When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than “I AM.” “I am that I am,” says God, “I change not.” Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point.
Perspective
Os Guiness
The Christian faith is not true because it works. It works because it is true.
Os Guinness
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Watchman Nee
If one keeps looking at his difficulties, he will surely find no hope in the situation. God does not want us to set our eyes on the mountains obstructing our path; He wants us to say to the mountains: “Be taken up and cast into the sea” (Mark 11:23)
Chuck Smith
When the knowledge of God doesn’t exist anymore there is no truth or mercy. God’s Word is our only reliable source of truth and God’s love is the only source of true mercy. We are now living in a day in which the knowledge of God is being suppressed there’s an organized effort to remove the consciousness of God from our national life. The result is and will increasingly be less truth and mercy. Deception is on the increase and heavy cruel treatment of others is running rampant.
Kris Vallotton
Denial is the fruit of fear, not the root of faith. True faith can evaluate the circumstances without growing hopeless because it sees the world through God’s eyes.
Glen Argan
Focusing on God in the present moment is an antidote to self-pity and despair. It gives one clearer vision, courage and energy in the face of life’s troubles. Such an approach helps one to avoid even the smallest tension, anger and bitterness. Attention to God’s presence dissolves them. I can help others because I am not focused on myself.
Steve Sawyer
Life is like a dot on a line that runs for eternity in both directions. Whatever is happening on that dot seems huge, whether it is AIDS, cirrhosis, getting bad grades or being lonely. But when you step back and recognize you don’t have just that dot, you have the whole line, [then] everything in that dot – AIDS, whatever, may seem horrible, but it’s not. It’s just a snap in a life of eternity.
Wally Carter
When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, “He’s so big we can never kill him.” But David looked at the same giant and thought, “He’s so big, I can’t miss.”
Elisabeth Elliot
The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
Blaise Pascal
What reason have they for saying that we cannot rise from the dead? What is more difficult, to be born or to rise again; that what has never been should be, or that what has been should be again? Is it more difficult to come into existence than to return to it? Habit makes the one appear easy to us; want of habit makes the other impossible. A popular way of thinking!