Miguel de Unamuno

Cure yourself of the condition of bothering about how you look to other people. Be concerned only with the idea God has of you.
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Author Unknown

Delays are not refusals; many a prayer is registered, and underneath it the words: "My time is not yet come." God has a set time as well as a set purpose, and He who orders the bounds of our habitation orders also the time of our deliverance.

Barbara Brown Taylor

Do not let anyone convince you that if it were really God it would not be so scary and it certainly would not hurt. Hang on with everything that is in you, even if it hurts. Insist on a blessing to go with your wound and do not let go until you have got one. Then thank God for your life, limp and all, and tilt your way home.
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Danny Silk

The experience of intimacy of being completely accepted and completely known and accepted in return is the most satisfying experience we can have as humans.  

Clark H Pinnock

It is hard to speak of any of the divine Persons worthily, since they transcend the world and tax the powers of reason. Yet it is easier to speak of Father and Son, if only because of the familiar family imagery employed in these designations. The Spirit, however, presents a unique challenge to speech. How does one render that reality that is wind, fire, breath, life—tangible yet intangible, invisible yet powerful, inexpressible yet intimate, powerful yet gentle, reliable yet unpredictable, personal yet impersonal, transcendent yet immanent?

Kelly Minter

  Faith is forged through time, experience, and hardship.

Jennie Allen

We are all hiding from each other with big fig leaves, but God says, “You could stop because I am a way better covering. I have an actual payment for all the sin you are hiding. But it will take coming out from behind your leaves. It will take humility to see that you need Me”

Annette Oden

Our time is better spent thanking God, trusting His plan, and praying as we show up and work at the task he sets before us today.

Andrew Murray

Do not try to stir and arouse faith from within. How often I have tried to do that, and made a fool of myself! You cannot stir up faith from the depths of your heart. Leave your heart, and look into the face of Christ, and listen to what He tells you about how He will keep you.

Andrew Farley

Real peace is experienced not because of new circumstances but because of new covenant thinking even when old circumstances remain.