February 1, 2006
To many women have too much leisure time for their own good. They have time for criticism, gossip, faultfinding, and complaining. They have time for idle games and lay too much attention to things of the flesh. There are other women who have too little time for the enduring things of life. They are too busy flitting about doing this and that. They have great activity and much doing, but they lack time for building Christian characters. Both kinds of women -- the too-idle and the too-busy need to take time for meditation and quiet repose in prayer to God. They need time to cultivate their souls that in turn they may cultivate their children's lives.
Billy Graham
Billy Graham Organization
February 2, 2006
He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find him the rest of the day.
John Bunyan
Online Library
February 3, 2006
Be assured that one who shall always walk faithfully in God's presence, always ready to given Him an account of his/her actions, shall never be separated from God by consenting to sin.
Thomas Aquinas
Biography
February 4, 2006
To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
Brief Biography
February 5, 2006
To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.
Brother Lawrence
Biography And Works
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The Practice of the Presence of God By Brother Lawrence Three hundred years ago, an uneducated lay cook in a French monastery discovered how to enjoy a profound awareness of God moment by moment, even in the midst of busyness and distraction. This book reveals Brother Lawrence's secrets. Brimming with wisdom and spiritual insight, this classic memoir of the devotional life witnesses to the joy available to all who will seek Him. |
February 6, 2006
If you want to follow Jesus, you had better look good on wood.
Anonymous
February 7, 2006
I'm not suggesting that we have the power to heal physical conditions with our human fingers. But I do believe there's a healing of the spirit that takes place when we touch others. There's a comfort that can't be found anywhere else but in a touch or a hug. Somehow, God's love and power is shared with others through the simplicity of our physical touch.
Amy Nappa
February 8, 2006
When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die.
Jim Elliot
Brief Biography
February 9, 2006
He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a vital gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach to Him is, in the same proportion, a degree of happiness. And I often think that were He always present to our mind, as we are present to Him, there would be no pain, nor sense of misery.
Susanna Wesley
Biography
February 10, 2006
What we know and even what we believe are not that significant if they don't show up in the way we live. Pure and simple, faith not lived everyday is not faith, it is facade.
Anonymous
February 11, 2006
You ask then how I knew He was present, when His ways can in no way be traced? He is life and power, and as soon as He enters in, He awakens my slumbering soul; He stirs and soothes and pierces my heart, for before it was hard as stone, and diseased.
Bernard of Clairvaux
Biography
February 12, 2006
You are but a poor soldier of Christ if you think you can overcome without fighting and suppose you can have the crown without conflict.
John Chrysostom
Biography
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Every Woman's Battle Promise Book: God's Words of Encouragement to Guard Your Heart, Mind and Body By Shannon Ethridge Keeping God's Word at your fingertips is the most effective way to battle the daily temptations in your life. Subtle sexual and emotional compromises can sneak into your life. In Every Woman's Battle Promise Book you'll find biblical promises supported by key excerpts from the book, Every Woman's Battle. Includes a foreword by Stephen Arterburn |
February 13, 2006
God wants to speak to us more than we want to listen. He is a God of love, and love longs to communicate.
Linda Schubert
February 14, 2006
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
William Shedd
February 15, 2006
No husband is so undying and everlasting a husband as Christ is; death separates all other relations, but the soul's union with Christ is not dissolved in the grave. Indeed, the day of a believer's death is his marriage day, the day of his fullest enjoyment of Christ. No husband can say to his wife, what Christ says to the believer, "I will never leave you, nor forsake you"
John Flavel
Biography and Online Works
February 16, 2006
It's time to stop being gripped by fear and to start gripping God.
Anonymous
February 17, 2006
If I had my choice in selecting teachers for any activity of a local church, I would not first seek those who have the greatest academic credentials. I would seek a person who is open and responsive, who loves Jesus Christ, and who is growing.
Larry Richards
The Reason for our Hope Foundation
February 18, 2006
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
Evelyn Underhill Association
February 19, 2006
On the one hand, God does a negative thing: He takes away our sin. On the other hand, He does a positive thing: He adds righteousness to our accounts in the bookkeeping system of heaven. Thus, every accusation Satan brings against us in court, the Lord throws out. Satan's prosecuting efforts are futile. He has not won even one case against God's elect and never will.
George Meisinger
Chafer Theological Seminary
February 20, 2006
Your afflictions are not eternal, time will end them, and so shall ye at length see the Lord's salvation; His love sleepeth not, is still in working for you; His salvation will not tarry nor linger; and suffering for Him is the noblest cross out of heaven. Your Lord hath the choice of ten thousand other crosses, beside this, to exercise you withal; but His wisdom and His love choosed out this for you, beside them all; and take it as a choice one, and make use of it. Let the Lord absolutely have the ordering of your evils and troubles, and put them off you, by recommending your cross and your furnace to Him, who hath skill to melt His own metal, and knoweth well what to do with His furnace.
Samuel Rutherford
Selected Letters
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Letters of Samuel Rutherford |
February 21, 2006
What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down - - that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off.
Josh McDowell
Website
February 22, 2006
I cannot pray any more. As soon as I begin, my prayers are all turned into hallelujahs. I would have esteemed it a privilege if God had permitted me to spend my remaining days in supplications for my friends; but as soon as I open my mouth, it is all glory, glory, glory!
Anonymous Christian, at a very old age, on her deathbed
February 23, 2006
Just as the sinner's despair of any hope from himself is the first prerequisite of a sound conversion, so the loss of all confidence in himself is the first essential in the believer's growth in grace.
Arthur W. Pink
Archive
February 24, 2006
God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.
William Gurnall
Online Works
February 25, 2006
Cure yourself of the condition of bothering about how you look to other people. Be concerned only...with the idea God has of you.
Miguel de Unamuno
Biography
February 26, 2006
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
Peter Marshall
Spiritual Portrait
February 27, 2006
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
Reinhold Niebuhr
February 28, 2006
Let thy desire be the vision of God, thy fear the loss of Him, thy sorrow His absence, and thy joy in that which may take thee to Him; and thy life shall be in great peace.
Teresa of Avila
Biography
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The Interior Castle By Teresa of Avila The first translation by anyone outside the Catholic church of the great mystic Teresa of Avila's most powerful and influential work. Celebrated for almost five centuries as a master of spiritual literature, sixteenth-century Teresa of Avila is one of the most beloved religions figures in history. Free of religious dogma, this modern translation renders St. Teresa's work a beautiful and practical set of teachings for seekers of all faiths in need of spiritual guidance. It also places this classic in a contemporary context, reasserting its spiritual and literary importance even after more than four hundred years. Softcover, 299 pages. |
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