It is not always the bad things that take us from the best. It is not just unrighteousness but our own righteousness, not just wrongs but unyielded rights that cause us to lose focus in the war and lose our life in seeking to save it. God never said, “You shall have no other bad gods before Me.” Just gods.
Deception
Isaac the Syrian
He who neglects prayer, thinking he has another doorway for repentance, is deceived by the devil.
Lee Strobel
To continue in atheism, I would need to believe that nothing produces everything, non-life produces life, randomness produces fine-tuning, chaos produces information, unconsciousness produces consciousness, and non-reason produces reason. I simply didn’t have that much faith.
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Katherine Walden
We sometimes make our prayer closets storm shelters, refusing to step out in obedience when God calls us to co-labour with him – in essence becoming the answer to our own prayer. There’s no use praying for strategy and insight if you are not willing to act upon it.
Cyprian of Carthage
The world is soaked with mutual blood. And murder, which is considered a crime when people commit it once, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse in the name of the State. The offenders thereby acquire impunity by increasing their ravaging and cruelty.
Cyprian of Carthage
Kris Vallotton
If the enemy can persuade us that the word spoken to us wasn’t really God, then we are robbed of the benefit! The value we place on the word will determine the power we will receive from it.
John Bevere
If Eve could be swayed in a flawless environment, what is our protection in the midst of one that’s corrupt? It’s God’s Word.
Moral Revolution
Fear and shame want to keep you small. They want you to be afraid of taking risks or be ashamed when a risk doesn’t work out. You have a call of God on your life. You can’t afford to listen to any voice that tries to keep you small.
Catherine Marshall
Evil is real – and powerful. It has to be fought, not explained away, not fled. And God is against evil all the way. So each of us has to decide where we stand, how we’re going to live our lives. We can try to persuade ourselves that evil doesn’t exist; live for ourselves and wink at evil. We can say that it isn’t so bad after all, maybe even try to call it fun by clothing it in silks and velvets. We can compromise with it, keep quiet about it and say it’s none of our business. Or we can work on God’s side, listen for His orders on strategy against the evil, no matter how horrible it is, and know that He can transform it.
Lisa Bevere
There were many times when truth spoke to me, but I did not listen. Often it called to me, but I did not hear it. I was too busy listening to lies. Unfortunately, if you listen to lies long enough, when truth speaks you cannot hear or bear it.