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"Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven." ~Adam Clarke

"Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape Him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite, the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate." - Karl Barth- "Grace is the gift of Christ, who exposes the gulf which separates God...

Between the years 1861-1865 the United States found itself in the midst of a bitter civil war over the issue of slavery, and several other serious disagreements. By the time the North won the war nearly 620,000 soldiers had perished. There were many in the North who were so embittered that the...

"Justification by faith is an immediate response by God to believing faith. Being made the righteousness of God in Him is a work in progress." ~D.E. Johnson

"The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to...

"The one thing that the Bible emphasizes more than us loving God and people is that God loves us. He loves us first and most. God isn't in heaven plucking a daisy saying, I love you when you obey and I love you not when you sin." -Brian Mavis- "Define yourself radically as one beloved by God...

"People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible." ~N. T. Wright "You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the...

In the olden days of the 1980's there were rotary dial phones. You put your finger in a numbered spot on a circular dialer which clicked as it returned to its place and registered the 7 or 10 numbers you selected. It took a full 10 to 20 seconds to complete a call. Then came touch-tone phones...

"Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is for Him to fill our hearts with His thoughts, and then His desires will become our desires flowing back to Him." -A. W. Pink At-one-ment

"If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach." -Dr. William Barclay- "Contentment is the product of a heart resting in God. It is the soul's enjoyment of that...

“We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.” ~ Max Lucado “We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret...

“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...

“Jesus' favorite speech form, the parable, was subversive. Parables sound absolutely ordinary: casual stories about soil and seeds, meals and coins and sheep, bandits and victims, farmers and merchants. And they are wholly secular: of his forty or so parables recorded in the Gospels, only one...

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the Master calls a butterfly." ~ Richard Bach

"What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties." ~G. Campbell Morgan

"It is more beautiful to trust in God. The beautiful in this world is all from his hand, declaring the perfection of taste; he is the author of all form; he clothes the lily, he colours the rose, he distils the dewdrop, he makes the music of nature; in a word, he organized us for this life, and...