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"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit." ~D. Elton Trueblood

"God has defeated Satan through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through this overwhelming victory, God has also empowered you to overcome any temptation to sin and has provided sufficient resources for you to respond to any problem of life. By relying on God's power and...

"He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace of mind, even in the very thick of our sins. He saves us in our disasters, not from them. He emphatically does not promise to meet only the odd winner of the self-improvement...

"You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it? ~Hannah W. Smith "No soul can be really at rest until...

"In the secret of God's tabernacle no enemy can find us, and no troubles can reach us. The pride of man and the strife of tongues find no entrance into the pavilion of God. The secret of his presence is a more secure refuge than a thousand Gibraltar's. I do not mean that no trials come. They may...

You see then, that the most anyone can do is point people to Jesus as the sole source of Life. They may experience life through us, but we cannot give them life ourselves. To those bound up by organized religion, Jesus cries, "You search the Scriptures, because in them you think you have Life."...

"One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling." ~A.B. Simpson "Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. He loves every one of us, even those who...

"As for us, we have all of these great witnesses who encircle us like clouds. So we must let go of every wound that has pierced us and the sin we so easily fall into. Then we will be able to run life’s marathon race with passion and determination, for the path has been already marked out before...

"The mother eagle teaches her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. And just so does our God to us. He stirs up our comfortable nests, and pushes us over the edge of them, and we are...

"The mother eagle teaches her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. And just so does our God to us. He stirs up our comfortable nests, and pushes us over the edge of them, and we are...

"The grace of God is like: here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't be complete without you. Here is your world... BEAUTIFUL ...and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid, I am with you. Nothing can separate us." ~Eugene Peterson

"There is nothing but God's grace; we walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die upon it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe." ~Robert Louis Stephenson "Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue." ~Eugene O'Neill

Do you know who's going through a lot right now? Literally everyone. Just be kind.