Christian Quotation Of The Day

[Theresasjourney]

March 4, 2008

Our "safe place" is not where we live, it is in whom we live.

Tom White

 

[angelwind]

I believe it ought to be our continual aim and desire to go forward; and our watchword at the beginning of every year should be, “More and more” (1 Thess. iv. 1): more knowledge,-more faith,-more obedience,-more love. If we have brought forth thirty-fold, we should seek to bring forth sixty, and if we have brought forth sixty, we should strive to bring forth a hundred. The will of the Lord is our sanctification, and it ought to be our will too. (Matt. xiii. 23; 1 Thess. iv. 3.) J. C. Ryle (1816-1900)

 

[Theresasjourney]

A Christian shows what he is by what he does with what he has.

Anonymous

 

[brinny]

"Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it." ~C.S. Lewis

 

[Theresasjourney]

When He lays hold of us, He comes like the angel that came to Peter in prison in the dark and awoke him out of his sleep and said, "Rise! and follow me." It is only when we get out into the street, and have been with Him for awhile, and the daylight begins to stream in, that we see clearly the face of our Deliverer, and know Him for all that He is...It is the knowledge of experience. It is the knowledge of love, it is the knowledge of union, and it is in order that we may know Christ that He lays His hand upon us.

Alexander MacLaren

 

[brinny]

“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain” ~ C.S. Lewis

 

[StarryEyes]

Where there's God's will, there's a way.

Anon.

 

[FineLinen]

“Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a floating, cosmic bash shouting its way through the streets of the universe, flinging the sweetness of its cassations to every window, pounding at every door in a hilarity beyond all liking and happening, until the prodigals come out at last and dance, and the elder brothers finally take their fingers out of their ears.” ― Robert Farrar Capon-

 

[FineLinen]

"To say that sin, assuming it to be opposed to God, has the power of creating a world antagonistic to God as everlasting as He is, attributes to it a power equal at least to His; since according to this view, souls whom God willed to be saved, and for whom Christ died, are held in bondage under the power of sin for ever; and all this in opposition to the Word of God, which says that God's Son was "manifested that He might destroy the works of the devil..." -Andrew Jukes-

 

[FineLinen]

"In the Christian story God descends to reascend. He comes down;.... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the Nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the whole ruined world up with Him." -C.S. Lewis-

 

[FineLinen]

"The breadbox of heaven cannot be exhausted - and you should see his pantry!" -Stephen Wilber-

 

[brinny]

"Worship is the quickening of the conscience by the holiness of God, the feeding of the mind by the truth of God, the purging of the imagination by the beauty of God, the opening of the heart to the love of God, and the devotion of the will to the purpose of God." ~William Temple

 

[FineLinen]

"The breadbox of heaven cannot be exhausted - and you should see his pantry!" -Stephen Wilber-

"If the only prayer you ever say your entire life is thank you, it is enough."-Meister Eckhart, 13th C.

"I shall pass this way but once: any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being; let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."-Etienne de Grellet

 

[FineLinen]

"This is Christ's own declaration, 'I will draw all men unto me.' Therein consists its potency for men: not in Christ's satisfaction of justice by suffering a legal penalty, but in that the cross is the supreme expression of a divine spirit of love, truth, mercy, brotherhood, faith, ministry, unselfishness, holiness, - a spirit which goes out to men with divine intensity of purpose and yearning to draw them into its own sphere, and to make them partakers of its own eternal quality. This was a fact before the foundation of the world, is a fact today, and will be a fact so long as any life remains unreconciled to God. Atonement is eternal in virtue of the eternal spirit of Christ through which he offered himself to God." -Dr. Marvin Vincent-

 

[FineLinen]

"Life is not MEASURED by the number of breaths we take but by the MOMENTS that take our breath away."

 

[FineLinen]

The bells of my heart are ringing, because I know that my Lord is able to supply all our need. The storehouses of grace are filled to overflowing and the quantity is of such abundance, that it is inconceivable to these hearts and minds of ours. We deal with earthly temporal limits, while God deals with the illimitable and eternal. The measure of God's giving is always to overflowing....there is no end to His beneficence, and no lack in His inexhaustible supply. Chas S.Price

 

[FineLinen]

"God in His providence has not allowed the survival of actual physical objects. But we have infinitely more than this, for instead of dead relics, however 'authentic' and well preserved, we have a living life-line, stretching unbroken to Christ Himself. We have all the comfort and security that comes from historic tradition, but instead of being given the sad nostalgia of looking at an object and saying, 'Look, how wonderful! This is what He touches then,' we are given an evergreen memorial [in communion] which says, 'This is what He touches now." -J.B. Phillips-

 

[FineLinen]

"Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kind, equable man may turn bitter and crotchety: a man of good-will may grow cynical and callous. But nothing of this sort happens to the Creator. He never becomes less truthful, or merciful, or just, or good, than He used to be." -J.I.Parker-

 

[FineLinen]

"He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace of mind, even in the very thick of our sins. He saves us in our disasters, not from them. He emphatically does not promise to meet only the odd winner of the self-improvement lottery. He meets us all in our endless and inescapable losing." -Robert Farrar Capon-

 

[FineLinen]

"Every evening I turn my troubles over to God - He's going to be up all night anyway." -Donald J. Morgan-