Grace is when God gives us what we don't deserve and mercy is when God doesn't give us what we do deserve.
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Tuesday October 7, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for October 7 2008
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Christian Wisdom for October 6 2008
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ""I love you.""
--Billy Graham
Sunday October 5, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for October 5 2008
You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men.
--Matthew 5:13 (Revised Standard Version)
Saturday October 4, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for October 4 2008
We need the spirit of Christ, without whom all our works are only worthy of condemnation.
--Martin Luther
Friday October 3, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for October 3 2008
Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ.
--Blaise Pascal
Thursday October 2, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for October 2 2008
He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.--John 7:18 (Revised Standard Version)...
Wednesday October 1, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for October 1 2008
If God is your love and your purpose, the chief aim of your heart, it is all you need in this life...Such a blind shot with the sharp dart of longing will never miss its mark, which is God.--The Cloud...
Tuesday September 30, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 30 2008
God examines both rich and poor, not according to their lands and houses, but according to the riches of their hearts.--Augustine of Hippo...
Monday September 29, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 29 2008
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.--St. Peter Julian Eymard...
Sunday September 28, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 28 2008
Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea.--Mark 9:42...
Saturday September 27, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 27 2008
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.--Blessed Julian of Norwich...
Friday September 26, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 26 2008
If we’re not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ’s command.--Evan Burrows, referring to the Salvation Army...
Thursday September 25, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 25 2008
The Christian message is juxtaposed between crowns and crosses.--T.D. Jakes...
Wednesday September 24, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 24 2008
The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came...Anticipate your battles; fight them...
Tuesday September 23, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 23 2008
Find satisfaction in Him who made you, and only then find satisfaction in yourself as a part of His creation.--Augustine of Hippo...
Monday September 22, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 22 2008
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering...The love of God did not protect His own Son...He will not necessarily protect us--not from anything it takes to make...
Sunday September 21, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 21 2008
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.--Matthew 6:34 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday September 20, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 20 2008
If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.--Phillips Brooks...
Friday September 19, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 19 2008
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.--John Ruskin...
Thursday September 18, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 18 2008
Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.--Max Lucado...
Wednesday September 17, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 17 2008
The gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.--D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones...
Tuesday September 16, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 16 2008
Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.--Billy Graham...
Monday September 15, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 15 2008
Faith seeks understanding. I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand.--St. Anselm of Canterbury...
Sunday September 14, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 14 2008
My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me; if any man's will is to do his will, he shall know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.--John 7:16-19...
Saturday September 13, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 13 2008
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.--William Hazlitt...
Friday September 12, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 12 2008
The will of God will never take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.--Unknown...
Thursday September 11, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 11 2008
Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.--Luke 6:27...
Wednesday September 10, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 10 2008
The devil sees nothing more abominable than a truly humble Christian, for that Christian is just the opposite of the devil’s own image.--Hans Nielsen Hauge...
Tuesday September 9, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 9 2008
Forever at the door I gave my heart and soul. My fortune, too. I've no flock anymore, no other work in view. My occupation: love. It's all I do.--St. John of the Cross...
Monday September 8, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 8 2008
If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.--C.H. Spurgeon...
Sunday September 7, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 7 2008
Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.--Luke 23:43 (Revised Standard Version...
Saturday September 6, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 6 2008
God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.--Simone Weil...
Friday September 5, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 5 2008
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.--Joseph Cardinal Bernardin...
Thursday September 4, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 4 2008
No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, ""Because He did, I can forgive you.""--Billy...
Wednesday September 3, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 3 2008
Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love...
Tuesday September 2, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 2 2008
Complete happiness is knowing God.--John Calvin...
Monday September 1, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for September 1 2008
Make sure the thing you’re living for is worth dying for.--Charles Mayes...
Sunday August 31, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 31 2008
Your faith has saved you; go in peace.--Luke 7:50 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday August 30, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 30 2008
What is most characteristically human about us is the tension between the desire to be ""free""--self-identifying and self-choosing--and to be ""related"" to love and be loved.--Paul Tillich...
Friday August 29, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 29 2008
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.--Dietrich Bonhoeffer...
Thursday August 28, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 28 2008
Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the self sufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his.--A.W. Tozer...
Wednesday August 27, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 27 2008
A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.--Jonathan Edwards...
Tuesday August 26, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 26 2008
Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another’s life, another’s death, I stake my whole eternity.--Horatius Bonar...
Monday August 25, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 25 2008
When you see God’s hands in everything, it is easy to leave everything in God’s hands.--Unknown...
Sunday August 24, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 24 2008
Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add...
Saturday August 23, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 23 2008
I am justified and acceptable to God even though there are in me sin, unrighteousness, and fear of death.--Martin Luther...
Friday August 22, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 22 2008
If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or...
Thursday August 21, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 21 2008
Our Christian experience must agree with the Bible. We will be taught by the Bible and fed by the Bible. But we do not believe in Christ because He is in the Bible: we believe in the Bible because Christ...
Wednesday August 20, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 20 2008
Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.--D.L. Moody...
Tuesday August 19, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 19 2008
If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it’s not the gospel you believe, but yourself.--Augustine of Hippo...
Monday August 18, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 18 2008
Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt of every situation you believe to be the will of God.--Jim Elliot...
Sunday August 17, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 17 2008
Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation.--Mark 8:13 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday August 16, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 16 2008
There is nothing that is more dangerous to you own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness that that you should be content to remain as you are.--F. Fenelon...
