Ole Kristian O. Hallesby

When prayer is a struggle, do not worry about the prayers that you cannot pray. You yourself are a prayer to God at that moment. All that is within you cries out to Him. And he hears all the pleas that your suffering soul and body are making to Him with groanings which cannot be uttered.
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Jack Frost

How do the lost and hurting feel around you? Do they sense your compassion and concern, or do they feel devalued, shamed, or belittled?  

Tom Crandall

As we embrace our identity, we will no longer be tossed to and fro by the culture we were actually called to transform. Knowing who we are is the foundation of everything we do! We are saved because we believe in Jesus, but we are free when we believe like Jesus. By renewing our minds to align with the truths of God's thoughts for us, we will be fully equipped to transform our realms of influence and bring about change for His glory. ⁠

Kathryn Kuhlman

  The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels,

John Eldredge

We simply start saying, “I love you” as we turn our attention toward him for a moment or two. As I do so I find it helpful to recall some reason I love God: his goodness, the beauty of the world... a kindness I recently received. “God is the creator of everything I love.” Just repeat that to yourself, “God is the creator of everything I love."

Clark H Pinnock

God rested on the seventh day not because of exhaustion but in order to take pleasure in the creation.  

Vincent de Paul

Let us beware of complaints, resentments, and evil-speaking against those who are ill-disposed to us, discontented with us, or hostile to our plans and arrangements, or who even persecute us with injuries, insults, and calumnies. Rather let us go on treating them as cordially as at first, or more so, as far as possible showing them esteem, always speaking well of them, doing them good, serving them on occasion, even to the point of taking shame and disgrace upon ourselves, if necessary to save their honor. All this ought to be done, first, to overcome evil with good, according to the teaching of the Apostles; and secondly, because they are our allies rather than our adversaries, as they aid us to destroy self-love, which is our greatest foe; and since it is they who give us an opportunity to gain merit, they ought to be considered our dearest friends.  

George Macdonald

What God may hereafter require of you, you must not give yourself the least trouble about. Everything He gives you to do, you must do as well as ever you can, and that is the best possible preparation for what He may want you to do next. If people would but do what they have to do, they would always find themselves ready for what came next.
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Earnest Worker

There is no peace in the border lands. The halfway Christian is a torment to himself and of no benefit to others.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not-knowing, not-curing, not-healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.