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August 4, 2007
The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?
Jean Baptiste Racine
April 22, 2002
If you can't pray a door open, don't pry it open.
Lyell Rader
June 9, 2010
We cannot escape from our daily routine, because it will go with us wherever we go.... God must be sought and found in the things of our world. By regarding our daily duties as something performed for the honour and glory of God, we can convert what was hitherto soul-killing monotony, to a living worship of God in all our actions. Everyday life must become itself our prayer.
Karl Rahner
May 26, 2004
Who decides what is right and wrong In the world? Who has the authority to define morality for all of creation? It is not the courts, congress, the media, public opinion, the "politically correct" police, the "tolerance" brigade or even the church. The only answer has been, is and always will be Jesus Christ. You can find His opinion on a great variety of subjects in His best seller... The Bible.
Jeffrey E. Ramey
September 29, 2001
I currently live about five miles from Dulles airport directly under the flight path. Since the tragic events that occurred on Tuesday (9/11/01) I have not seen one single airplane fly over my home. Yesterday, as I drove home from work I was asking God how could such a terrible thing have happened. As I looked up, with tears in my eyes, I saw no airplanes, but I did see one lone eagle soaring high in the sky. Evil may be able to stop man from flying, but it will never ground the Spirit of God and of this great nation that soars on eagles wings. May God have mercy on us during this great time of trial.
Bryan Ramos
January 23, 2010
When I am weak, and distressed, and alone, and none to receive my tale of sorrow, none to express a word of fellow-feeling or care for me, in the living oracles of the gospel I see divine wisdom and lovingkindness looking at me tenderly, compassionately, through the openings of my prison, and I feel that He who dresses the lily of the field, and numbers the sparrows, is near me, numbering the hairs of my head, listening to my cries, in all the treasures of His grace and power. He is the same gracious Redeemer and Preserver to every one that believes in His name.
B.A. Ramsbottom
March 19, 2002
Jesus evidently felt deeply the emptiness and futility of much... religious talk. He was interested only in those emotions and professions which could get themselves translated into character and action. Words have always been the bane of religion as well as its vehicle. Religious emotion has enormous motive force, but it is the easiest thing in the world for it to sizzle away in high professions and wordy prayers . In that case, it is a substitute and counterfeit, and a damage to the Reign of God among men.
Walter Rauschenbusch
Biography
October 11, 2007
Oh! blessed Jesus, reveal yourself to my heart; soften, melt, and renew it. Consume all the dross which it contains, and transform it, wholly, after your image; that, while surrounded by evils of every name, and sorrows of every kind, which abound in this rebellious, dying world, I may enjoy the light of your countenance, and the purifying influence of your love. Fill me with your love; satiate my soul with your goodness; and make me an everlasting trophy of your grace.
Thomas Reade
February 26, 2001
In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on.
It's got to be an overflow of your heart. Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God.
Matt Redman
Heart of Worship
February 14, 2011
He [Christ] tells us plainly, and without any qualifications, that we are involved in a war in which there is no room for neutrals. Yet people attempt to evade His statement. Generally speaking, these are the very people who are the quickest in laying the blame upon God for all the sorrow and sin in the world. They argue that He could prevent it. They excuse their own do nothing attitude by making of evil's apparent predominance a ground for doubt of His loving kindness. It never seems to occur to them to look for the cause in mankind.
Hugh Redwood
December 24, 2007
Mary and Joseph, the shepherds, Simeon and old Anna, and the Magi all looked upon the babe and he melted their hearts. Jesus was a saviour born, the prince of peace and God with us. Let him melt your heart this Christmas.
John Reed
J.Reed's Christian Expositions
December 28, 2001
Lord, remove every barrier the enemy has put in place, so that the only barrier which remains is the cross itself.
Jon Reid
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 7, 2008
Faith is realizing that I am useful to God not in spite of my scars but because of them.
