The Bible has a word to describe 'SAFE' sex: it's called marriage.
Gary Smalley
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September 2, 2003
'Not called!' did you say? Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face -- whose mercy you have professed to obey -- and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world.
William Booth
Biography
September 3, 2003
Our method of proclaiming salvation is this: to point out to every heart the loving Lamb, who died for us, and although He was the Son of God, offered Himself for our sins... by the preaching of His blood, and of His love unto death, even the death of the cross, never, either in discourse or in argument, to digress even for a quarter of an hour from the loving Lamb: to name no virtue except in Him, and from Him and on His account,-to preach no commandment except faith in Him; no other justification but that He atoned for us; no other sanctification but the privilege to sin no more; no other happiness but to be near Him, to think of Him and do His pleasure; no other self denial but to be deprived of Him and His blessings; no other calamity but to displease Him; no other life but in Him. (Considered the father of Modern Missions)
Count Zinzendorf
Website
September 4, 2003
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the hearts of people... it moistens the dry soil of the conscience, it brings about the perfect absorption of the food of good actions, and distributes them into all the members of the soul; strengthening faith, giving vigour to hope, rendering charity active and yet well ordered, and shedding an unction over the whole character.
Bernard
Biography
September 5, 2003
When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
Brief Biography
September 6, 2003
The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline -- it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Joni and Friends
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It is well to get rid of the idea that faith is a matter of spiritual heroism only for a few select spirits. There are heroes of faith, but faith is not only for heroes. It is a matter of spiritual manhood. It is a matter of maturity.
P. T. Forsythe
September 8, 2003
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
Short Biography
September 9, 2003
I implore you in God's name, not to think of Him as hard to please, but rather as generous beyond all that you can ask or think.
Abbe de Tourville
September 10, 2003
When some say they want to serve God, they mean in an advisory capacity.
Anonymous
September 11, 2003
Prayer is a choice. For us to pray to give thanks, or to voice our questions and doubts shows that we are choosing to leave an opening in our spirits. Without this opening, there is no vessel, no place into which God can breathe.
Joanna Laufer
September 12, 2003
Trouble always comes whenever we begin to take credit for any of the gifts of the Spirit, be they gifts of prayer, tongues, prophecy, art, science.... Modern medicine suffers, despite all its advances, because it has almost completely forgotten that healing is a gift as well as a science.
Madeleine L'Engle
Bonasta
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September 13, 2003
God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.
(Reuben Archer) R. A. Torrey
Biography and Works
September 14, 2003
It is in the deepest darkness of the starless midnight that men learn how to hold on to the hidden Hand most tightly and how that Hand holds them; that He sees where we do not, and knows the way He takes; and though the way be to us a roundabout way, it is the right way.
Arthur Tappan (A. T.) Pierson
Online Library
September 15, 2003
Please, Lord, teach us to laugh again; but, God, don't ever let us forget that we cried.
Co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous,
Bill Wilson
Time Magazine Tribute
September 16, 2003
There is no power like that of prevailing prayer - of Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heart-broken with remorse and grief, Jesus in sweat and blood. Add to this list from the records of the church your personal observation and experience, and always there is cost of passion unto blood. Such prayer prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.
Samuel Chadwick
Biography
September 17, 2003
Joy is not the absence of suffering. It is the presence of God.
Robert Schuller
Website
September 18, 2003
God's mercy with a sinner is only equalled and perhaps outmatched by His patience with the saints, with you and me.
Alan Redpath
Brief Biography And Bibliography
September 19, 2003
The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.
A. W. Tozer
The Works of A. W. Tozer
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September 20, 2003
Unless you have never been tempted, don't pass judgment on someone who has yielded.
Anonymous
September 21, 2003
Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.
Richard J. Foster
Brief Biography and List of Works
September 22, 2003
Open your hearts to the love God instills... God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key but to be shared.
Mother Teresa
Informational Website
September 23, 2003
When you have become penetrated with the joy of God, all of your sorrows will turn into joy, all of your trials will be graces; you will recognize your faults, you will be sorry for them, and they will be forgiven so that they may become happy faults. They will remind you only of the goodness, the tenderness, the joy with which God forgives them.
Louis Evely
September 24, 2003
To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
Brief Biography
September 25, 2003
When I was leading a home group, it began to irritate me over the period of a year, when people would ask for a "little prayer" or worse yet, they'd ask for a "little blessing". I have a huge yellow plastic bowl I use for making popcorn, which was the staple of this home group and everyone was well acquainted with the bounty this bowl would hold. On one occasion where we had cookies instead of popcorn for the snack, I asked at prayer time, "Does anyone want prayer for anything, or for a blessing in general?" A woman requested "a little blessing". I stomped out to the kitchen, got the yellow bowl and a small soup bowl and brought them both out. "Which do you want? All of God's blessings and more? Or just a "little" blessing?" It made such an impact that people started asking for a "yellow bowl" blessing.
Katherine Walden
I Lift My Eyes Web Ministries
September 26, 2003
Our responsibility [for] our sinning brother is not created by the fact that he has wronged us, but by the fact that he has wronged himself.
G. Campbell Morgan
Biography
September 27, 2003
There is a slumbering inclination toward desire, which is both sudden and fierce. With irresistible power, desire seizes mastery... a secret, smoldering fire is kindled... at this moment God is quite unreal to us...the powers of clear discrimination and of decision are taken from us... the Bible teaches us in times of temptation... there is one command: Flee! Get away from it... for every struggle against lust in one's own strength is doomed to failure.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Bonhoeffer Home Page
September 28, 2003
The greatest thing anyone can do for God and for man is to pray. You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Prayer is striking the winning blow... service is gathering up the results.
S. D. Gordon
Biography
September 29, 2003
A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.
Charles H. Brent
Brief Biography
September 30, 2003
A missionary told how she was once describing the loving character of God to a gathering of Chinese women. As she told of the Father's love, compassion and mercy with great enthusiasm, one of the Chinese women turned to her neighbour and said, Haven't I often told you that there ought to be a God like that?
Anonymous
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