Thoughts

~ The following is a quotation from the words of Dr. W. B. Hinson, speaking from the pulpit a year after the commencement of the illness from which he ultimately died:  "I remember a year ago when a man in this city said, 'You have got to go to your death.'  I walked out to where I live, five miles out of this city, and I looked across at that mountain that I love, and I looked at the river in which I rejoice, and I looked at the stately trees that are always God's own poetry to my soul.  Then in the evening I looked up into the great sky where God was lighting his lamps, and I said 'I may not see you many more times, but, Mountain, I shall be alive when you are gone; and, River, I shall be alive when you cease running toward the sea; and, Stars, I shall be alive when you have fallen from your sockets in the great down-pulling of the material universe!'"  This is the confidence of one who knew the Saviour.  Is it yours? - Advent Herald

~ Never tolerate the idea of martyrdom about the cross of Jesus Christ.  The cross was a superb triumph in which the foundations of hell were shaken.  There is nothing more certain in time or eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the cross: He switched the whole of the human race back into a right relationship with God. - Oswald Chambers

~ In Christ Jesus heaven meets earth and earth ascends to heaven. - Henry Law

~ The Easter message tells us that our enemies, sin, the curse, and death, are beaten.  Ultimately they can no longer start mischief.  They still behave as though the games were not decided, the battle not fought; we must still reckon with them, but fundamentally we must cease to fear them anymore. - Karl Barth

~ That the Potter should die for His clay is a stupendous miracle. - Lynn Landrum

~ God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. - Reinhold Niebuhr

~ Surrender the thing you fear into the hands of God.  Turn it right over to God and ask Him to solve it with you.  Fear is keeping things in your own hands; faith is turning them over into the hands of God. - E. Stanley Jones

~ Don't bother much about your feelings.  When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered.  In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you.  What matters is your intentions and your behavior. - C. S. Lewis

~ Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren. - Martin Luther

~ Nothing transcends the power of God.  Whether our difficulty is from Satan, others, self-inflicted, or experienced in the process of our obedience, it is God's prerogative to rearrange, reconstruct, reinterpret, and realign the situation to bring glory and praise to His name. - Joseph Stowell