Thursday, October 16, 2008
HOW TO LIVE
Don’t be bashful.
Bite in.
Pick it up with your fingers and
let the juice that may
run down your chin.
Life is ready and ripe
NOW
whenever you are.
You don’t need a knife or fork
or spoon or napkin or tablecloth
For there is no core
or stem
or rind
or pit
or seed
or skin
to throw away.
Tim Hansel
Monday, September 22, 2008
If you could once make up your mind in the fear of God never to undertake more work of any sort than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry, and the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and like one out of breath, would stop and take breath, you would find this simple commonsense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish. Elizabeth Prentiss
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Into all our lives, in many simple, familiar, homely ways, God infuses this element of joy from the surprises of life, which unexpectedly brighten our days, and fill our eyes with light. He drops this added sweetness into His children’s cup, and makes it to run over. The success we were not counting on, the blessing we were not trying after, the strain of music in the midst of drudgery, the beautiful morning picture or sunset glory thrown in as we pass to or from our daily business, the unsought word of encouragement or expression of sympathy, the sentence that meant for us more than the writer or speaker thought–these and a hundred others that everyone’s experience can supply are instances of what I mean. You may call it accident or chance–it often is; you may call it human goodness–it often is; but always, always call it God’s love, for that is always in it. These are the overflowing riches of His grace; these are His free gifts. Samuel Longfellow
Monday, July 28, 2008
God’s training is for now, not presently. His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. We have nothing to do with the afterwards of obedience; we get wrong when we think of the afterward. What men call training and preparation God calls the end.
God’s end is to enable me to see that He can walk on the chaos of my life just now. If we have a further end in view, we do not pay sufficient attention to the immediate present: if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment as it comes is precious. Oswald Chambers
Thursday, July 24, 2008
If there’s anything necessary to your eternal happiness but God, you’re not the kind of Christian that you ought to be. For only God is the true rest. A. W. Tozer
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Know for certain that thou oughtest to lead a dying life. And the more any man dieth to himself, so much the more doth he begin to live unto God.
No man is fit to comprehend things heavenly unless he submit himself to the bearing of adversities for Christ’s sake.
Nothing is more acceptable to God, nothing more wholesome to thee in this world, than to suffer cheerfully for Christ. Thomas a’Kempis
Easter Sunday! March 23, 2008
Love Him intensely as He deserves to be loved. St John of the Cross
Monday, March 17, 2008
To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world. Karl Barth
Sunday, March 2, 2008
I love the statement Tommy made today in his sermon, “God became the Son of man that men might become the sons of God.” Delightful!!
He was made like us in all things, that we might be like Him in all things. He opened up a path in which we may walk even as He walked. He took our human nature to teach us how to wear it. He showed us how obedience is the only way to live in the favor of God and enter into His glory. And now He comes to instruct and encourage us, and asks us to keep His commandments, even as He kept His Father’s commandments and lived in His love. Andrew Murray
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a ride!”
Author unknown (How I wish I could lay claim to the authorship of such a brilliant statement.)
Saturday, February 9, 2008
If he falls into some error, he does not fret over it, but rising up with a humble spirit, he goes on his way anew rejoicing. Were he to fall a hundred times in the day, he would not despair–he would rather cry out lovingly to God, appealing to His tender pity. The really devout man has a horror of evil, but he has a still greater love of that which is good; he is more set on doing what is right than avoiding what is wrong. Generous, large-hearted, he is afraid of danger in serving God, and would rather run the risk of doing His will imperfectly than not to strive to serve Him lest he fail in the attempt.
Jean Nicholas Grou
Friday, February 1, 2008
In the end, the only “good name” that matters is not how men feel about us, but how God feels about us.
John Piper
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Just a sweet thought to bless your heart from one of my “dead men.”
Every morning lean thy hearts arms awhile upon the windowsill of heaven, and gaze upon the Lord, then with the vision of thy heart turn strong to face the day.
By persisting in a habit of self-denial, we shall, beyond what I can express, increase the inward powers of the mind and shall produce that cheerfulness and greatness of spirit as will fit us for all good purposes; and shall not have lost pleasure, but changed it; the soul being then filled with its own intrinsic pleasures.
Henry More