Pamela Reeve
January 29, 2012
Faith is remembering that the "saint" who drives me crazy is indwelt by God and precious to him.
Pamela Reeve
October 31, 2001
Why do we swim away from Him in our times of need? I believe it is because of the fact that we may not think He will forgive us. Maybe you believe that you have done to much. Maybe ran your bill up more than you can pay. But I'm here to tell you that no matter how far you have gone out to sea the Lord will not leave you. No matter how much you hurt the Him, He still loves you.
If you are thinking right now that you can't go to the Lord with something, think again. He went to the cross for us so He could be there when we need Him the most. Go to Him with what you need. Jesus is the life guard that will brave the currents and will go after you no matter how deep or how cold the water is.
Tony Rhoda
Teen Daily Devotional Ministry
May 23, 2008
Pride is the dandelion of the soul. Its root goes deep; only a little left behind sprouts again. Its seeds lodge in the iniest encouraging cracks. And it flourishes in good soil: The danger of pride is that it feeds on goodness.
David Rhodes
June 12, 2003
Look at it this way. If you choose which commands you will obey and which you don't obey, you aren't obeying at all. You are doing all the time what you decided to do.
Elizabeth Rice Handford
Joyful Christian Ministries
July 8, 2003
Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned, but all who go to hell pay their own way.
John R. Rice
Biography
December 22, 2007
You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.
John W Rice
Website
December 4, 2004
Thanks be to Thee my Lord Jesus Christ
For all the benefits which Thou hast given me;
For all the pains and insults Thou hast borne for me.
O most merciful Redeemer, Friend and Brother,
May I know Thee more clearly;
Love Thee more dearly;
And follow Thee more nearly. Amen.
Richard of Chichester
Biography
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
November 7, 2001
When we have done all we can, we must still wait for God to accomplish His purposes. As we wait, we can fix our eyes on Jesus as a companion who empathizes with our suffering and a Savior who is working behind the scenes. Difficult circumstances seem to increase our ability to experience intimacy with Christ.
Ruthann Ridley
February 4, 2002
God speaks to us through our desires, then as we lay them at His feet, He helps us sort them out and quiets our hearts to accept what He has already prepared.
Rosalind Rinker
Biography
October 21, 2009
Distress of soul and grief of heart can only bring on destruction of body. Joy alone is a healer, and ye can have it in the darkest hour if ye will force thy soul to rise to Me in worship and adoration. I have not failed thee and ye have not failed Me. Remember that I am in the midst when ye praise me. Never let any kind of anxiety crowd out thy praises.
Frances J. Roberts
March 8, 2003
No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.
Pat Robertson
May 1, 2011
The best way to know God's will is to be familiar with the Bible.
Pat Robertson
October 22, 2007
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
November 26, 2010
How do you respond when you experience suffering? Do you pray to be delivered from it? Are you angry with God because He doesn't appear to hear you or respond to your pain? Do you pull away, distancing yourself from Him because you feel rejected? Jesus responded with 'reverent submission" and because of it, "He was heard" when He "offered up prayers and petitions ...to the one who could save Him." We, too, are heard when we cry out to God. Psalm 34:17 reads, "The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; He delivers them from all their troubles."
Julie Roe
April 16, 2007
When you go to a doctor for your annual check-up, he or she will often begin to poke, prod, and press various places, all the while asking, "Does this hurt? How about this?" If you cry out in pain, one of two things has happened. Either the doctor has pushed too hard, without the right sensitivity. Or, more likely, there's something wrong, and the doctor will say, "We'd better do some more tests. It's not supposed to hurt there!" So it is when pastors preach on financial responsibility, and certain members cry out in discomfort, criticizing the message and the messenger. Either the pastor has pushed too hard. Or perhaps there's something wrong. In that case, I say, "My friend, we're in need of the Great Physician because it's not supposed to hurt there."
