Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all...As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.
Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton
American Chesterton Society
September 2, 2002
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie Ten Boom Museum
September 3, 2002
He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.
Eleanor Roosevelt
September 4, 2002
I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me
Paul Little
Tribute
September 5, 2002
Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made.
Phillips Brooks
Biography
September 6, 2002
I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.
Kathryn Kuhlman
Website
September 7, 2002
Prayer can no more be divorced from worship than life can be divorced from breathing. If we follow his impulse, the Holy Spirit will always lead us to pray. When we allow him to work freely, he will always bring the Church to extensive praying. Conversely, when the Spirit is absent, we will find excuses not to pray. We may say, "God understands. He knows I love him. But I'm tired... I'm so busy... It's just not convenient now..." When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.
R. T. Kendall
Ministry Site
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Trusting in The Names of God-A Quiet Time Experience Eight Weeks of Guided Devotions |
September 8, 2002
Trials should not surprise us, or cause us to doubt God's faithfulness. Rather, we should actually be glad for them. God sends trials to strengthen our trust in him so that our faith will not fail. Our trials keep us trusting; they burn away our self confidence and drive us to our Saviour.
Edmund Clowney
Website
September 9, 2002
Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers [meeting] together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.
A. W. Tozer
The Works of A. W. Tozer
September 10, 2002
Bid faith look through the keyhole of promise and see what God has laid up for those who love Him. You serve a God who keeps covenant forever. Having already bathed in the fountain of His tender mercies, how can you stand on this side of eternity, afraid to wet your feet with those short-lived sufferings which, like a little splash of water, run between you and glory.
William Gurnall
Online Works
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The Christian in Complete Armour, 3 Volumes By William Gurnall It's been called "one of the most important books ever written, other than the Word of God." Now updated in modern English and abridged for easy reading, William Gurnall's The Christian in Complete Armour helps you strengthen your spiritual defenses against Satan's attacks. Fortified by solid theology, firm faith, and astute insights into human nature, Gurnall's Puritan classic will move you to prayer and deeper dedication to the Lord. |
September 11, 2002
When God comes down, He removes the immovable difficulties. When God comes down, the impossible becomes reality. God moves on behalf of the one who waits.
Anonymous
September 12, 2002
Faith is believing He, the miracle worker, can turn my stone-cold indifference into a fire of love toward certain "unlovables".
Pamela Reeve
September 13, 2002
Forgiveness brings freedom - freedom from being controlled by the past, freedom from the emotional ties to the offender, freedom from the continual inner conflicts of bitterness and hate, freedom to become whole and enjoy the fullness of life.
Jeanette Vought
September 14, 2002
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco
September 15, 2002
When we go fishing with Jesus for fish, we catch live ones and they die! When we go fishing with Jesus for men we catch dead ones and they LIVE.
Anonymous
September 16, 2002
Let the first act on waking be to place yourself, your heart, mind, faculties, your whole being, in God's hands. Ask Him to take entire possession of you, to be the Guide of your soul, your Life, your Wisdom, your Strength. He wills that we seek him in all our needs, that we may both know Him truly, and draw closer and closer to Him; and in prayer we gain an invisible force which will triumph over seemingly hopeless difficulties.
Sidney Lear
September 17, 2002
It is as if God the Father is saying to us: "Since I have told you everything in My Word, Who is My Son, I have no other words that can at present say anything or reveal anything to you beyond this. Fix your eyes on Him alone, for in Him I have told you all, revealed all, and in Him you will find more than you desire or ask. If you fix your eyes on Him, you will find everything, for He is My whole word and My reply, He is My whole vision and My whole revelation..
Anthony M. Coniaris
September 18, 2002
Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.
William Blake
Archive
September 19, 2002
The Blood of Jesus washes away our past and the Name of Jesus opens up our future.
Jesse Duplantis
September 20, 2002
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey
September 21, 2002
When circumstances seem impossible, when all signs of grace in you seem at their lowest ebb, when temptation is fiercest, when love and joy and hope seem well-nigh extinguished in your heart, then rest, without feeling and without emotion, in the Father's faithfulness.
D. Tryon
September 22, 2002
Breath in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy. Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy. Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy. Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy.
Augustine
Works and Biography
September 23, 2002
Some psychological and sociological conditioning occurs in every man's life and this affects the decisions he makes. But we must resist the modern concept that all sin can be explained merely on the basis of conditioning.
Francis A. Schaeffer
The Shelter
September 24, 2002
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
Bernard of Clairvaux
Biography
September 25, 2002
A little drop of simple obedience is worth a million times more than a whole vase of the choicest contemplation.
Maria Maddalena
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Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi By Armando Maggi, trans. The latest addition to the heroic and long-running series "Classics of Western Spirituality" sheds new light on an important but little-known 16th-century Italian nun whose near-ecstatic, dictated writings--digressive and effusive in the extreme--have an oddly modern, stream-of-consciousness feel. Scholars and historians should delight in the recovery of this rich and strange trove of mystical writing from the late Renaissance. |
September 26, 2002
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel Johnson
Informational Website
September 27, 2002
Consider Jesus. As you are crucified, watch Him handle His crucifixion. Your Lord bequeathed to you an example of the high art of being crucified. Behold how He reacted to betrayal, to lies, to false witnesses. Jesus Christ absorbed these pains, even as they added the shamefulness of being crucified in public. Humiliated, degraded, defamed, tortured and then murdered. That day he raised acceptance of the cross into an art form. He learned to accept all things from the hand of His Father.
Gene Edwards
Website
September 28, 2002
The main trouble with the Christian Church today is that she is too much like a clinic, too much like a hospital; that is why the great world is going to hell outside!... Look at the great campaign, look at it objectively, look at it from God's standpoint. Forget yourself and your temporary troubles and ills for the moment; fight in the army. It is not a clinic you need; you must realize that we are in a barracks, and that we are involved in a mighty campaign
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Martyn Lloyd-Jones Website
September 29, 2002
If the church would only awaken to her responsibility of intercession, we could well evangelize the world in a short time. It is not God's plan that the world be merely evangelized ultimately. It should be evangelized in every generation. There should be a constant gospel witness in every corner of the world so that no sinner need close his eyes in death without hearing the gospel, the good news of salvation through Christ.
T. S. Hegre
September 30, 2002
The love-slave has no pleasure like that of serving his master. this is his joy, and his very "crown of rejoicing." The love-slave is altogether at his master's service. He is all eyes for his master. He watches. He is all ears for his master. He listens. His mind is willing. His hands are ready. His feet are swift to sit at the master's feet and look into his loved face, to listen to his voice and catch his words; to run on his errands, to do his bidding, to share his privations and sorrows, to watch at his door, to guard his honour, to praise his name, to defend his person, to seek and promote his interests, and, if needs be, to die for his dear sake; this is the joy of the slave of love, and this he counts his perfect freedom.
Samuel L. Brengle
Online Article
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