In the back of my Bible, I write down quotes and comments I hear or read, then every so often I go through them to remind me of these thoughts from others. Now I would like to share them here but for most of them I do not have the name of the author, and they are in no particular subject order.
"What we believe matters because it governs how we live."
"Mercy is not getting what we do deserve. Grace is getting what we don't deserve."
"Prayer penetrates the hearts we cannot open, shields those we cannot guard, teaches where we cannot speak and comforts where our hearts have no power to soothe."
"Every Christian is unique - God doesn't have an assembly line."
"When facing spiritual depression, talk to yourself - don't listen to yourself."
"If you think you are too small to have an effect, try sleeping with a mosquito."
"Timidity is not the way forward."
"Predestination. Imagine a gate with the words 'Come to me'. When you go through the gate you read on the other side 'The Father has called you'. Always a paradox."
"In preaching the Gospel, sometimes we have to use words."
"Affluenza - where too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want in order to impress people they don't like."
"Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money."
"Atheists see a universe without a creator, purpose or meaning; a vast mystery that simply exists."
This one I can source as it comes from Psalm 92 verses 12-14. "The righteous flourish....in the courts of our God. In old age they still produce fruit." I found that refreshingly amusing as I read it this morning as, although I am not yet in 'old age' I am closer to it than my teenage years.
My most favourite prayer is found in the Anglican 'Prayer Book For Australia', A General Thanksgiving, and I will conclude with a few lines from this beautiful prayer. "We bless you.....above all, for your immeasurable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, for the means of grace and for the hope of glory."
"What we believe matters because it governs how we live."
"Mercy is not getting what we do deserve. Grace is getting what we don't deserve."
"Prayer penetrates the hearts we cannot open, shields those we cannot guard, teaches where we cannot speak and comforts where our hearts have no power to soothe."
"Every Christian is unique - God doesn't have an assembly line."
"When facing spiritual depression, talk to yourself - don't listen to yourself."
"If you think you are too small to have an effect, try sleeping with a mosquito."
"Timidity is not the way forward."
"Predestination. Imagine a gate with the words 'Come to me'. When you go through the gate you read on the other side 'The Father has called you'. Always a paradox."
"In preaching the Gospel, sometimes we have to use words."
"Affluenza - where too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want in order to impress people they don't like."
"Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money."
"Atheists see a universe without a creator, purpose or meaning; a vast mystery that simply exists."
This one I can source as it comes from Psalm 92 verses 12-14. "The righteous flourish....in the courts of our God. In old age they still produce fruit." I found that refreshingly amusing as I read it this morning as, although I am not yet in 'old age' I am closer to it than my teenage years.
My most favourite prayer is found in the Anglican 'Prayer Book For Australia', A General Thanksgiving, and I will conclude with a few lines from this beautiful prayer. "We bless you.....above all, for your immeasurable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, for the means of grace and for the hope of glory."
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