God can prepare a person their whole life to do more in one day than others do in their whole lives.
Purpose
Stephen K. De Silva
Crisis will come because we live in a fallen world, a time and place where there are angry people, bad choices, car accidents, disease, and other things that stand against us. But that’s why knowing our purpose is so important. When we know why we’re on the earth, we aren’t swept off our feet when crisis appears.
Smith Wigglesworth
February 11, 2020
I refuse to be an ordinary man. You say, “Why do you?” Because I have an extraordinary God who makes extraordinary people.
Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton
January 1, 2020
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
Randy Hunt
You were created to be an instrument of God. When you are not being used as an instrument of God, neither you nor God will find satisfaction in your use. There is a word for things that are not used for their intended purpose – it’s call perversion. God created you for His own good. When you are used for bad your use is being perverted. And there is no satisfaction in perversion. Whether we’re talking about perverting sex, perverting money, perverting time or perverting our lives – there is no satisfaction in perversion.
John Wesley
He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment.
John Wesley
Charles R. Swindoll
In vain I have searched the Bible, looking for examples of early believers whose lives were marked by rigidity, predictability, inhibition, dullness, and caution. Fortunately, grim, frowning, joyless saints in Scriptures are conspicuous by their absence. Instead, the examples I find are of adventurous, risk-taking, enthusiastic, and authentic believers whose joy was contagious even in times of full trial. Their vision was broad even when death drew near. Rules were few and changes were welcome. The contrast between then and now is staggering.
Mother Teresa
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
J. R. R. Tolkien
I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Evelyn Underhill
Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not from it. He was never destroyed by his work; he was always on top of it. He moved among people as the Master of every situation. He was busier than anyone; the multitudes were always at him, yet he had time, for everything and everyone. He was never hurried, or harassed, or too busy. He had complete supremacy over time; he never let it dictate to him. He talked of “my time” “my hour.” He knew exactly when the moment had come for doing something and when it had not. A life lived in God is a life that masters time. One can see the distractions for what they are and centre down on the things that really matter. But of course this doesn’t mean that Christians do less than other people. (Look at Jesus again, and think of those people – many of the busiest you have known – who have something of this quality.)