...I fear...

"It is not persecution of the church in China that I fear. The church has always been able to weather persecution. My fear is love of money in the church." ~ Chinese pastor

Fasting...

"Is fasting ever a bribe to get God to pay more attention to the petitions ? No, a thousand times no. It is simply a way to make clear that we sufficiently reverence the amazing opportunity to ask help from the everlasting God, the Creator of the universe, to choose to put everything else aside and concentrate on worshiping, asking forgiveness, and making our requests known-considering His help more important than anything we could do ourselves in our own strength and with our own ideas." ~ Edith Schaeffer

Read Your Bible

‎"Begin reading your Bible this very day. The way to do a thing is to do it, and the way to read the Bible is actually to read it. It is not meaning, or wishing, or resolving, or intending, or thinking about it; that will not advance you one step. You must positively read." ~ J.C. Ryle

Purpose of Tithing

"The purpose of tithing is to secure not the tithe but the tither, not the gift but the giver, not the possession but the possessor, not your money but you for God." ~ Anonymous

Battle of Life

"Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well." ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Fasting Is...

"We tend to think of fasting as going without food. But we can fast from anything. If we love music and decide to miss a concert in order to spend time with God, that is fasting. It is helpful to think of the parallel of human friendship. When friends need to be together, they will cancel all other activities in order to make that possible. There's nothing m*gical about fasting. It's just one way of telling God that your priority at that moment is to be alone with him, sorting out whatever is necessary, and you have cancelled the meal, party, concert, or whatever else you had planned to do in order to fulfil that priority." ~ James I (J. I.) Packer

Do What You Want...

"In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking." ~ John Lubbock

Three Conversions

"There are three conversions necessary: the conversion of the heart, mind, and the purse." ~ Martin Luther

Forgiveness Is...

"Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuff of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness." ~ Corrie Ten Boom (1892-1983)

Greatest Virtues...

‎"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained." ~ Winston Churchill

A Paradox

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love." ~ Mother Teresa

Be Joyfully Generous

Even if all we have is a little, the Lord desires us to be joyfully generous, so that He will have for His church an abundance for every good work. Let us not be selfish or deceived by money. In a real sense, money is not a blessing; it's a test. ~ Francis Frangipane

Begin...

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." ~ Mother Teresa

Which Way?

"If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, for he is himself the way." ~ Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)