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"Humility and human come from the Latin word, humus, dirt. A human being is someone taken out of the dirt. A humble person is one who recognizes that and even rejoices in it!" ~ Richard Rohr

"The heart of salvation is the Cross of Christ. The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed...

"The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion is humility. ~Charles C. Colton "Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God." ~Andrew Murray

“If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will be blind to it.” - S. Kassem

“Parables are told only because they are true, not because the actions of the characters in them can be recommended for imitation. Good Samaritans are regularly sued. Fathers who give parties for wayward sons are rightly rebuked, Employers who pay equal wages for unequal work have...

"God is dwelling in light inaccessibly, a consuming fire of Holy Love, destroying all that resists, glorifying into its own purity all that yields. There is the Son, casting Himself into that consuming fire, whether in its eternal blessedness in heaven, or its angry wrath on earth, a willing...

"One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy to pour cold water on their enthusiasm; it is easy to discourage others. The world is full of discouragers. We have a Christian duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of...

"The reason the world is not seeing Jesus is that Christian people are not filled with Jesus. They are satisfied with attending meetings weekly, reading the Bible occasionally, and praying sometimes. It is an awful thing for me to see people who profess to be Christians lifeless, powerless, and...

"How could the Bible possibly speak of the perfect victory of God our Creator who loves righteousness and cannot bear evil, if that victory really means that He cannot bring His own creatures at last to hate evil as He hates it, but must confirm multitudes, indeed the majority of them, in their...

"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." ~Mark Twain

Wm. Wilberforce William Wilberforce led a campaign against the British Parliament to abolish slavery in the late 1700's and early 1800's. During the course of his intense efforts, Wilberforce came to a desperate place of discouragement, feeling he had absolutely no more strength to continue...

”The mill of God grinds slowly...but it grinds exceedingly fine. Wait patiently for your redemption and glorification. It will be worth the wait.” ~Lazarus Short

Preview "God's care for us is more watchful and more tender than the care of any human father could possibly be." ~Hannah Whitall Smith "Put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity, and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God." ~Hannah W. Smith

“God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. The process is the same for us who will walk within Him." ~ D. Johnson

"God's greatest attribute is not his power, though it is omniscience; not his glory, though it is burning majesty: it is his love." ~Al Bryant

An elderly teacher, with a pupil by his side, took a walk through a forest. Suddenly he stopped and pointed to four plants close at hand. The first was just beginning to peep above the ground, the second had rooted itself pretty well into the earth, the third was a small shrub, while the fourth...