Friday August 15, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 15 2008
We must remember that God loved us first, and that our religion is truly a love affair between God and us, us and God; it is not merely a system of morals and dogmas.--Catherine Doherty...
Thursday August 14, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 14 2008
Measure not God’s love and favor by your own feelings. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation...
Wednesday August 13, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 13 2008
Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.--Hebrews 4:14 (Revised Standard Version)...
Tuesday August 12, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 12 2008
Hearts on earth say in the course of a joyful experience, ‘I don’t want this to ever end.’ The hearts of those in heaven say, ‘I want this to go on forever.’ And it will. There is no better news...
Monday August 11, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 11 2008
Faith is not the holding of correct doctrines, but personal fellowship with the Living God.--William Temple...
Sunday August 10, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 10 2008
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with...
Saturday August 9, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 9 2008
Our problems are opportunities to discover God’s solutions.--Unknown...
Thursday August 7, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 7 2008
Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise-- then you will discover the fullness of your life.--Brother David Steindl-Rast...
Wednesday August 6, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 6 2008
Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.--Otto Von Bismarck...
Tuesday August 5, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 5 2008
True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction--toward common projects, goals- above all, towards a common Lord.--C.S. Lewis...
Monday August 4, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 4 2008
Go anywhere to preach the gospel.--Gordon Olson...
Sunday August 3, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 3 2008
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.--Matthew 5:6 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday August 2, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 2 2008
If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral.--Samuel P. Ginder...
Friday August 1, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Auguat 1 2008
Strength, rest, guidance, grace, help, sympathy, love--all from God to us! What a list of blessings!--E. Stenbock...
Thursday July 31, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 31 2008
Get in touch with who you are. Lead with your own unique style. Be yourself and let God use you.--Rick Warren...
Wednesday July 30, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 30 2008
God doesn’t just give us grace. He gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace.--Joni Eareckson Tada...
Tuesday July 29, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 29 2008
The gospel alone is sufficient to rule the lives of Christians everywhere...any additional rules made to govern men's conduct added nothing to the perfection already found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.--John Wycliffe...
Monday July 28, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 28 2008
Pain is never permanent.--St. Teresa of Avila...
Sunday July 27, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 27 2008
Why are you afraid? Have you no faith?--Mark 4:40 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday July 26, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 26 2008
Worship is the intentional attitudes and actions of focusing on God...It grows out of the foundational motive of deep and wonder-based gratitude to God for His salvaging and sustaining us.--Byron Spradlin...
Friday July 25, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 25 2008
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.--John Stott...
Thursday July 24, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 24 2008
The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking...
Wednesday July 23, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 23 2008
And I have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will heed my voice. So there shall be one flock, one shepherd.--John 10:16...
Tuesday July 22, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 22 2008
Nothing ousts the sense of God’s presence so thoroughly as the soul’s dialogues with itself-when there are grumblings, grievances, etc.--Friedrich von Hugel...
Monday July 21, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 21 2008
We are not built for ourselves, but for God.--Oswald Chambers...
Sunday July 20, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 20 2008
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.--Matthew 5:3 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday July 19, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 19 2008
Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.--Elton Trueblood...
Friday July 18, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 18 2008
If you are looking for painless ways to grow toward each other and toward maturity, call off the search.--J. Grant Howard...
Thursday July 17, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 17 2008
Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace.--C.H. Spurgeon...
Wednesday July 16, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 16 2008
There’s no human power that can replace the power of Spirit.--Lewi Pethrus...
Tuesday July 15, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 15 2008
Tomorrow’s history has already been written. At the name of Jesus every knee must bow.--E. Kauffman...
Monday July 14, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 14 2008
God commands you to pray, but he forbids you to worry.--St. John Vianney...
Sunday July 13, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 13 2008
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.--John 3:3 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday July 12, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 12 2008
God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man--suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized,...
Friday July 11, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 11 2008
Experience has taught me that the Shepherd is far more willing to show his sheep the path than the sheep are to follow. He is endlessly merciful, patient, tender, and loving.--Elisabeth Elliot...
Thursday July 10, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 10 2008
Is it not true that when we have God we have everything?--St. Peter Julian Eymard...
Wednesday July 9, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 9 2008
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.--Leonard Ravenhill...
Tuesday July 8, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 8 2008
Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.--Thomas Merton...
Monday July 7, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 7 2008
It is impossible for a person not to be puffed up by his good works unless he has first been deflated and destroyed by suffering and evil to the point that he knows that he is worthless and that his...
Sunday July 6, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 6 2008
Come near to God and He will come near to you.--James 4:8...
Saturday July 5, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 5 2008
Those who try to hang on when God is trying to move on will always be miserable.--Joyce Meyer...
Thursday July 3, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 3 2008
Our experience of God’s unconditional love must be shaped by the Scriptures. God’s written Word must take hold of us…The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.--Brennan Manning, ""The Ragamuffin Gospel""...
Wednesday July 2, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 2 2008
The spontaneous jollity of the carefree extrovert comes to be equated with healthy Christian living, and jolly extroverts in our churches are encouraged to become complacent in carnality.--J.I. Packer...
Tuesday July 1, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for July 1 2008
He departed from our sight, so that we should turn to our hearts and find him there.--St. Augustine...
