Quotes

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“One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. ”

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture. ”

- Brian McLaren

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“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.”

- Thomas Huxley

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Great generals, wise words

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“Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set on fire.”

- George Matthew Adams

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“If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for.”

- C.H. Spurgeon

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“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.”

- Ben Williams

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“Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its saltness, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another. ”

- Mark 9:50 (Revised Standard Version)

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“The difference between an itch and an allergy is about one hundred bucks.”

- Jack Benney

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“Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

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“The future is as bright as the promises of God.”

- Adoniran Judson

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“Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.”

- Beca Lewis Allen

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“...Our true worth, value, and identity come not from what the world says, but from complete acceptance by God. In and of ourselves, we'll never be enough; we'll wear ourselves out trying.”

- Nancy Stafford

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“If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's as obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer. I just have to trust Him. ”

- Anne Graham Lotz

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“Lord, make me a crisis man. Let me not be a mile-post on a single road, but make me a fork that men must turn one way or another in facing Christ in me.”

- Jim Elliot

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“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”

- Kahlil Gibran

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“Oh, Father, a brand-new year! What a time to make my deepest, even secret, requests known to You. ”

- Marion Bond West, author

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“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.”

- Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauerr

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“You miss 100 percent of all the shots you never take.”

- Wayne Gretzky (submitted by nsteiger)

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“I am justified and acceptable to God even though there are in me sin, unrighteousness, and fear of death.”

- Martin Luther

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“I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the people I read about.”

- Critic Edmond Wilson

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“When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. ”

- David Orr

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Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. John 14:27

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It is of Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

 

Lamentations 3:22

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Faith in a prayer-loving God will make a prayer-loving Christian.

 

Andrew Murray