It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
We deal with God – who is Love. He isn’t a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.
If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. If you look at God you’ll be at rest.
The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I’m sure we shall see the answers to the whys.
Worries carry responsibilitie s that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes.
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog – the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.
Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.
There are no ‘if’s’ in God’s world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety – let us pray that we may always know it!
The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.
Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.
Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child’s exuberance.
In God’s faithfulness lies eternal security.
In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God.
Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.
Don’t bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.
In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.
Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown...