He fills heaven and earth as the ocean fills the bucket that is submerged in it, and as the ocean surrounds the bucket so does God in the universe He fills. "The heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee." God is not contained: He contains.
-A. W. Tozer
You've probably heard it said that there is in every human heart a place that God alone can fill...But what the old poet was saying was that there is also in God's heart a place that you alone can fill.
-John and Stasie Eldredge, Captivating
...popular fundamentalist theology has emphasized the utility of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it... The "work" of Christ has been stressed until it has eclipsed the person of Christ.
-A.W. Tozer
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
-Elizabeth Barret Browning
Hope your wildest hopes, dream your maddest dreams, imagine your most fantastic fantasies. Where your hopes and your dreams and your imagination leave off, the love of my Heavenly Father only begins.
-Brennan Manning
...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes.
Hudson Taylor, on receiving the exact number of missionaries he prayed for in a year's time
Jesus' response to suffering people and to "nobodies" provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.
-Phillip Yancey
Jesus never tried to hide his loneliness and dependence on other people. He chose his disciples not as servants but as friends. He shared moments of joy and grief with them, and asked for them in times of need. They became his family, his substitute mother and brothers and sisters. They gave up everything for him, as he had given up everything for them. He loved them, plain and simple.
-Phillip Yancey
He has drawn you to Himself. He has drawn you with cords of love when you were not His friend, when you were His enemy.
Henry Blackaby
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Quotes on Walking With God
Friendship with God is reserved for those who reverence Him. With them alone He shares the secrets of His promises.
-Psalm 25:14
The reality of Jesus comes as a result of secret prayer and personal study of the Bible that is devotional and sympathetic. Christ becomes more real to the one who persists in the cultivation of His presence.
-Streams in the Desert
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring. He sends you a sunrise every morning.
Face it, friend. He is crazy about you.
-Unknown
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
-Jim Elliot
I have nothing too precious for my Lord Jesus. He has asked for my very best; and I give, with all my heart, my very best for Him.
- a father sending his daughter with Hudson Taylor to be a missionary in China
It is true that what costs little is worth little.
Hudson Taylor
We will hunger for what we feed on.
-John Bevere, Drawing Near
Sin is the result of a heart that is dissatisfied with God
-John Piper
The meaning of "He will give us all things" can be put thus: one day we will see that nothing - literally nothing - which could have increased our eternal happiness has been denied us, and that nothing - literally nothing - that could have reduced that happiness has been left with us.
J.I. Packer
Hudson Taylor, while grieving over two of his missionaries who were killed by a mob while in prayer:
Oh, think what is must have been to exchange that murderous mob for the rapture of His presence, His bosom, His smile! They do not regret it now. "A crown that fadeth not away, they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy." (Rev 3:4)
Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
-Brennan Manning
Man sees your actions, but God sees your motives.
-Thomas a Kempis
Religion says "Do." Grace says "Done" because Jesus said "It is finished."
-Gary Kinnaman
Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
-J.I. Packer
It is not hard for a little man to be great, but it is very hard for a great man to try to be little.
-Henry Frost on humility
On Prayer
We tend to view prayer as an aid to our lives, but God intended it to be the foundation.
-Rick Osborne, Teaching Your Child to Pray
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
-John Henry Newman
Prayer is the work to which we must commit ourselves if we are to make sense of our lives in the light of eternity.
-Terry Glaspey
Without prayer we live as temporal people with temporal values. Prayer pushes eternity back into our lives, making God ever more relevant to the way we live our lives.
-Gary Thomas
As it is the business of tailors to make clothes and of cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.
-Martin Luther
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life."
~Abraham Lincoln
On Journaling
If the God of the universe is talking to you, you should write it down.
-Judy Osborn
-Psalm 25:14
The reality of Jesus comes as a result of secret prayer and personal study of the Bible that is devotional and sympathetic. Christ becomes more real to the one who persists in the cultivation of His presence.
