How comforting it is to know the Bigness of God in the midst of our deepest pain. What a blessed salve it is to our broken and wounded hearts to know that the Creator of the universe, the one who holds all the stars in his hand, carries us in his heart. He knows us by name, he is intimately acquainted with every thought, he hears every heart cry and understands every motive of our heart, and he loves us still.
Motivation
Francois Fenelon
It would be much more valuable for people to change their actions less, and to change more rather the disposition which makes them act.
Author Unknown
God is a heart reader first, and a lip reader second.
H. E. Manning
Wheresoever we be, whatsoever we are doing, in all our work, in our busy daily life, in all schemes and undertakings, in public trusts, and in private retreats, He is with us, and all we do is spread before Him. Do it, then, as to the Lord. Let the thought of His eye unseen be the motive of your acts and words. Do nothing you would not have Him see. Say nothing which you would have not said before His visible presence. This is to do all in His name.
Katherine Walden
While the Lord calls me to be wise and discerning, he reminds me often that his discernment cannot dwell in a cynical distrustful heart. With Him, there is no hidden agenda and no ulterior motive. His gifts are free for the taking but I cannot take these gifts if my hands are already full of my own weapons of self-protection. Therefore, He asks me to lay down the shields that I have forged for protection and pick up the shield of faith in their place. He asks me to take Him at His Word.
Author Unknown
Lord grant that the fire of my heart may melt the lead in my feet.
Teresa of Avila
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions — which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Madame Jeanne Guyon
God must be sought and seen in His providences; it is not our actions in themselves considered which please Him, but the spirit in which they are done, more especially the constant ready obedience to every discovery of His will, even in the minutest things, and with such a suppleness and flexibility of mind as not to adhere to anything, but to turn and move in any direction where He shall call.
Arthur Wallis
Fasting is important, more important perhaps, than many of us have supposed,…when exercised with a pure heart and a right motive, fasting may provide us with a key to unlock doors where other keys have failed; a window opening up new horizons in the unseen world; a spiritual weapon of God’s provision, mighty, to the pulling down of strongholds.
Lamar Boschman
When I worship, I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.