Thomas a Kempis

How should your patience be crowned in heaven if no adversity should befall to you in earth? If you will suffer no adversity how could you be a friend of Christ?

Kathy Vallotton

My mind was in an intense battle to find peace as the enemy chucked terrifying thoughts into my fortress like grenades thrown on a battlefield. I often found myself ducking for cover and longing for solace. The trial was kicking my butt, and God was exposing my weakness. In the midst of my inner war, I remembered what King Solomon wrote: “The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous runs into it and is safe” (Proverbs 18:10). I felt God summoning me into His tower, and I had a deep conviction that He wanted to wash away my fears with His Word.

A Gaelic Prayer

I am going out on Thy path. God be behind me, God be before, God be in my footsteps.

Francine Rivers

In Christ, you are His child. You are raised up with Him. You are forgiven. In Christ, you are a new creation, the very temple of the Holy Spirit. You are delivered from the power of darkness. You are redeemed, blessed, holy, and sanctified. And in Christ, you will be reunited in love.

Anthony Nguyen

I am not worried about what tomorrow brings because I know my God is already there. He is already working all things out for good on my behalf. He is preparing the way and guiding my steps. God’s provision and favor is upon my life!

John Ortberg

The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God’s constant presence with ‘the real me.’ Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.

Dan Mohler

  The goal of Christianity is not to get something from God, it’s to become something because of God.  

John Wimber

God has arranged it so that we are the only Bible that some people will ever hear. If we proclaim the message of the Cross in the power of the Spirit, Jesus will do the rest. Paul wrote, "You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tables of human hearts" (2 Cor. 3:3). spiritual growth is important not only for our own benefit, but for the benefit of others who will be changed through the message we carry.

C S Lewis

A good shoe is a shoe you don’t notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need no consciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. C.S. Lewis Daily Christian Quote Website ---------

Dallas Willard

People view death to self as if it means getting rid of yourself. This is not at all what it involves. You are not put here on Earth to get rid of yourself. You were put here to be a self, and to live fullly as a self. The worth of your self – your self- is inestimable, and God's intent for you is that you become a fully-realized self as you make the grace-fueled movement from the old self to the new.