Monday June 30, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 30 2008
To see God is the promised goal of all our actions and the promised height of all our joys.--Augustine of Hippo...
Sunday June 29, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 29 2008
Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple.--Luke 14:27 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday June 28, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 28 2008
We can never hear the warning often enough. The tongue (or typing finger) may be small, but oh so deadly when not under the sanctifying grace of God.--Lin Pearson...
Friday June 27, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 27 2008
Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself but because it contradicts them.--Unknown...
Thursday June 26, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 26 2008
The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.--Blaise Pascal...
Wednesday June 25, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 25 2008
Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.--St. John Chrysostom...
Tuesday June 24, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 24 2008
A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.--Francois Fenelon...
Monday June 23, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 23 2008
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.--Marian Wright Edelman...
Sunday June 22, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 22 2008
The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.--Luke 10:2...
Saturday June 21, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 21 2008
If we make a quietness within ourselves, if we silence all desire and opinions and if with love, without formulating any words, we bind our whole soul to think ""Thy will be done,"" the thing which after that we feel...
Friday June 20, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 20 2008
Christ is a jewel of more worth than a thousand worlds, as all know who have him. Get him, and get all; miss him and miss all.--Thomas Brooks...
Thursday June 19, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 19 2008
Inside the will of God there is no failure. Outside the will of God there is no success.--Bernard Edinger...
Wednesday June 18, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 18 2008
You don't have to be alone in your hurt! Comfort is yours. Joy is an option. And it's all been made possible by your Savior.--Joni Eareckson Tada...
Tuesday June 17, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 17 2008
The future is as bright as the promises of God.--Adoniran Judson...
Monday June 16, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 16 2008
God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him. He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it...
Sunday June 15, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 15 2008
For God is not so unjust as to overlook your work and the love which you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.--Hebrews 6:10 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday June 14, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 14 2008
Some people complain because God put thorns on roses, while others praise Him for putting roses among thorns.--Unknown...
Friday June 13, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 13 2008
A man-pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man’s mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.--Richard Baxter...
Thursday June 12, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 12 2008
Forgiveness creates an obligation for which there are no exceptions allowed.--Giovanni Papini, ""The Life of Christ""...
Wednesday June 11, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 11 2008
The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.--J.I. Packer...
Tuesday June 10, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 10 2008
The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus.--George MacDonald...
Monday June 9, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 9 2008
The opposite of joy is not sorrow. It is unbelief.--Leslie Weatherhead...
Sunday June 8, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 8 2008
The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.--Matthew 13:44...
Saturday June 7, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 7 2008
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.--Miguel de...
Friday June 6, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 6 2008
Each of us may be sure that if God sends us on stony paths He will provide us with strong shoes, and He will not send us out on any journey for which He does not equip us well.--Alexander MacLaren...
Thursday June 5, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 5 2008
As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!--David Brainerd...
Wednesday June 4, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 4 2008
The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God…It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for...
Tuesday June 3, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 3 2008
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.--Jonathan Edwards...
Monday June 2, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 2 2008
Do what good you can, and do it solely for God’s glory, as free from it yourself as though you did not exist. Ask nothing whatever in return. Done in this way, your works are spiritual and godly.--Meister Eckhart...
Sunday June 1, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for June 1 2008
And whoever gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.--Matthew 10:42 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday May 31, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 31 2008
Unless humility precede, accompany, and follow all the good we accomplish, unless we keep our eyes fixed on it, pride will snatch everything right out of our hands.--Augustine of Hippo...
Friday May 30, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 30 2008
The word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress.--Billy Graham...
Thursday May 29, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 29 2008
Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.--Charles Wesley...
Wednesday May 28, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 28 2008
Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.--A.W. Tozer...
Tuesday May 27, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 27 2008
We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence...
Monday May 26, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 26 2008
Our father's God, to thee. Author of liberty. To thee we sing. Long may our land be bright. With freedom's holy light. Protect us by thy might. Great God our King.--The Rev. Samuel Francis Smith...
Sunday May 25, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 25 2008
Whoever does the will of God is my brother, and sister, and mother.--Mark 3:35 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday May 24, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 24 2008
Cast yourself in the arms of God and be very sure that if He wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength.--St. Philip Neri...
Friday May 23, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 23 2008
When you are arguing against Him, you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.--C.S. Lewis...
Thursday May 22, 2008
Categories: Christian Wisdom
Christian Wisdom for May 22 2008
Joy can only be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.--Leonard Tolstoy...
Wednesday May 21, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 21 2008
He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.--Thomas Fuller...
Tuesday May 20, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 20 2008
We cannot but admit that not even the least thing takes place unless it is ordered by God. For who have ever been so concerned and curious as to find out how much hair he has on his head? There...
Monday May 19, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 19 2008
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.--John Ciardi...
Sunday May 18, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 18 2008
The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.--Matthew 13:33 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday May 17, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 17 2008
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.--Saint Augustine of Hippo...
Friday May 16, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 16 2008
Remember, sinner, it is not your hold of Christ that saves you -- it is Christ.--C.H. Spurgeon...
Thursday May 15, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 15 2008
It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.--Richard Whately...
Wednesday May 14, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 14 2008
Simplicity towards God consists in seeking him only in all our actions.--St. Jane Frances de Chantal...
Tuesday May 13, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 13 2008
When we fail to wait prayerfully for God’s guidance and strength, we are saying with our actions if not our lips, that we do not need him.--Charles Hummel...
