Decision Making

"Lord, show me how to decide and give me such trust in you that I may receive you guidance and in calmness may act upon it." ~ Malcolm Playfoot

Love Your Neighbor

We have not yet loved our neighbor with the kind of love that is a precept to the extent of laying down our life for him…. This is a new precept; it is a new way; it is the new human we are supposed to become. I always comfort myself by saying that Christianity is only two days old (a thousand years are as one day in the sight of God) and so it is only a couple of days that are past and now it is about time we began to take these things literally, to begin tomorrow morning and say, “Now I have begun.” 
~ Dorothy Day

Wonderful Creation

"God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners." ~ Soren Kierkegaard

The Only Cohesive Power in the World

"Only God can supply that love that we must have for our fellowman. We will never build brotherhood of man upon earth until we are believers in Christ Jesus. The only true cohesive power in the world is Christ. He alone can bind human hearts together in genuine love." ~ Billy Graham

Why Me?

"We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground." ~ Brennan Manning

One Little Lie...

“One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.” ~ Marvin J. Ashton

Methods or Men?

"The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men…Men of prayer.” ~ E. M. Bounds

No Man Is an Island

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a cloud be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee." 
~  John Donne

Gift Giving Spree

"The giving of gifts is not something man invented. God started the giving spree when he gave a gift beyond words, the unspeakable gift of His Son." ~ Robert Flatt

Mystery of the Christian Life

"This is the mystery of the Christian life, to receive a new self, which depends not on what we can achieve but on what we are willing to receive." ~ Esther de Waal

Only One of You

"There is vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique…. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open." ~ Martha Graham

Root of Sin

"The root of sin in each of our hearts is extremely deep, and this is the basic cause of the world’s problems; only the fire of the Lord can burn it out. This is precisely what Christ came to do. He didn't come to treat symptoms. He came to get at the very heart of man’s disease." ~ Billy Graham

Faults and Imperfections

“Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own.” ~ Thomas à Kempis

Ministry of Memory

"It is a good thing for a man to remember his past sins when that memory brings a loathing for evil. It is still better when the memory brings gratitude for the cleansing, and a deeper dependence upon God for power to live a holy life. This ministry of memory is one of the blessed ways that the Holy Spirit works in us." ~ A.F. Harper (Holiness and High Country)