Made for...

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probably explanation is that I was made for another world. ~ C.S. Lewis

A Radical Life

A radical life for Christ is not always visible to outside eyes. ~ Sally Clarkson

The Choice...

We can hug our hurts and make a shrine out of our sorrows or we can offer them to God as a sacrifice of praise. The choice is ours. ~ Richard Exley

Accountability...

We may think we don’t need accountability, but everyone needs it, especially those who claim to be Christ’s followers. We guard ourselves with the help of one another, not in judgment, but in mindful care. ~ M. E. Anderson

Church Hopping?

Sometimes changing to another church is the right thing to do. But perpetual church hopping helps no one. At some point, realize that no church is perfect largely due to the fact that the person reflected in the mirror isn’t perfect.  ~ M. Ellen

Prayer Life...

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few prayers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere. 

~ Leonard Ravenhill

Sanctification...

By sanctification the Son of God is formed in me, then I have to transform my natural life into a spiritual life by obedience to Him. God educates us down to the scruple. When He begins to check, do not confer with flesh and blood, cleanse yourself at once. Keep yourself cleansed in your daily walk. - Oswald Chambers

When God Interrupts Our Lives...

When God interrupts our lives with His dream, it can be hard for us to want to step forward to embrace that calling because we see the sacrifice instead of the reward. ~ Tiffany Smiling

Meaning...

I do not see how it would be possible to find a meaningful life in a meaningless universe. The only purpose that is worthy of life is something bigger than life itself. It is more than maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain for a few years on earth. The only purpose worthy of life is to be part of a grander vision – the redemption of creation, the pursuit of justice, becoming a saint. ~ John Ortberg

God Himself...

Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair believe only in the idea of God and not in God himself. 

~ Madeleine L’Engle

Stick with Love...

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Power to Forgive...Love...

He who is devoid the power to forgive is devoid the power to love.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr. 

But God...

We may cry out with longing and despair to the cold uncaring universe … but we will only hear silence in return. The universe is mute, devoid of all power to either affirm or deny the worth we place on either ourselves or on others. So be it. We do not matter to the universe. ~ Kenneth A. Taylor

BUT God demonstrated His own love for us in 

this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for

us. ~ Romans 5:8 (NIV)

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. ~ 1 John 3:1 (NIV)

Truest Life

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Do Something...

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. ~ Edward Everett Hale

Serve Faithfully

To serve the public faithfully, and at the same time please it entirely, is impracticable. 

~ Benjamin Franklin

Love Them...

If you judge people, you have not time to love them. 

~ Mother Teresa

You Are a Bible...

I am my neighbor’s Bible:

He reads me when we meet,

Today he reads me in my house,

Tomorrow in the street;

He may be relative or friend,

Or slight acquaintance be;

He may not even know my name,

Yet he is reading me.

~ Anonymous

The Way to Heaven...

I want to know one thing: The way to Heaven.

How to land safe on that happy shore.

God Himself has condescended to teach the way.

For this very end He came from Heaven.

He hath written it down in a Book;

Oh, give me that Book.

At any price, give me the Book of God.

I have it. Here is knowledge enough for me.

Let me be a man of one Book.

~ John Wesley

Greatest Tragedies of Life...

One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts. When, in disgust or discouragement, we allow ourselves to reach depressive levels of despair because of our demeaning self-appraisal, it is a sad day for us and a sad day in the eyes of God. For us to conclude that we have no gifts when we judge ourselves by stature, intelligence, grade-point average, wealth, power, position, or external appearance is not only unfair but unreasonable. ~ Marvin J. Ashton

Word of God...

The Word of God is deeper than a flannel graph. It demands the closest possible scrutiny. It calls for the most excellent scholarship. It makes the finest point of technical analysis worth the effort. The yield of such effort is truth.

~ R.C. Sproul

Say It...

Say what you want to say when you have the feeling and the chance. My deepest regrets are the things I did not do, the opportunities missed and the things unsaid. 

~ Jim Keller

Daily Study...

Great has been the blessing from consecutive, diligent, daily study. I look upon it as a lost day when I’ve not had a good time over the Word of God. ~ George Mueller

His Megaphone...

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

Hold On, Pain Ends.

God's Love...

We don’t earn God’s love by what we do, he has already lavished us for who we ARE. ~ Rebekah Lyons

Don't Live in Fear...

Prayer...

Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying. ~  Paul E. Billheimer

Security...

JOY...

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy. ~ Tim Hansel

Love for HIM

Live Well...

Vanity it is, to wish to live long, and to be careless to live well. 
~ Thomas A  Kempis

BE the CHURCH

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow...

We should live as though Jesus came yesterday – rose today – and will come back tomorrow. ~ Martin Luther

God Walks with Us...

Prayer...

Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces. 

~  S.D. Gordon

Rest...

If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath – our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us. ~ Wayne Muller

Worship God Seven Days A Week...

Guard Your Moments...

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. 
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A New Thing...

Overcome...

The very difficulties we want to escape can be overcome only when we face them head-on. ~ Sally Clarkson

Make Room...

Make room for that which is capable of rejoicing, enlarging or calming the heart. 

~ Gerhardt Tersteegen

Significant Changes

The Great Separator

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth. 
~ John C. Maxwell

Discouragement...

Reading Your Bible Daily...

A New Year...