Monday May 12, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 12 2008
We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself...That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed.--C.S. Lewis, ""Mere Christianity""...
Sunday May 11, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 11 2008
All my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.--Ezekiel 3:10b (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday May 10, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 10 2008
God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.--Max Lucado...
Friday May 9, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 9 2008
Sometimes the Lord rides out the storm with us and other times He calms the restless sea around us. Most of all, He calms the storm inside us in our deepest inner soul.--Lloyd John Ogilvie...
Thursday May 8, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 8 2008
I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.--Hudson Taylor...
Wednesday May 7, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 7 2008
My only hope is that I shall be clothed with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.--M. Lloyd-Jones...
Tuesday May 6, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 6 2008
It is such a folly to pass one's time fretting, instead of resting quietly on the heart of Jesus.--St. Therese of Lisieux...
Monday May 5, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 5 2008
The care of another--even material, bodily care--is spiritual in essence. Bread for myself is a material question; bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.--Jacques Maritain...
Sunday May 4, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 4 2008
Follow me and I will make you become fishers of men.--Mark 1:17...
Saturday May 3, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 3 2008
A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.--Stephen Charnock...
Friday May 2, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 2 2008
Beauty is the gift of God.--Aristotle...
Thursday May 1, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for May 1 2008
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.--Evelyn Underhill...
Wednesday April 30, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 30 2008
There is something inexpressively pleasing to a justified mind to know that God has all the honor in our salvation...to know that God’s honor is not violated, but on the contrary, shines more illustrious; to know that God’s law is...
Tuesday April 29, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 29 2008
Since I began to love, love has never forsaken me. It has ever grown to its own fullness within my innermost heart.--St. Catherine of Genoa...
Monday April 28, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 28 2008
Grace keeps us from worrying because worry deals with the past, while grace deals with the present and future.--Joyce Meyer...
Sunday April 27, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 27 2008
Everything is permissible’--but not everything is beneficial. 'Everything is permissible'--but not everything is constructive.--1 Corinthians 10:23...
Saturday April 26, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 26 2008
He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He worked in a carpentry shop until he was thirty, and then for three years he was an itinerant preacher.--Unknown...
Friday April 25, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 25 2008
The gospel is a doctrine that teaches a far higher matter than the wisdom, righteousness, and religion of the world; it teaches free forgiveness of sins through Christ.--Martin Luther...
Thursday April 24, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 24 2008
As we wait, we can fix our eyes on Jesus as a companion who empathizes with our suffering and a Savior who is working behind the scenes. Difficult circumstances seem to increase our ability to experience intimacy with Christ.--Ruthann Ridley...
Wednesday April 23, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 23 2008
The great secret of a life of faith is… to hang upon Jesus daily; to go to Him in every trial; to cast upon Him every burden; to take the infirmity, the corruption, the cross, as it rises, simply and...
Tuesday April 22, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 22 2008
We become truly personal by loving God and by loving other humans...In its deepest sense, love is the life, the energy, of the Creator in us.--Kallistos Ware...
Monday April 21, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 21 2008
If you are to receive your due, you must be punished. What then is done? God has not rendered you due punishment, but bestows upon you unmerited grace. If you wish to be an alien from grace, boast your merits.--Augustine...
Sunday April 20, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 20 2008
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against any one; so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.--Mark 11:25...
Saturday April 19, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 19 2008
Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.--John Calvin...
Friday April 18, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 18 2008
Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.--Thomas Brooks...
Thursday April 17, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 17 2008
Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.--Charles Spurgeon...
Wednesday April 16, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 16 2008
God, having placed good and evil in our power, has given us full freedom of choice; He does not keep back the unwilling, but embraces the willing.--John Chrysoston...
Tuesday April 15, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 15 2008
Let him who cannot be alone, beware of community... Let him who is not in community, beware of being alone.--Dietrich Bonhoeffer...
Monday April 14, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 14 2008
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.--Oswald Chambers...
Sunday April 13, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 13 2008
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your...
Saturday April 12, 2008
Categories: Christian Wisdom
Christian Wisdom for April 12 2008
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our...
Friday April 11, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 11 2008
The beautiful thing about this adventure called faith is that we can count on Him never to lead us astray.--Charles Swindoll...
Thursday April 10, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 10 2008
God is God. Because He is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will, a will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to.--Elisabeth...
Wednesday April 9, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 9 2008
God loves us not because of who we are, but because of who He is.--Unknown...
Tuesday April 8, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 8 2008
If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love.--Amy Carmichael...
Monday April 7, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 7 2008
No founder of any religion has dared to claim for himself one fraction of the assertions made by the Lord Jesus Christ about himself.--Henry J. Heydt...
Sunday April 6, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 6 2008
Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.--Matthew 6:31-34 (Revised Standard...
Saturday April 5, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 5 2008
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those that I do understand.--Mark Twain...
Friday April 4, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 4 2008
I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.--Fidel Castro...
Thursday April 3, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 3 2008
Our prayers lay the track down which God’s power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.--Watchman Nee...
Wednesday April 2, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 2 2008
Works? Works? A man gets to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!--George Whitefield...
Tuesday April 1, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for April 1 2008
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.--Mother Teresa...
Monday March 31, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for March 31 2008
Prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a strong and tranquil soul.--Clement of Alexandria...