Ben Rogers
January 3, 2011
Jesus embodies the rule of God in which no one is beyond God's forgiveness no matter who they are or what they have done. Endowed with the presence and power of God through by John in the Jordan, Jesus comes proclaiming that the rule of God supplants all others now. When the scribes and the Pharisees chide him for eating with the traitorous Jewish tax collectors, Jesus responds: 'Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.' The answer to my parishioner's burning question [about divine forgiveness] was, of course: No, you cannot be too bad to be forgiven. You can only be too good. [For example: Too self-righteous to be humble, compassionate, or receptive to God's spirit.]
Byron L. Rohrig
Online Sermon
February 14, 2005
I ask you, Lord Jesus,
To develop in me, your lover,
An immeasurable urge toward you,
An affection that is unbounded,
A longing that is unrestrained,
A fervor that throws discretion to the winds!
The more worthwhile our love for you,
All the more pressing does it become
Reason cannot hold it in check,
Fear does not make it tremble,
Wise judgment does not temper it.
Richard Rolle
Website
April 2, 2005
How astounding the thought that He, Who is the fairest of the fair in beauty, the loveliest of the true in fidelity, the mightiest of the strong in sincerity, the holiest of the pure in sanctity, the wealthiest of the rich in dignity, the gentlest of the great in ministry, the choicest of the good in piety and the noblest of the brave in victory, "loved the church and gave Himself for it; That He might sanctify and cleanse it... that He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." (Eph. 5:25-27)
Charles J Rolls
Online Library
September 9, 2006
As a name, Jesus is more grandly honoured and more grievously hated, more acclaimed and more accused than any other. We find it imprinted over six hundred times on the pages of the four Gospels, and it is the most charming, consoling, comforting name by which our beloved Saviour is known.
Charles J Rolls
Online Library
July 25, 2004
The longer you read the Bible, the more you will like it; it will grow sweeter and sweeter; and the more you get into the spirit of it, the more you will get into the spirit of Christ.
William Romaine
Article and Biography
November 4, 2005
I am not the brood of the dust and sod, nor a shuttled thread in the loom of fate; But the child Divine of the living God, with eternity for my life's estate. I am not a sport of a cosmic night, nor a thing of chance that has grown to man; But a deathless soul on my upward flight, and my Father's heir in His wondrous plan.
Alva Romanes
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
July 2, 2003
God preserves the wicked to give them time to repent.
Comtesse de Sophie Rostopchine
Biography
August 20, 2006
Our greatest victories are won on our knees and with empty stomachs.
Julio C. Ruibal
Website
October 21, 2008
Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the tune, and not be dismayed at the "rests." They are not to be slurred over, not to be omitted, not to destroy the melody, not to change the keynote. If we look up, God Himself will beat the time for us. With the eye on Him, we shall strike the next note full and clear. If we sadly say to ourselves, "There is no music in a 'rest,'" let us not forget "there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!
Ruskin
October 18, 2003
What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little and those who are eminently holy pray much.
James Charles J. C. Ryle
Biography and Works
March 4, 2006
Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
James Charles J. C. Ryle
Biography And Works
April 5, 2007
Who can estimate the value of God's gift, when He gave to the world His only begotten Son! It is something unspeakable and incomprehensible. It passes man's understanding. Two things there are which man has no arithmetic to reckon, and no line to measure. One of these things is the extent of that man's loss who loses his own soul. The other is the extent of God's gift when he gave Christ to sinners...Sin must indeed be exceeding sinful, when the Father must needs give His only Son to be the sinner's Friend!
James Charles J. C. Ryle
Biography And Works
November 29, 2011
Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed without prayer; the daily act of prayer itself hurried over, or gone through without heart: these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual palsy, or reaches the point where God allows them to have a tremendous fall.
James Charles J. C. Ryle
Biography And Works
What would you expect? Sin will not come to you, saying, "I am sin." It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems "good, and pleasant, and desirable," at the time of commission.
James Charles J. C. Ryle
Biography And Works
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