the language of prayer came naturally to us at the last? 

~ James Stalker

Prayed Three Times...

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. ~ C.S. Lewis

The Cross...

Jesus welcomes the cross. His love can do no other than drive him to choose the hardest sacrifice. Jesus loves the cross because he sees the many for whom it will become the tree of life – the many who will find strength and salvation at its foot. ~ Joseph Kuhnel

The Cross...

Uncomfortable, ugly, bloody, and shameful the cross may be. But it is sufficient. It is everything.

~ Brett McCracken

Unfinished Autobiography

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world – God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator. ~ Fulton Oursler

The Cross...

Jesus welcomes the cross. His love can do no other than drive him to choose the hardest sacrifice. Jesus loves the cross because he sees the many for whom it will become the tree of life – the many who will find strength and salvation at its foot. ~ Joseph Kuhnel

Holy Life...

The world looks for spectacular displays. God uses a holy life.

~ Henry Blackaby

Jesus Crucified...

The one thing we have to do is exhibit Jesus Christ crucified.

~ Oswald Chambers

It's About the Cross

So the main question is not, which humans brought about the death of Jesus but, What did the death of Jesus bring about for humans - including Jews and Muslims and Buddhists and Hindus and nonreligious secularists - and all people everywhere? When it is all said and done, the most crucial question is: Why? Why did Christ suffer and die? Not why in the sense of cause, but why in the sense of purpose? 

~ John Piper

He Is Compassion...

You may call God love; you may call God goodness; but the best name for God is compassion. ~ Meister Eckhart

He Makes Peace...

When our Lord speaks peace, He makes peace.....Have I ever received what Jesus speaks? 

~ Oswald Chambers

One Body...

What demands the Spirit and requires a broken body and shed blood is for people from different generations, different ethnicities, different cultures, different tastes, different political perspectives, and different social standings to gather around the Table of the Lord and become one body. ~ Scott Daniels

Unless HE Shows Up...

Are we willing to do what we must have God for, that unless He shows up, it can't be done?  

~ T. Austin-Sparks

Meaning of the Cross

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning. 

~ Oswald Chambers

Liberty and Lawlessness

Liberty and lawlessness. Who knew that the latter could successfully masquerade as the former?

~ Alicia Britt Chole

Banquet...

God's preparing for a banquet. Make sure you're preparing for a banquet too.

~ Chris Tiegreen

Lenten Practices...

Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is to attain to perfect life, all truth and undying ecstatic love – which is the definition of God. In pursuing that goal we find happiness. Pleasure is not the purpose of anything; pleasure is a by-product resulting from doing something that is good. One of the best ways to get happiness and pleasure out of life is to ask ourselves, 'How can I please God?' and, 'Why am I not better?' It is the pleasure-seeker who is bored, for all pleasures diminish with repetition. ~ Fulton J. Sheen

Ending...Beginning

Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. 

~ Watchman Nee

What You Might Have Been...

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

~ George Eliot

In a Box...

I'm a man seeking a box, serving a God who constantly proves that He doesn't fit in one.

~ Tim Walker

Victors... Not Victims

God wants us to be victors, not victims.... to overcome, not to be overwhelmed.

~ William Arthur Ward

Measure of a Man

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of a man. 

~ Roy L. Smith

Perfect Relation to HIM

I am called to live in perfect relation to God so that my life produces a longing after God in other lives, not admiration for myself. ~ Oswald Chambers

Key to Contentment

The key to contentment is to refuse to define your life by your present circumstances. ~ Chris Tiegreen

He Rose...

It was inevitable that Jesus Christ should be crucified. It was also inevitable that He should rise again. ~ H. R. L. Sheppar

Two Obedience...

True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences. ~ A.W. Tozer

Something that Shined...

Judas gave Jesus up for something that shined. 

~ Alicia Britt Chole

Opposite of Love...

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. 

~ Elie Wiesel

Come Alive...

Don't ask what the world needs.

Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.

Because what the world needs 

is people who have come alive.

~ Howard Thurman

Peace...

When the Church has failed at peace, the Church has failed at the Christian faith.

~ Chris Tiegreen

Can't Take the Place

No amount of activity for God will ever take the place of a heart that is right with Him.

~ Henry Blackaby

Life and Death...

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. 

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Hope...

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

~ G.K. Chesterton

Heart of Jesus...

I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of Jesus.

~ Margaret Alacoque

The Key...

Jesus Christ is the key which unlocks the door of the prison cell of our own making.

~ Kenneth Pillar