Sunday March 30, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for March 30 2008
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...
Saturday March 29, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, March 29, 2008
OUR wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.--John Calvin...
Friday March 28, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, March 28, 2008
The Bible is a harp with a thousand strings...Play on all of them, keeping them in their places in the divine scale, and you will hear heavenly music all the time.--William P. White...
Thursday March 27, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, March 27, 2008
The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies be the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches.--Charles Hodge...
Wednesday March 26, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for March 26 2008
Jesus’ life began in a borrowed stable and ended in a borrowed tomb.--Alfred Plummer...
Tuesday March 25, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for March 25 2008
Rise heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise. Without delays…--George Herbert, stanza from ""Easter""...
Monday March 24, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for March 24 2008
Today is the day of salvation for the world...Christ is risen from the dead: arise with him.--Gregory Nazianzen...
Sunday March 23, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for March 23 2008
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.--Galatians 5:1...
Saturday March 22, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for March 22 2008
If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.--Jean Jacques Rousseau...
Friday March 21, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for March 21 2008
Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.--Luke 23:34 (Revised Standard Version)...
Thursday March 20, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for March 20 2008
God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies.--Hudson Taylor...
Wednesday March 19, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for March 19 2008
Compassion means that if I see my friend and my enemy in equal need, I shall help both equally. Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner, and comfort them and offer them our help....
Monday March 17, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for March 17 2008
May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face And rains fall soft upon your fields And until we meet again. May God hold you...
Sunday March 16, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for March 16 2008
As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.--Psalm 103:12...
Saturday March 15, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for March 15 2008
We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.--Charles Spurgeon...
Friday March 14, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, March 14, 2008
We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God’s holiness is not simply the best we know...
Thursday March 13, 2008
Categories: Christian Wisdom
Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, March 13, 2008
Make the habit to remember God, not only during your prayers, but at every hour and minute of the day, for He is everywhere present.--St. Theophan the Recluse, "What Is the Spiritual Life"...
Wednesday March 12, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, March 12, 2008
If our minds are stayed upon God, His peace will rule the affairs entertained by our minds. If, on the other hand, we allow our minds to dwell on the cares of this world, God's peace will be far from...
Tuesday March 11, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Not only does understanding the gospel of the grace of God provide a proper motive for us to share our faith, it also gives us the proper motive and means to live the Christian life effectively.--David Havard...
Monday March 10, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Monday, March 10, 2008
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
Sunday March 9, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Sunday, March 9, 2008
Unless the LORD builds the house. those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.--Psalm 127:1 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday March 8, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, March 8, 2008
It is easy to criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings, and write furious articles against them in newspapers, or make violent speeches about them on platforms. Any fool can rip and rend a costly garment…--J.C. Ryle...
Friday March 7, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, March 7, 2008
Human freedom and God’s law are not in opposition; on the contrary, they appeal one to the other. The follower of Christ knows that his vocation is the freedom. ‘You were called to freedom brethren’ (Gal 5:13).--John Paul II...
Thursday March 6, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, March 6, 2008
God loves you right where you are but he doesn't want to leave you there.--Max Lucado...
Wednesday March 5, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.--John of the Cross...
Tuesday March 4, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, March 4, 2008
I am not where I need to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.--Joyce Meyer...
Monday March 3, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Monday, March 3, 2008
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.--Albert Einstein...
Sunday March 2, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Sunday, March 2, 2008
It is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.'--Luke 4:8...
Saturday March 1, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, March 1, 2008
It is more important to remember God than it is to remember to breathe.--St. Gregory of Nazianzus...
Friday February 29, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, Febuary 29, 2008
What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not...
Thursday February 28, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, Febuary 28, 2008
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...
Wednesday February 27, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, Febuary 27 2008
As the centuries pass the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.--Kevin Scott Latourette...
Tuesday February 26, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, Febuary 26, 2008
Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man towards the unseen that its become insensible to the barriers of time and space.--Napoleon...
Monday February 25, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Monday, Febuary 25, 2008
The true, living faith, which the Holy Spirit instills into the heart, simply cannot be idle.--Martin Luther...
Sunday February 24, 2008
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Daily Chrisitan Inspiration for Sunday, Febuary 24, 2008
If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out...
Saturday February 23, 2008
Categories: Christian Wisdom
Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, Febuary 23, 2008
In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to see the differences between things; and it is Christ who gives us light.--Mrs. C.T. Whitemell...
Friday February 22, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, Febuary 22 2008
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.--George Washington...
Thursday February 21, 2008
Categories: Christian Wisdom
Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, Febuary 21 2008
Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things...Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first.--Andrew Murray...
Wednesday February 20, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, Febuary 20 2008
The fear of God kills all other fears.--Hugh Black...
Tuesday February 19, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, Febuary 19, 2008
To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one’s life would not make sense if God...
Monday February 18, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Febuary 18 2008
He who shall introduce into pubic affairs the principles of a primitive Christianity, will change the face of the world.--Benjamin Franklin...
Sunday February 17, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Febuary 17 2008
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.--Mark 14:38 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday February 16, 2008
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Christian Wisdom for Febuary 16 2008
Everyone wants to change, but change demands desire and discipline before it becomes delightful. There is always the agony of choice before the promise of change.--Larry Lea...
Friday February 15, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, Febuary 15, 2008
Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.--Thomas a Kempis...
