Julia Loren
Walk up to face your fear full on and consign even that possible outcome to the care of your loving God. Surrender to the possibility of what you fear the most. Surrender as an act of ruthless trust, knowing that God’s love will ultimately be enough to cover you. Relinquishment is the act that says, "I trust You, Jesus. And I trust that whatever You allow to happen to me or to the one I am praying for, Your love will keep us all close to Your heartbeat for now and through eternity."
Graham Cooke
Sometimes God isn't quick with His answers to our questions because He likes having a conversation with us.
Arthur Tappan (A. T.) Pierson
It is in the deepest darkness of the starless midnight that men learn how to hold on to the hidden Hand most tightly and how that Hand holds them; that He sees where we do not, and knows the way He takes; and though the way be to us a roundabout way, it is the right way.
http://www.whatsaiththescripture.com/Fellowship/A.T.Pierson.html
Chris Cruz
We spend time with Jesus to reorient ourselves in order to live our life well. This isn't about charging your battery and draining it throughout the day. We don't start to become then drained. The goal is to remain full.
Alexander MacLaren
There are diversities of operations, but it is the same breath of God, which sometimes blows in the softest pianissimo that scarcely rustles the summer woods in the leafy month of June, and sometimes storms in wild tempest that dashes the seas against the rocks. So this mighty life-giving Agent moves in gentleness and yet in power, and sometimes swells and rises almost to tempest, but is ever the impelling force of all that is strong and true and fair in Christian hearts and lives.
Hannah Whitall Smith
God is the giver, and we are the receivers. And His riches are gifted not upon those who do the greatest things but upon those who accept His abundance and His grace. ---------
A.J. Swoboda
[The Sabbath] has largely been forgotten by the church, which has uncritically mimicked the rhythms of the industrial and success-obsessed West. The result? Our road-weary, exhausted churches have largely failed to integrate Sabbath into their lives as vital elements of Christian discipleship. It is not as though we do not love God—we love God deeply. We just do not know how to sit with God anymore. We have become perhaps the most emotionally exhausted, psychologically overworked, and spiritually malnourished people in history.
D. L. Moody
God cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot.
Howard G. Hendricks
Perhaps the Spirit of God is saying to many of us today, "I want to minister through you. But before I can ever minister through you, I must minister to you." Don't despise the educational experience of your drying brook. Don't throw in the towel... Let patience have her perfect work, so that you may be mature and complete. He wants to make you just like His Son.
http://www.dts.edu/about/profiles/Howard_G_Hendricks
Matt Stinton
Peace is something you have to fight for. As converse as that sounds, there's always something trying to distract us. Focusing on things that build peace rather than fear is a constant necessity. Your mind is the battlefield, after all.