Vance K Jackson

Before you speak, choose to listen to the heart of the matter. Before you abruptly make a move, choose to hear all the facts. Before you proceed to execute, choose to listen to wise counsel. Before you pursue, pray and seek God for His instruction.

Ronald Rolheiser

Today, a number of historical circumstances are blindly flowing together and accidentally conspiring to produce a climate within which it is difficult not just to think about God or to pray, but simply to have any interior depth whatsoever…. We, for every kind of reason, good and bad, are distracting ourselves into spiritual oblivion. It is not that we have anything against God, depth, and spirit, we would like these, it is just that we are habitually too preoccupied to have any of these show up on our radar screens. We are more busy than bad, more distracted than nonspiritual, and more interested in the movie theater, the sports stadium, and the shopping mall and the fantasy life they produce in us than we are in church. Pathological busyness, distraction, and restlessness are major blocks today within our spiritual lives.  

Dwight L Moody

I prayed for faith, and thought that some day faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, "Now faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God". I had closed my Bible, and prayed for faith. I now opened my Bible, and began to study, and faith has been growing ever since.

Christine Caine

There is often no easy, predictable path for staying the course and fulfilling your purpose. You will encounter loss, delays, challenges, discouragement, and disappointment along the way, but if you keep going, you will discover the faithfulness of Jesus. He will give you the faith, strength, courage, resilience, endurance, hope and love you need to live life on mission. Don’t give up. It will be worth it. Your labor for the Lord and in the Lord matters. 1 Corinthians 15:58 "Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain."

Matt Stinton

People will call for corporate repentance but rarely include themselves in that call. If we are to see revival, personal repentance is key. Realigning our hearts with the Holy Spirit is what the church desperately needs. We have taken our cues for how to handle disagreement from the world rather than from God or His word.

Sally Lloyd-Jones

God is my shepherd and I am his little lamb. He feeds me He guides me He looks after me. I have everything I need. Inside, my heart is very quiet, as quiet as lying still on soft green grass in a meadow by a little stream. Even when I walk through the dark, scary, lonely places, I won't be afraid because my Shepherd knows where I am. He is here with me; He keeps me safe He rescues me. He makes me strong and brave. He is getting wonderful things ready for me, especially for me, everything I ever dreamed of! He fills my heart so full of happiness I can't hold it all inside. Wherever I go I know God’s never stopping, never giving up, unbreaking, always and forever love will go too. The Jesus Storybook Bible Psalm 23

Bob Benson

He is with us on our journeys. He is there when we are home. He sits with us at our table. He knows about funerals and weddings and commencements and hospitals and jails and unemployment and labour and laughter and rest and tears. He knows because He is with us - He comes to us again and again - until we can say, It's You! It's You!

Yechiel Eckstein

Water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit. At 211 degrees, water is just hot; it takes that one degree extra to cause it to boil. When water boils, it creates steam, and enough steam can power a train. That extra bit of perseverance can be the difference between victory and defeat. So don’t give up and don’t give in. Our God is a good God, an almighty God, Who will make good on His promises.

Kathryn Kuhlman

Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.

C S Lewis

C S Lewis speaking of his conversion experience: As the dry bones shook and came together in that dreadful Valley of Ezekiel’s, so now a philosophical theorem, cerebrally entertained, began to stir and heave and throw off its graveclothes, and stood upright and became a living presence. I was to be allowed to play at philosopy no longer. It might, as I say, still be true that my "Spirit" differed in some way from the God of popular religion. My Adversary waived the point. It sank into utter unimportance. He would not argue about it. He only said, "I am the Lord"; "I am that I am"; "I am." People who are naturally religious find difficulty in understanding the horror of such a revelation. Amiable agnostics will talk cheerfully about "man’s search for God." To me, as I then was, they might as well have talked about the mouse’s search for the cat.