Thursday February 14, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, February 14, 2008
Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can say, 'Of whom shall I be afraid?'--Alexander MacLaren...
Wednesday February 13, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, Febuary 13, 2008
Events make known the will of God.--Unknown...
Tuesday February 12, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, Febuary 12, 2008
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.--Abraham Lincoln...
Monday February 11, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Monday, Febuary 11, 2008
When I vacillated about my decision to serve the Lord my God, it was I who willed, and I who willed not, and nobody else. I was fighting against myself. All you asked is that I cease to want what...
Sunday February 10, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Sunday, Febuary 10, 2008
Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.--Matthew 7:1-2...
Saturday February 9, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, Febuary 9, 2008
It is more serious to lose hope than to sin.--John of Karpathos...
Friday February 8, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, Febuary 8, 2008
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.--St. Francis of Assisi...
Thursday February 7, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, Febuary 7, 2008
Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion.--Brennan Manning, "The Ragamuffin Gospel"...
Wednesday February 6, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, Febuary 6, 2008
Hear me, all of you, and understand: there is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him.--Mark 7:14-15...
Tuesday February 5, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, Febuary 5, 2008
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner!--Max Lucado...
Monday February 4, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Monday, Febuary 4, 2008
The Gospel is good news of mercy to the undeserving. The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.--John Stott...
Sunday February 3, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Sunday, Febuary 3, 2008
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.--Mark 13:31...
Saturday February 2, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, Febuary 2, 2008
Just as darkness retreats before light, so all anger and bitterness disappear for the fragrance of humility.--John Climacus...
Friday February 1, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, Febuary 1, 2008
Let nothing trouble you Let nothing frighten you Everything passes God never changes Patience Obtains all Whoever has God Wants for nothing God alone is enough.--St. Teresa of Avila...
Thursday January 31, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, January 31, 2008
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?--Corrie Ten Boom...
Wednesday January 30, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, January 30, 2008
The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine; and at the right time.--Hudson Taylor...
Tuesday January 29, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, January 29, 2008
To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us.--Dietrich Bonhoeffer...
Monday January 28, 2008
Categories: Christian Wisdom
Daily Christian Inspiration for Monday, January 28, 2008
It is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. It is as though He said, 'Learn to live in your will, not in your feelings.'--Amy Carmichael...
Sunday January 27, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Sunday, January 27, 2008
But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine desires new; for he says, 'The old is good.'--Luke 5:38-39 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday January 26, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, January 26, 2008
Jesus did not become identical to us; he did become identified with us.--Donald English...
Friday January 25, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, January 25, 2008
The love of God is like the Amazon river flowing down to water one daisy.--Unknown...
Thursday January 24, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiraiton for Thursday, January 24, 2008
The cheerful giver does not count the cost of what he gives. His heart is set on pleasing and sharing Him to whom the gift is given.--Julian of Norwich...
Wednesday January 23, 2008
Categories: Christian Wisdom
Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, January 23, 2008
God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.--Matthew Henry...
Tuesday January 22, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Are you humbly grateful? Or grumbly hateful?--Pastor Roland Smith...
Monday January 21, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Monday, January 21, 2008
We are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside...True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar…--Martin Luther King, Jr....
Sunday January 20, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Sunday, January 20, 2008
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.--Proverbs 27:1...
Saturday January 19, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, January 19, 2008
By living fully, recognizing that all we do is by His power, we honor God; He in turn blesses us.--Becky Laird...
Friday January 18, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, January 18, 2008
Do not turn away from those who are in need, but share all things in common with your brother. Your heart shall not cling to the high and mighty, but turn to the good and humble folk. --The Didache...
Thursday January 17, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, January 17, 2008
The serene beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world next to the power of God.--Blaise Pascal...
Wednesday January 16, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, January 16, 2008
I have known him all my life, and one day I learned his name.--A young Chinese girl...
Tuesday January 15, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, January 15, 2008
I live and love in God’s peculiar light.--Michaelangelo...
Monday January 14, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Monday, January 14, 2008
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.--Leo Aikman...
Sunday January 13, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Sunday, January 13, 2008
Take heart, it is I; have no fear.--Mark 6:50 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday January 12, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, January 12, 2008
You can be committed to church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.--Joel Osteen...
Friday January 11, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, January 11, 2008
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.--Amy Carmichael...
Thursday January 10, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, January 10, 2008
You are to think of yourselves as only existing in this world to do God’s will. To think that you are your own is as absurd to think you are self-created. It is an obvious first principle that you belong...
Wednesday January 9, 2008
Categories: Christian Wisdom
Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, January 9, 2008
If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem to be against us, we do not believe Him at all.--Charles Spurgeon...
Tuesday January 8, 2008
Categories: Christian Wisdom
Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, January 8, 2008
The great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.--C.S. Lewis...
Monday January 7, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Monday, January 7, 2008
Jesus did not come to make God’s love possible, but to make God’s love visible.--Unknown...
Sunday January 6, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Sunday, January 6, 2008
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…--1 Peter 1:3 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday January 5, 2008
Categories: Christian Wisdom
Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, January 5, 2008
To every toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, ‘Come to me and rest.' But there are many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them this same invitation is meant. Note well the words of Jesus.--Hudson Taylor...
Friday January 4, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, January 4, 2008
I have held many things in my hand, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.--Martin Luther...
Thursday January 3, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, January 3, 2008
Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.--Madeleine L'Engle...
