Friday, January 27, 2017

Thoughts

1

God is in our past; He has brought us through it.
God is in our present, walking beside us even now.
God is in our future; He will lead us safely there.
-Unknown

2

O God, who art the truth, make me one with Thee in continual love!  I am weary often to read and hear many things.  In Thee is all that I desire and long for.  Let all teachers hold their peace; let all creatures be silent in Thy sight; speak to me alone. - Thomas Kempis

3

No matter how discouraged you are about your Christian life–today, you are the best Christian many are ever going to meet! – Unknown

4

If Satan brings up your past–bring up his future. –Unknown

5

Real Christian is an odd number, anyway.  He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen; talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see; expects to go to Heaven on the virtue of Another; empties himself in order to be full; admits he is wrong so he can be declared right; goes down in order to get up; is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels the worst.  He dies so he can live; forsakes in order to have; gives away so he can keep; sees the invisible; hears the inaudible; and knows that which passeth knowledge.
- A. W. Tozer

6

Every person with whom I interact today will be affected to some degree by me.  I can persuade them, however slightly or significantly, to be kinder, happier, and more serene.  And if I happen to succeed in tipping the scales in the right direction, then I have made a positive difference in the world.- Christine Dallman

7

O God, we thank you for this earth, our home; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and the running water, for the everlasting hills and the never-resting winds, for trees and the common grass underfoot.  We thank you for our senses by which we hear the songs of birds, and see the splendor of the summer fields, and taste of the autumn fruits, and rejoice in the feel of snow, and smell the breath of the spring.

Grant us a heart wide open to all this beauty; and save our souls from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thorn bush is aflame with your glory, O God our creator. - Walter Rauschenbusch

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