Quotes From Others

Be still, and in the quiet moments, listen to the voice of your
heavenly Father. His words can renew your spirit. No one knows
you and your needs like He does.

      -- Janet L. Weaver

Sometimes God sends the brilliant light of a rainbow to remind
us of His presence, lest we forget in our personal darkness His
great and gracious promises to never leave us alone.

      -- Verdell Davis

We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures
on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as
to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for
solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.

      -- A. W. Tozer

If our faith is not relevant to our daily life in the world and
in the parish, then it is no use; and if we cannot be Christians
in our work, in the neighborhood, in our political decisions,
then we had better stop being Christians. A piety reserved for
Sundays is no message for this age.

      -- Douglas Rhymes

Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing
heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart
to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.

      -- John Baillie

When God turns away from us because of selfishness, it is not
rejection. Rather, it is an invitation to follow Him to a place
we would rather not go.

      -- Brennan Manning

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

God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them
straight through hardship. But He leads! And amidst the
hardship, He is nearer to them than ever before.

      -- Otto Dibelius

God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we
should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double
fence before the tongue, the teeth and the lips, to teach us to
be wary that we offend not with our tongue.

      -- Thomas Watson

As sure as God puts His children in the furnace he will be in
the furnace with them.

      -- Charles H Spurgeon

God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but
for scars.

      -- Elbert Hubbard

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is
nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.

      -- A. W. Tozer

I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but
whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

      -- Martin Luther

We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds
in us.

      -- Ed Howe

We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending
love letters to the world.

      -- Mother Teresa

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen:
not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything
else.

      -- C. S. Lewis

Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the
hands of the Lord.

      -- A. W. Pink

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is
impossible to live one way and pray another.

      -- William Law

What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to
show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our neighbor who needs our
service; God in heaven needs it not.

      -- Martin Luther

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

Sin is like quicksand: Your own efforts only make you sink
deeper. Only an outside hand can pull you out.

      -- Unknown