Wednesday January 2, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Hold God's hand on the road of life.--St. Peter Julian Eymard...
Tuesday January 1, 2008
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, January 1, 2008
If this is to be a Happy New Year, a year of usefulness, a year in which we shall live to make this earth better, it is because God will direct our pathway. How important then, to feel our dependence...
Monday December 31, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Monday, December 31, 2007
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.--G.K. Chesterton...
Sunday December 30, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Sunday, December 30, 2007
For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it...
Saturday December 29, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, December 29, 2007
If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.--Johannes Tauler...
Friday December 28, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, December 28, 2007
A man’s heart is right when he wills what God wills.--Thomas Aquinas...
Thursday December 27, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, December 27, 2007
It is wonderful the effect of a single verse of Scripture when the Spirit of God applies it to the soul. What power would come upon the soul if we would grasp a single line of Scripture and suck the...
Wednesday December 26, 2007
Categories: Christian Wisdom
Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, December 26, 2007
We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength to do His will, waiting for the endless good which He is always giving as fast as He can get us able to take it in.--George McDonald...
Tuesday December 25, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Christmas
On Christmas Day two thousand years ago, the birth of the tiny baby in an obscure village in the Middle East was God’s supreme triumph of good over evil.--Charles Colson...
Monday December 24, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Monday, December 24, 2007
This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ.--Frank McKibben...
Sunday December 23, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Sunday, December 23, 2007
Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.--John 20:21 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday December 22, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, December 22, 2007
He was created of a mother whom he created. He was carried by hands that he formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy.--Augustine of Hippo...
Friday December 21, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, December 21, 2007
Lord Jesus, Master of both the light and the darkness, send your Holy Spirit upon our preparations for Christmas...To you we say, "Come Lord Jesus!"--Henri J. M. Nouwen...
Thursday December 20, 2007
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Daily Christian Wisdom for Thursday, December 20, 2007
With light and joy pouring out of Heaven like water through a broken dam, [the angels] began to shout and sing the message that baby Jesus had been born. The world had a Savior! The angels called it "Good News,"...
Wednesday December 19, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, December 19, 2007
For many of us, sadly, the spirit of Christmas is "hurry." And yet...the hour comes when the rushing ends and...Christmas itself is eternal.--Burton Hills...
Tuesday December 18, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.--George Matthew Adams...
Monday December 17, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Monday, December 17, 2007
Joy is the true gift of Christmas, not the expensive gifts that call for time and money....Let us pray that this presence of the liberating joy of God shines forth in our lives.--Pope Benedict XVI...
Sunday December 16, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Sunday, December 16, 2007
Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who...
Saturday December 15, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, December 15, 2007
How many times do we miss God's blessings because they are not packaged as we expected?--Unknown...
Friday December 14, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, December 14, 2007
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.--G.K. Chesterton...
Thursday December 13, 2007
Categories: Christian Wisdom
Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, December 13, 2007
Progress in holiness can best be measured not by the length of time we spend in prayer, not by the number of times we go to church, not by the amount of money we contribute to God’s work, not by...
Tuesday December 11, 2007
Categories: Christian Wisdom
Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.--Alister McGrath...
Monday December 10, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Monday, December 10, 2007
The Holy Spirit convicts of sin, man does not.--Oswald Chambers...
Sunday December 9, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Sunday, December 9, 2007
A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From whence does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved, he who keeps...
Saturday December 8, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, December 8, 2007
Let me tell you this: Faith comes and goes. But if it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will.--Flannery O'Conner...
Friday December 7, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, December 7, 2007
Thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.--Theodore Roosevelt...
Thursday December 6, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, December 6, 2007
Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.--Luke 5:31-32...
Wednesday December 5, 2007
Categories: Christian Wisdom
Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Instead of allowing yourself to be unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow. Seek goodness in others. Love more persons more--love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thought of return.--Henry Drummond...
Tuesday December 4, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, December 4, 2007
And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal...
Monday December 3, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Monday, December 3, 2007
Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow.--Theodore Epp...
Sunday December 2, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Sunday, December 2, 2007
If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will...
Saturday December 1, 2007
Categories: Christian Wisdom
Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, December 1, 2007
Are you weak? Weary? Confused? Troubled? Pressured? How is your relationship with God? Is it held in its place of priority? I believe the greater the pressure, the greater your need for time alone with Him.--Kay Arthur...
Friday November 30, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, November 30, 2007
Man knows mighty little, and may someday learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down and pray.--Henry Adams...
Thursday November 29, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, November 29, 2007
‘The Bible,’ we are told sometimes, ‘gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be.’ Nonsense! It gives us no picture at all. It reveals to us a fact: it tells us what we really are…--F.D. Maurice. The...
Wednesday November 28, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.--C.H. Spurgeon...
Tuesday November 27, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, November 27, 2007
It is not what WE do for God, but what HE does through us.--Judy Sexton...
Monday November 26, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Monday, November 26, 2007
Do your utmost to guard your heart, for out of it comes life.--Walter Hilton...
Sunday November 25, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Sunday, November 25, 2007
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.--Matthew 6:33 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday November 24, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, November 24, 2007
Desire only God and your heart will be satisfied.--Augustine of Hippo...
Friday November 23, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, November 23, 2007
In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you’re pretending or putting on. It’s got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God.--Matt Redman...