-Streams in the Desert
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring. He sends you a sunrise every morning.
Face it, friend. He is crazy about you.
-Unknown
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
-Jim Elliot
I have nothing too precious for my Lord Jesus. He has asked for my very best; and I give, with all my heart, my very best for Him.
- a father sending his daughter with Hudson Taylor to be a missionary in China
It is true that what costs little is worth little.
Hudson Taylor
We will hunger for what we feed on.
-John Bevere, Drawing Near
Sin is the result of a heart that is dissatisfied with God
-John Piper
The meaning of "He will give us all things" can be put thus: one day we will see that nothing - literally nothing - which could have increased our eternal happiness has been denied us, and that nothing - literally nothing - that could have reduced that happiness has been left with us.
J.I. Packer
Hudson Taylor, while grieving over two of his missionaries who were killed by a mob while in prayer:
Oh, think what is must have been to exchange that murderous mob for the rapture of His presence, His bosom, His smile! They do not regret it now. "A crown that fadeth not away, they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy." (Rev 3:4)
Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
-Brennan Manning
Man sees your actions, but God sees your motives.
-Thomas a Kempis
Religion says "Do." Grace says "Done" because Jesus said "It is finished."
-Gary Kinnaman
Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
-J.I. Packer
It is not hard for a little man to be great, but it is very hard for a great man to try to be little.
-Henry Frost on humility
On Prayer
We tend to view prayer as an aid to our lives, but God intended it to be the foundation.
-Rick Osborne, Teaching Your Child to Pray
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
-John Henry Newman
Prayer is the work to which we must commit ourselves if we are to make sense of our lives in the light of eternity.
-Terry Glaspey
Without prayer we live as temporal people with temporal values. Prayer pushes eternity back into our lives, making God ever more relevant to the way we live our lives.
-Gary Thomas
As it is the business of tailors to make clothes and of cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.
-Martin Luther
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life."
~Abraham Lincoln
On Journaling
If the God of the universe is talking to you, you should write it down.
-Judy Osborn
Work and Accomplishments
The place that God calls us is that place where the world's deep hunger and our deep desire meet.
-Frederick Buechner
The greatest work that you will ever do will be within the four walls of your home.
-Unknown
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-Edmund Burke
From what we get, we can make a living; what one gives, however, makes a life.
-Arthur Ashe
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Mahatma Ghandhi
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
-John Ruskin
-Frederick Buechner
The greatest work that you will ever do will be within the four walls of your home.
-Unknown
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-Edmund Burke
From what we get, we can make a living; what one gives, however, makes a life.
-Arthur Ashe
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Mahatma Ghandhi
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
-John Ruskin
Trials and Suffering
One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.
-Elisabeth Elliot
...contentment, a state of inner peace separate from our circumstances. Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.
-Linda Dillow
The ultimate measure of a man in not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.
-Rick Warren
It is necessary for God to use the hammers, the file, and the furnace in His holy work of preparing a saint for true sainthood. It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
-A.W. Tozer
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
-Billy Graham
Be kinder than necessary, because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
-unknown
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain!
-unknown
-Elisabeth Elliot
...contentment, a state of inner peace separate from our circumstances. Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.
-Linda Dillow
The ultimate measure of a man in not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.
-Rick Warren
It is necessary for God to use the hammers, the file, and the furnace in His holy work of preparing a saint for true sainthood. It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
-A.W. Tozer
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
-Billy Graham
Be kinder than necessary, because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
-unknown
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain!
-unknown
Life
Don't count the days. Make the days count.
-Muhammed Ali
Don't miss the magic of the day by focusing on what's to come.
-Barbara Morina
How we spend our days, is of course, how we spend our lives.
-Annie Dillard
Maybe the worst thing in the world is to believe that today is exactly like yesterday.
Gladys Hunt
The happiness of my life depends on the quality of my thoughts.