Thursday November 22, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, November 22, 2007
Yes, it is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams, the most abundant and most marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to relieve the thirst of men! Through it, God will spread His Word.--Johannes...
Wednesday November 21, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.--Laurence J. Peter...
Tuesday November 20, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, November 20, 2007
There is no work better than to please God; to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a cobbler, or an apostle; all is one. To wash dishes and to preach is all one, as touching the deed, to please...
Monday November 19, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Monday, November 19, 2007
The evidence of God’s existence and His gift is more than compelling, but those who insist that they have no need of Him or it, will always find ways to discount the offer.--Blaise Pascal...
Sunday November 18, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Sunday, November 18, 2007
Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.--Isaiah 1:18...
Saturday November 17, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, November 17, 2007
The root choice is to trust at all times that God is with you and will give you what you most need.--Henri Nouwen...
Friday November 16, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, November 16, 2007
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth…--C.S. Lewis...
Thursday November 15, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, November 15, 2007
Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it is disobedience.--Charles Swindoll...
Wednesday November 14, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for November 14, 2007
Truly, truly, I say to you, if any one keeps my word, he will never see death.--John 8:51...
Tuesday November 13, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, November 13, 2007
There are two freedoms: the false where a man is free to do what he likes; and the true where a man is free to do what he ought.--Charles Kingsley...
Monday November 12, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Sunday, November 12, 2007
To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.--Dietrich Bonhoeffer...
Sunday November 11, 2007
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Daily Christian Wisdom for November 11, 2007
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.--Matthew 23:12 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday November 10, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, November 10, 2007
"The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our soul can be satisfied."--Jonathan Edwards...
Friday November 9, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, November 9, 2007
"Reading the Bible without meditating on it is like trying to eat without swallowing."--Anonymous...
Thursday November 8, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, November 8, 2007
The Lord has taught us that nobody can know God unless God teaches him.--Irenaeus...
Wednesday November 7, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, November 7 2007
Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul. May keep the path. but will not reach the goal; While he who walks in love may wander far. But God will bring him where the Blessed are.--Henry Van Dyke...
Tuesday November 6, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!--Dorothy Day...
Monday November 5, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Monday, November 5, 2007
Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.--A.W. Pink...
Sunday November 4, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Sunday, November 4, 2007
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up!--Ecclesiastes 4:9-10...
Saturday November 3, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for November 3, 2007
To that which your heart clings is your god.--Martin Luther...
Friday November 2, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, November 2 2007
Always seek peace between your heart and God, but in this world, always be careful to remain ever-restless, never satisfied, and always abounding in the work of the Lord.--Jim Elliot...
Thursday November 1, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, November 1, 2007
Do not be angry that you cannot make others as you would wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.--Thomas a Kempis...
Wednesday October 31, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.--Augustine of Hippo...
Tuesday October 30, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Christ was not half a God and half a man; he was perfectly God and perfectly man.--C.H. Spurgeon...
Monday October 29, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Monday, October 29, 2007
"Go to the Bible to meet Christ...He is its author, its subject matter, the doorway to its treasures, the full-throated symphony of which Adam and the prophets heard just the faintest tune."--Andre Seu...
Sunday October 28, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Sunday, October 28, 2007
"Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. Why even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows."--Luke 12:6-7...
Saturday October 27, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, October 27, 2007
"The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world."--Charles Dickens...
Friday October 26, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, October 26, 2007
"Dismiss all anger and look into yourself a little. Remember that he of whom you are speaking is your brother, and as he is in the way of salvation, God can make him a saint, in spite of his present...
Thursday October 25, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Thursday, October 25, 2007
"You change your life by changing your heart."--Max Lucado...
Wednesday October 24, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, October 24, 2007
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.--John Calvin...
Tuesday October 23, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can say, 'Of whom shall I be afraid?'--Alexander MacLaren...
Monday October 22, 2007
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Daily Christian Wisdom for Monday, October 22, 2007
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."--Victor Hugo...
Sunday October 21, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Sunday, October 21, 2007
"Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus."--2 Timothy 2:3 (Revised Standard Version)...
Saturday October 20, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Saturday, October 20, 2007
Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can say, 'Of whom shall I be afraid?'--Alexander MacLaren...
Friday October 19, 2007
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Daily Christian Inspiration for Friday, October 19, 2007
Sin is like quicksand: Your own efforts only make you sink deeper. Only an outside hand can pull you out.--Unknown...
Thursday October 18, 2007
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Daily Christian Wisdom for Thursday, October 18, 2007
"Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment...but trust in GOD, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity."--Dwight L. Moody...
Wednesday October 17, 2007
Categories: Christian Wisdom
Daily Christian Inspiration for Wednesday, October 17, 2007
"If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth. And the truth will make you free."--John 8:31-32...
Tuesday October 16, 2007
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Daily Christian Wisdom for Tuesday, October 16, 2007
"Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!"--David Livingstone...
Monday October 15, 2007
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Daily Christian Wisdom for Monday, October 15, 2007
"The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination."--C.S. Lewis...
Sunday October 14, 2007
Categories: Christian Wisdom
Daily Christian Wisdom for Sunday, October 14, 2007
"And I tell you, ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds. And to him who knocks...
Saturday October 13, 2007
Categories: Christian Wisdom
Daily Christian Wisdom for Saturday, October 13, 2007
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.--G.K. Chesterton...
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