-unknown
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
-Mark Twain
Learning
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
-Norman Vincent Peale
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
-Greek proverb
Reading develops the taste buds of the mind as children learn to savor what is seen, heard, and experienced and fit those into some kind of worthwhile framework.
-Gladys Hunt, Honey for a Child's Heart
I have learned that the head does not hear anything until the heart has listened, and what the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
-James Stephen, Crock of Gold
To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.
-Pablo Picasso
The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.
-Julius Lester
-Muhammed Ali
Don't miss the magic of the day by focusing on what's to come.
-Barbara Morina
How we spend our days, is of course, how we spend our lives.
-Annie Dillard
Maybe the worst thing in the world is to believe that today is exactly like yesterday.
Gladys Hunt
The happiness of my life depends on the quality of my thoughts.
-unknown
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
-Mark Twain
Learning
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
-Norman Vincent Peale
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
-Greek proverb
Reading develops the taste buds of the mind as children learn to savor what is seen, heard, and experienced and fit those into some kind of worthwhile framework.
-Gladys Hunt, Honey for a Child's Heart
I have learned that the head does not hear anything until the heart has listened, and what the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
-James Stephen, Crock of Gold
To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.
-Pablo Picasso
The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.
-Julius Lester
Family and Children
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
-George Burns
Every child born born into this world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.
-Kate Douglas Wiggin
Sisters share that unique and special relationship that combines friend and family - a bond that is at the same time supportive and enduring. The woman who shares her life with a sister is blessed.
-unknown
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
-Fracois Rabelais
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
-Knights of Pythagoros
Children are not things to be molded but people to be unfolded.
-Jesse Lair
A real mom:
A real mom feels an enormous gulf between the mother she would like to be and the mother she perceives herself to be.
A real mom picks her kid's noses.
A real mom sometimes takes showers for the sole purpose of being able to cry - very hard - if need be.
A real mom puts dirty socks on her kids when the clean ones run out.
-from MOPS
...I've learned to treasure a geniune spiritual authenticity that is marked in large part by a person's relationships more than by his or her so called "accomplishments."
-Gary Thomas
When I count my blessings, I count you twice.
-Jewish proverb
-George Burns
Every child born born into this world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.
-Kate Douglas Wiggin
Sisters share that unique and special relationship that combines friend and family - a bond that is at the same time supportive and enduring. The woman who shares her life with a sister is blessed.
-unknown
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
-Fracois Rabelais
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
-Knights of Pythagoros
Children are not things to be molded but people to be unfolded.
-Jesse Lair
A real mom:
A real mom feels an enormous gulf between the mother she would like to be and the mother she perceives herself to be.
A real mom picks her kid's noses.
A real mom sometimes takes showers for the sole purpose of being able to cry - very hard - if need be.
A real mom puts dirty socks on her kids when the clean ones run out.
-from MOPS
...I've learned to treasure a geniune spiritual authenticity that is marked in large part by a person's relationships more than by his or her so called "accomplishments."
-Gary Thomas
When I count my blessings, I count you twice.
-Jewish proverb
Random Quotes
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
-unknown
I always carry my journal with me. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.
-Oscar Wilde
Don't cry over anything that can't cry over you.
-Grandma Bright
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.
-unknown
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
-Franklin P. Jones
How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.
-unknown
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
Sir. J. Lubbock
Sometimes the thought of a good nap is the only thing that gets me out of bed in the morning.
-Chad Osborn
A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter is not a nice person.
-Dave Barry
If there are two people exactly alike, one of them is unnecessary.
-unknown
-unknown
I always carry my journal with me. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.
-Oscar Wilde
Don't cry over anything that can't cry over you.
-Grandma Bright
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.
-unknown
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
-Franklin P. Jones
How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.
-unknown
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
Sir. J. Lubbock
Sometimes the thought of a good nap is the only thing that gets me out of bed in the morning.
-Chad Osborn
A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter is not a nice person.
-Dave Barry
If there are two people exactly alike, one of them is unnecessary.
-unknown
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